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16.20.170 Storing Property on Street Prohibited.

Label: City code section
  1. A.  No person may store, or permit to be stored, a vehicle or other personal property on public right-of-way or other public property in excess of 24 hours without permission of the City Administrator.
  2. B.  Failure to operate and move a vehicle or move nonvehicular property off of the block face within a 24-hour period constitutes prima facie evidence of storage and may be abated.
  3. C.  Nonvehicular property stored for any amount of time in a metered space or regulated parking zone is a nuisance and may be summarily abated.
  4. D.  Notwithstanding section A above, vehicles described in section 16.20.120 H. and I. are subject to the limitations established in those sections.
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