HomeMy WebLinkAboutORDINANCES-2012-106-O-12Effective Date: January 13, 2013 10/19/2012
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AN ORDINANCE
Amending Title 10, Chapter 6 of the City Code,
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NOW BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
EVANSTON, COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS, THAT:
SECTION 1: Title 10, Chapter 6 of the Evanston City Code of 1979, as
amended ("City Code"), is hereby further amended to add a subsection and read as
follows:
10-6-14: FIRE LANES
(A) Definition of Fire Lane: Fire lane means travel lanes for firefighting equipment
upon which there shall be no standing or parking of any motor vehicle at any time
so that firefighting equipment can move freely thereon and gain access to
• buildings, structures, fire hydrants, wall hydrants, or fire department connections
supplying automatic sprinkler or standpipe systems.
(B) Prohibitions: No person shall stand or park a motor vehicle within any area
designated a fire lane, and such violations shall be subject to the penalties
provided in this section.
(C) Designation of Fire lanes:
1. By written agreement between the city and any school board, hospital,
church, condominium complex unit owners' association, commercial and
industrial facility, shopping center or apartment complex owner, which
controls a parking area located within the city limits, empowering the city
designate and enforce fire lanes on such parking area, including city
enforcement of the maintenance of the designated fire lanes. Such
agreement shall be approved and executed by the City Manager or his/her
designee, shall not exceed a period of 20 years, and shall be recorded in
the Office of the Cook County Recorder of Deeds. The agreement shall
become effective and enforceable three days after it is recorded.
2. By the City Council, pursuant to the recommendation of the City Manager
or his/her designee, and by ordinance, resolution or written agreement, on
• any private or semi -private roads, streets, driveways, trails, parkways,
parking areas or other roadways open to or used by vehicular traffic where
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the City Council has, pursuant to a condition in a planned development 40
zoning classification, special use permit or variation or pursuant to a
condition in an annexation agreement required the designation of fire
lanes.
(D) Methods of Posting Fire Lanes: Fire lanes shall be posted in accordance with the
Illinois Department of Transportation Manual on Uniform Control Devices.
Additionally, at the discretion of the City Manager or his/her designee, curbing
within a designated fire lane may be painted yellow.
(E) Penalty: Any person violating the provisions contained in this section, 10-6-14, shall
be punished by a fine of $55 and a late penalty of $50. Each day that such a
violation occurs shall be a separate and new offense.
(F) Tow Zone: The City Manager or his/her designee, pursuant to the passage of an
ordinance designating a fire lane, or pursuant to the recording of a written
agreement empowering the City to designate and enforce fire lanes, may have
such a lane posted as a tow zone. Any motor vehicle within such tow zone shall
be subject to removal by a towing service, and the owner will be responsible for
all towing costs.
(G) Maintenance: Owners of property on which fire lanes are designated are
responsible for providing required pavement markings and for obtaining
appropriate signage at owner's expense, in accordance with city standards, to •
give the public reasonable notice of the location of the fire lane, the parking and
standing prohibitions, and that fines may be imposed by the City against
violators.
(H) Citations: City fire inspectors, City police officers, parking enforcement officers,
and/or building code officials are hereby authorized to issue citations for
violations of the parking and standing prohibitions and for maintenance
violations, as provided for in this section.
(1) Severability: That if any provision of this Chapter or application thereof to any
person or circumstance is held unconstitutional or otherwise invalid, such
invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of this Chapter that can
be given effect without the invalid application or provision, and each invalid
provision or invalid application of this Chapter is severable.
SECTION 2: All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith
are hereby repealed.
SECTION 3: This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and
after its passage, approval, and publication in the manner provided by law. •
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• SECTION 4: If any provision of this ordinance or application thereof to
any person or circumstance is held unconstitutional or otherwise invalid, such invalidity
shall not affect other provisions or applications of this ordinance that can be given effect
without the invalid application or provision, and each invalid application of this ordinance
is severable.
SECTION 5: The findings and recitals contained herein are declared to
be prima facie evidence of the law of the City and shall be received in evidence as
provided by the Illinois Compiled Statutes and the courts of the State of Illinois.
Introduced �tA'Y1bOir NO, 2012 Approved:
Adopted: �' .I�/4 '� �d , 2012 '- YLA).r , 2012
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• Eliza!th B. Tisdahl, Mayor
Attest: Approved as to form:
RoiGreene iffy Clerk W. Gra Farrar, Corporation Counsel
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