§ 58-31. Definitions.

(a)

Access aisle: An area beside or adjacent to a designated disabled parking space, which is striped diagonally to designate it as a no parking zone, and which is reserved for the temporary exclusive use of persons who have disability parking permits or license plates and who require extra space to deploy a mobile device, lift, or ramp in order to exit from or enter a vehicle parked in an adjacent designated disabled parking space.

(b)

Authorized vehicle: A vehicle that has been designated by a city, county, state or other government as authorized to park within a reserved parking space, tow-away zone.

(c)

Civil penalty: An amount of money imposed by this article for a violation, which is deemed to be a parking infraction.

(d)

Clerk: City clerk with the City of Belleair Beach, Florida.

(e)

City: The City of Belleair Beach, Florida.

(f)

Crosswalk:

(1)

That part of a roadway at an intersection including within the connections of the lateral lines of the sidewalks on opposite sides of the highway, measured from the curbs or in the absence of curbs, from the edge of the traversable roadway.

(2)

Any portion of a roadway at an intersection or elsewhere distinctly indicated for pedestrian crossing by lines or other markings on the surface.

(g)

Designated disabled parking space: Any parking space prominently outlined with blue paint and posted with a permanent aboveground sign of a color and design approved by the Florida Department of Transportation, which is placed on or at a distance of 84 inches above the ground to the bottom of the sign, and which bears the international symbol and the caption "PARKING BY DISABLED PERMIT ONLY".

(h)

Designated official: A county judge, or civil traffic infraction hearing officer, or other official authorized by law to preside over a court or hearing adjudicating traffic infractions.

(i)

Disabled person: Any person who is currently certified to have any of the disabilities listed in F.S. § 320.0848, or any amended or successor statutes; and who has been issued a disabled parking permit or license plate pursuant to F.S. § 316.1958, 320.084, 320.0842, 320.0845, or 320.0848, or any amended or successor statute.

(j)

Finance officer: The finance officer with the City of Belleair Beach, Florida.

(k)

Law enforcement officer: A certified fulltime, part-time, law enforcement officer of the City of Belleair Beach, or the sheriff of Pinellas County or his designated deputies.

(l)

Official traffic control device: Any sign, signal, marking or device placed or erected by the city, county or by authority of any other public body or official having jurisdiction for the purpose of regulation, warning, or guiding traffic or for regulating parking areas located on property owned or leased by the city.

(m)

Official traffic control signal: Any device, whether manually, electronically, or mechanically operated, by which traffic is alternatively directed to stop and permitted to proceed.

(n)

Owner: A person who holds the legal title to a vehicle, or, in the event a vehicle is the subject of an agreement for the conditional sale or lease thereof with the right of purchase upon performance of the conditions stated in the agreement and with immediate right of possession vested in the conditional vendee or lessee, or in the event a mortgagor of the vehicle is entitled to possession, then such conditional vendee or lessee, or mortgagor shall be deemed the owner, for purposes of this article.

(o)

Park or parking: The standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise than temporarily, for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading merchandise or passengers as may be permitted by law or under this article.

(p)

Parking enforcement specialist: A person employed or appointed by the city manager or sheriff to enforce parking regulations who has successfully completed a training program established and approved by the criminal justice standards and training commission for parking enforcement specialists.

(q)

Parking ticket: An official form used by a law enforcement officer, sheriff or parking enforcement specialist to notify the owner of a vehicle that said vehicle is parked, stopped, or standing in violation of the provisions of this article.

(r)

Person: Any natural person, firm, partnership, association, or corporation.

(s)

Reserved parking space, tow-away zone: A parking area located on property owned or leased by the city which has been designated as "Reserved Parking Space, Tow-Away Zone" under procedures established by the city manager from which an unauthorized vehicle may be removed at the owner's expense.

(t)

Roadway: That portion of a highway or road improved, designated, or ordinarily used for vehicular travel, exclusive of the berm or shoulder. In the event a highway or road includes two or more separate roadways the term "roadway" as used herein shall refer to any such roadway separately, but not to all such roadways collectively.

(u)

Sidewalk: That portion of a roadway between the curb line or the lateral line, of a roadway and the adjacent property lines, intended for use by pedestrians.

(v)

Stand or standing: The halting of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise than temporarily, for the purpose of, and while actually engaged in, receiving or discharging passengers, as may be permitted by law or under this article.

(w)

Stop or stopping: When prohibited, any halting, even momentarily, of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or to comply with the directions of a law enforcement or police officer or official traffic control device or signal.

(x)

Street or highway: The entire width between the boundary lines of every way or place of whatever nature when any part thereof is open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular traffic.

(y)

Unauthorized vehicle: A vehicle, which has not been designated by the city, county, state or other government as authorized to park within a reserved parking space, tow-away zone pursuant to procedures established by the city manager.

(z)

Vehicle: Any device in, upon, or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway, except devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks.

(Ord. No. 06-09, §§ 1, 2, 10-2-2006; Ord. No. 18-04 , § 1, 5-7-2018)