Section 2611. Parking
(A) Parking areas may be established for zoned parking whenever the mayor and city council shall consider it proper and for the safety and convenience of the public or to relieve traffic congestion and parking conditions, effective for hours from 8:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, except holidays, and from 8:30 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. on Fridays.
- Overtime Parking and Shuffling or Relocation of Vehicles to Avoid Penalties: When signs are erected on streets to give notice thereof, no person shall park a vehicle upon any of the streets or parts of the streets described in Section (2611) (B) for a longer period than so specified in the section. No person shall relocate or move a vehicle in order to avoid a violation of the parking time limit. The following action will be considered prima facie evidence of such prohibited conduct when observed by a law or parking officer: when a person moves or relocates a vehicle that has been parked less than the posted time limit from a time limited parking space and then returns to the same parking space or moves to a parking space within 250 feet of that same parking space, as measured along the street, within five minutes of the time that the
initial parking space was vacated. Such shuffling or relocating shall constitute overtime parking for the purposes of this section
(B) Two-hour parking zones are established as follows:
(1) Water Street: on both sides of Water Street from the intersection of Vine Street and Water Street to the intersection of Winter Street and Water Street.
(2) Mechanic Street: on both sides of Mechanic Street from its intersection with Church Street to the upper entrance of Dearborn Park.
(3) Brunswick Avenue:
(a) On the westerly side of Brunswick Avenue from its intersection with Water Street to a point opposite Mechanic Street.
(b) On the easterly side of Brunswick Avenue from a point 10 feet southerly of the intersection of Mechanic Street running south for a distance of 127 feet.
(4) Bridge Street:
(a) On the westerly side of Bridge Street on the bridge over Cobbossee Stream.
(b) On the easterly side of Bridge Street, from a point 30 feet north of its intersection with Water Street to the right-of-way to 35 Bridge Street.
(5) City Hall Parking Lot:
(a) On both sides of Mechanic Street Extension from Church Street to the westerly entrance to the Gardiner Savings Institution parking lot between the hours of 1:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m.
(b) On the easterly side of Mechanic Street Extension along the westerly boundary of the Gardiner Savings Bank property.
(6) Cobbossee Stream - Arcade Parking Lot:
(a) The first double row of parking spaces nearest Bridge Street and on the westerly side of the double row of parking spaces nearest to the Arcade stairway.
(7) Library Parking Lot: in all spaces in the Library parking lot except for three spaces reserved for Library staff parking and one space reserved for handicapped parking.
(8) Church Street: on the north side of Church Street from Water Street to Mechanic Street.
(9) Winter Street Parking Lot: one on the northwesterly end and one on the southwesterly end of the first traffic island nearest Winter Street.
(C) Twelve (12) minutes parking zone shall be established as follows:
(1) Water Street: a twelve (12) minutes parking zone shall be established on the south side of Water Street from its intersection with Brunswick Avenue running easterly for a distance of 109 feet.
(D) Fifteen (15) minute parking zone shall be established as follows:
(1) Water Street: A fifteen (15) minute parking zone shall be established on the southerly side of Water Street, from its intersection with Library Street running southerly for a distance of 56 feet, 2 inches to accommodate two parking spaces.
(2) River Avenue: on the westerly side of River Avenue from 200 feet southerly from its intersection with Cannard Street southerly for a distance of 40 feet.
(3) Pleasant Street: on the westerly side of Pleasant Street from the walkway to the O. C. Woodman School to the intersection of School Street.
(4) School Street: on the northerly side of School Street from its intersection with Pleasant Street westerly for a distance of thirty feet.
(E) Thirty (30) minute parking zone shall be established as follows:
(1) A thirty (30) minute parking zone effective for the hours of 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Mondays through Fridays, shall be established in front of City Hall for the purpose of conducting city business with the exception of eight spaces, five of which shall be reserved for city officials and two for the and one for handicapped parking.
(2) On the southerly side of High Holborn Street from the entrance to Central Street School to Oak Street.
(3) Six spaces in the first row of parking nearest Maine Avenue in the Cobbossee Stream parking lot.
(F) City Employee Parking Area.
(1) City Hall Parking Lot: a single row of parking spaces shall be provided for municipal employee parking in the parking lot adjacent to City Hall, which row shall be located in the southerly end of said lot abutting property now or formerly of one Harvey (maximum number of spaces thus provided shall be twelve.)
(G) Four-Hour Parking Zone:
(1) Both sides of Mechanic Street, from the upper entrance of Dearborn Park to the intersection of Brunswick Avenue.
(H) Parking spaces marked:
(1) The chief of police shall be responsible for having individual parking spaces marked in the foregoing parking spaces.
Cross references:
Municipal finance, see 1954 R.S., Ch. 90-A, ss. 12, II, A.
Parking Meters, see 1954, R.S., Ch. 90-A, ss. 3, II, D.
Pedestrians generally, see 1954 R.S., Ch. 2, ss. 126, Ch. 90-A, ss. 3, II, III.
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