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Home My WebLink AboutOrdinance - 77-10 - Regulation of Handicap Parking - 03/15/1977 kes/Jh 6/22477 a CITY OF EDEN PRAIRIE HENNEPIN COUNTY, MINNESOTA ORDINANCE NO. 77-10 ORDINANCE REGULATING THE SIGNING OF PARKING SPACES FOR HANDICAPPED PERSONS AND RELATING TO ENFORCEMENT OF STATE IDENTIFICATION CERTIFICATES. THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EDEN PRAIRIE ORDAINS AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Definition. The following words and terms as used in this division shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. (a) Identifying Certificates. The certificate or insignia issued to physically handicapped persons by the Minnesota Department of Public Safety pursuant to M.S.A. 9169.345, Subd. 2. (b) Physically Handicapped. Any person who has .sustained an amputation or permanent material disability of either or both arms or legs or who has been otherwise permanently disabled in any manner rendering it difficult and burdensome for him to walk. Section 2. Parking Restrictions. (a) The following parking restrictions shall apply to both public spaces designated and reserved for physically handicapped persons by state and local law and to those spaces created through the action of persons who own or are in lawful possession of the subJect property. (b) No person shall park or stop a motor vehicle in parking spaces designated and reserved for the physically handi- capped unless: (i) That person is physically handicapped or is operating the vehicle under the direction and for the use of a physically handicapped person, and (ii) Such vehicle visibly bears or contains a. proper identifying certificate. (c) Failure to obey the above provisions shall constitute a petty misdemeanor. Vehicles in violation may be removed, impounded, _ _ 7 } and kept in custody under the direction of the Director Q of Public Safety. 3 (d) In any prosecution charging a violation of the above provisions, proof of the identity of the registered owner of the particular vehicle described in the citation or complaint at the time of the violation shall create a prima facie pre- sumption that that individual was the person who parked such vehicle at the point where the violation occurred. Section 3. Designation of Location and Description of Signs. } (a) The location of parking spaces reserved for physically handicapped persons shall be designated according to provisions of the Uniform Building Code as incorporated t by Chapter 55 of the Code. (b) Notice of such designation of handicapped parking spaces shall be given by the posting of permanent, nonportable signs. Such signs shall be designed in a,-cordance with the requirements of the manual of the Commissioner of Public Safety on uniform traffic control devices and subdivision and hereinbelow. (c) No person shall cause to be erected signs reserving or designating parking space for physically handicapped persons unless the location, number and method of signing of such spaces if first approved by the officer of the Building Official, City of Eden Prairie. (d) The handicapped parking sign shall be approximately 18" x 24" or larger with a blue background and white letters bearing the handicapped insignia and shall state - HANDI- CAPPED PARKING - STATE PERMIT REQUIRED - POLICE WILL ENFORCE. f FIRST READ at a regular meeting of the Council of the City of Eden Prairie this 15th day of March , 1977 and finally read, adopted and ordered published at a regular meeting of the Council of said City on this 19th day of April 1977. ATTE64: �, 0-1 f geAij P zel, Mayor j J D. , City Clerk 7 � f /P/46lished in the Eden Prairie News on the day of , 1977. -2- „tom i0„lcyi P.kl:eatisa, t Affidavit of Publication CRY Or EDEN PRAIRIE RENNEPIN COUNTY.MIINNESOTA ORDINANCE NO.77-1a _ DMNENG OT =PARKING�SPACES TOR HANDICAPPED PERSONS AND RELATING TO EN- TTI1r1CATz CERTI CAVES TY OF MEN- ED NmPR&IRIK OORDAIN$ AS TOLLOW39 ) See Th. following State of Minnesota words and 4Med this division Shan I eSs Was” ) ss. th,, . other is car-r- County of Henn(•�Fin ) (a) The tiificiuto or'' y � to;physically Eidsts Dt►naent to Any Soo ! i 1 1 1ii.i. ;G: .1.1"t _. being duly sworn,on oath says he is and during wbo, 4q►' #ml)r1 Ms or ail the time herein stated has been the publisher and printer of the newspaper known as Eden Prairie News and has full hit_11ps let or knowledge of the facts herein stated as follows: )1)Said is printed in the E sh newspaper bass' newspaper prin oils language in ne r format otbetsl dgy in *07 and in column and sheet form equivalent in pruned space to at least 900 square inches. )2)Said newspaper is a weekly daasostl N 4 bur' and is distributed at least once a week.13>Said news paper has 50%of its news columns devoted to news of local interest to the community which it purports to serve and does not wholly duplicate any other publication and is not made up restFlatilese entirely of patents,plate matter and advertisements.r 4)Said newspaper is circulated in and near the municipality which alien ;to •1wRb spkes it purports to serve,has at least 500 copies regularly delivered to paying subscribers,has an average of at least 75%of its atM total circulation currently y paid or no more than three month.:in arrears and has entry as second-class matter in its local law at pest-office. )5)Said newspaper purports to serve the City of Eden Prairie in the County of Hennepin and it has its known the rye office of issue in the City of Eden Prairie in said county,established and open during its regular business hours for the gathering of news, sale of advertisements and sale of subscrip::ons and maintained by the managing officer of said newspaper,persons in its employ and subject to his direction and control during ail such regular busiripss hours and at (h) nag which said newspaper is printed. )6)Said newspaper files a copy of each issue immediately with the State Historical pptC Society.(7)Said newspaper has complied with all the foregoing conditions for at least one year preceding the day or antes ualewi �'�"m of publication mentioned below.)B)Said newspe r has filed with the Secrete of State of Minnesota prior to Janu.uy 1, In *W11lien- - 19 6 and sec`s January i. thereafter an affidavit the form prescribed by the Secretary of State and signed by the Is the feetlistoseOfasbysieally ` managing officer of said newspaper and sworn to before a notary public stating that the newspaper is a legal newspaper. . 1 (ilk, ofe bows or eon- i He further states on oath that the printed �u Was ate.o Shan s Ham, � hereto attached as a part r theoved hereof was cut from the columns of said newspaper, and was printed and published therein in the English langual •ic( 4 once each week. for �i C successive weeks; that it was first so publishes on i!iU r s .the 1_�+L1.1 the idept �ML i(am ' day of `j U,y 1y77 and was thereafter printed and published on every to and ofall totAplatst�p is nett' including the day of 19 and that the following is a printed copy of the lower case alphabet shau crests r tads, riles that that is RI was who from A to Z,both inclusive,and is hereby acknowledged as being the size and kind of type used in the composition and parked sueC tt"lif at thS `►hSre the motion oceataed: publication of said notice,to wit: 000#0eTU0 33 0"%Mdm e!"1)of, waittea and reserved NO_pA sally '"tcspPspaad i abcdetghlJklmnopgrstuvwiys pprraoo7lS ihI to Of �Dail[era B Code as iaSorporatieg $6TM Code. No han- dicapped ps�des given of by the po of go tasissat. "apoet�ble signs. Sndt sifts amu. ba AsUp»d In I aecora•—o w tbo m4 irsaeaits of the manual of the 4%9a missbaer of Public Safety on ualtorm h-fLe.co" "devices _ and subdialslott IiiAll ''}} —] (c)No�Per.sJ�o�ai pt)1tB'4iaus4i to Steeled Subscribed and sworn to before me this C+S akday of 19 i_, Sig" rons �p�hhhspace far eatios orsaiiber and ate hod of si){nuinMg of such Spaces V tlrst approved by the offieor of the Building Offlew.City of f Eden Prams. (d)The baadtcapped parking sign EMU be approxhaistely ig'�s 24"or larger with a tdus background and white letters heart"the handicapped Insiguls and shall r Notarial Seal) state - HANDICAPPED PARKING - STATE PERMIT REQUIRED'- POLICE Notary public, -- _ ------. County, to WILL ENFORCE. My Commission Ezpires _a).. . 19_. _91— FIRST READ at a regulsit meeting of (J the Council of the City of Eden Prairie this 1Sth dsr of Mandl W"Said finally read, adopt e4l and ord'ited published at a •""1 LORRAINL LAND reguis,meeting of the Council of said City �� _�i. r, rd;I;+RY PUBt IC— MINNESOTA on this loth day of April. 1977. 7 r ,,!{;E R COUN7; �Iottgaag Passel,Mayer ATTEST: ?9, 1913? John D,Frsne, City Clerk (Published in the Eden Prairie News on the 14th day of July, 1977) --------------