Ohio Administrative Code
Title 3337 - Ohio University
Chapter 3337-5 - Motor Vehicle, Traffic and Parking Regulations
Section 3337-5-01 - The Ohio university motor vehicle, traffic and parking regulations
Universal Citation: OH Admin Code 3337-5-01
Current through all regulations passed and filed through March 18, 2024
(A) Be it resolved that the following motor vehicle, traffic and parking regulations be, and they hereby are, adopted as the rules of the board of trustees of the Ohio university regulating and controlling the use of motor vehicles on the land and property of the Ohio university located in the city of Athens, county of Athens, and state of Ohio: Be it further resolved, that these regulations supersede and render null and void any and all motor vehicle; traffic and parking regulations enacted previously by the board of trustees of the Ohio university on September 20, 1971 and the amendments thereto enacted by the board of trustees on September 20, 1972; December 4, 1972 and September 10, 1973.
(1) Statement of intent and purpose.
These motor vehicle, traffic and parking regulations of the Ohio university are
enacted by the board of trustees of the Ohio university to facilitate the work
of the faculty, staff and students, as well as other persons, on the lands and
property of the Ohio university. In general, it is the basis of these rules
that the lands and property of the Ohio university and the use thereof are
governed by the board of trustees of the Ohio university pursuant to the power
and authority granted to the board of trustees of the Ohio university in
Chapter 3337. of the Revised Code, and
that motor vehicle, traffic and parking regulations are to be enacted pursuant
to the direction and authority contained in section
3345.04 of the
Revised Code. Furthermore, the motor
vehicle laws of the state of Ohio as set forth in Title 45 of the
. Revised Code are applicable and
enforceable upon the lands and property of the Ohio university. Therefore,
except where specifically modified herein, all applicable provisions of Title
45 of the Revised Code will be
enforced on the lands and property of the Ohio university at all
times.
(2) Definitions.
(a) General. The definitions of the various
terms used in these regulations shall be the same as those provided in Chapters
4501., 4501,, 4505., 4507., 4509., 4511,4513,, and 4549., of the
Revised Code, as presently enacted or
as amended from time to time hereafter, except such modifications thereof as
are herein made specifically applicable to these regulations and the subject
thereof, and, in such cases, the definition specified herein shall be
applicable and applied.
(b) "Land
and property of the university shall mean all lands and all property belonging
to the Ohio university and all property over which the Ohio university may have
control.
(c) "University" and
"board of trustees" shall mean the Ohio university and the board of trustees of
the Ohio university, respectively.
(d) "Street or highway" as used herein, or in
Title 45 of the Revised Code as
applicable to any part of the lands and property of the university shall also
mean such portions of the land and property of the university as shall be
improved and open for the use of, and upon which motor vehicles are permitted,
from time to time, by virtue of these regulations.
(e) "Roadway" as used herein, or in Title 45
of the Revised Code, which is applicable to any part of the lands and
property of the university shall also mean such portions of the land and
property of the university as shall be improved and open for the use of, and
upon which motor vehicles are permitted, from time to time, by virtue of these
regulations.
(f) "Parking zones"
shall mean those portions of streets, highways or roadways on which the parking
of vehicles may be permitted and regulated by the board of trustees or the
director of security of the university.
(g) "Parking lots" shall mean those portions
of the land and property of the university which shall, from time to time, be
set aside for the parking of motor, vehicles.
(h) "Parking area" shall mean any portion of
the land and property of the university which shall, from time to time, be set
aside for the parking of motor vehicles.
(i) "Faculty member".
(i) Shall mean all persons employed by the
university holding academic rank and privileges as defined and provided in the
rules of the board of trustees and the handbook for the faculty of the
university.
(ii) For the purposes
of these regulations the definition of "faculty member" shall include
administrative officers of the university. When doubt arises as to the status
of an individual the parking committee shall have ' the power to determine the
status of a given individual.
(j) "Staff member" shall mean all other
employees of the university who are not faculty members.
(k) "Student" shall mean all persons who are
registered as students of the university under any classification as to course,
subject matter, or as full or part time or special, as well as all persons who
may not be registered as students but who attend courses regularly taught as
part of the curriculum of the university.
(1)
"Visitor" shall mean all persons who are not either faculty members, staff
members, or students.
(B) Director of security.
(1) Director of security. The position of
director of security has heretofore been created and is existing as an
administrative position of the university and in addition to other powers which
may have been conferred upon it shall have the powers and authority conferred
upon it by these regulations.
(2)
The director of security may by rule:
(a)
Regulate the stopping, standing, or parking of vehicles on the roadways
designated herein as those parts of the land and property of the university
upon which vehicular traffic may be permitted:
(b) Regulate traffic, by means of police
officers and traffic control devices, on parts of the land and property of the
university upon which vehicular traffic may be permitted;
(c) Regulate or prohibit processions or
assemblages on the parts of land and property of the university upon which
vehicular traffic may be permitted;
(d) Designate particular roadways as one-way
roadways and require all vehicles thereon be moved in one direction;
(e) Designate any roadway as a through
roadway and require all traffic to stop before entering or crossing the same,
or designate any intersection as a stop intersection and require all vehicles
to stop at one or more entrances to such intersections;
(f) Regulate the use of roadways by vehicles.
No rule of the director of security enacted under these regulations shall be
effective until signs giving notice of such rules are posted upon, or at the
entrance to the roadway or part thereof affected as may be most
appropriate.
(C) Parking Committee.
(1) Parking committee. The parking committee
has heretofore been created and is existing as a duly constituted committee of
the university. In addition to other powers which may have been conferred upon
it this committee shall have the powers and authority conferred upon it by
these regulations.
(2) Powers of
the parking committee. The parking committee shall have the power to regulate
the assignments of motor vehicles to parking areas on the land and property of
the university under and pursuant to these regulations and to orders of the
board of trustees of the university from time to time given. The parking
committee shall have such other and further powers as ape specifically
conferred upon it from time to time by the board of trustees by order and by
direction through the president of the university or by virtue of these
regulations.
(D) Vehicular traffic regulations.
(1) Vehicular
traffic and parking prohibited. All vehicular traffic is prohibited, and no
person shall drive, operate or control, park, or otherwise use a motor vehicle
upon the land and property of the university, except in the places and areas,
and in the manner subject to the provisions of the regulations and rules of the
board of trustees, the director of security or the parking committee as
hereinafter provided or may be hereafter provided.
(2) Vehicular traffic permitted.
(a) Vehicular traffic shall be permitted on
certain roadways which have been improved and designed for vehicular traffic
and which are designated and located on a map of such land and property of the
university, a copy of which is attached hereto and made a part hereof, as
follows: (See "AppendixA")
(b) Drives and roadways located in the east
green area as indicated on said map and known as East Green drive and Edgehill
drive. These drives are' restricted to service vehicles only.
(c) Roadway running in a southerly direction
from Mill /street parallel toB&O railroad as indicated on said map and known as
McKinley avenue.
(d) Roadway to
Lakeview community center known as South Green drive as indicated on said
map.
(e) Drives and roadways
located in the south green area as indicated on said, map and known as South
Green drive and Melson/drive.
(f)
Drives and roadways, unnamed, located in Mill street married student apartment
and Scott quadrangle areas.
(g) All
or portions of McKinley avenue, Van
Vorhes, Race, Poplar, Pearl, Wolfe, University Terrace and East Mulberry
Streets, as indicated on said map. Certain roadways in the area have been
designated and marked as one-way roadways and all traffic shall move in one
direction only.
(h) Drives adjacent
to Music hall and Hudson health center, unnamed, but marked on said
map.
(i) Drives and roadways
located in the west green area and adjacent athletic fields, as indicated on
said map arid known as West Green drive and Oxbow /trail. Certain roadways in
the west green area have been designated and marked as one-way roadways and all
traffic shall move in one direction only.
(j) Drives and roadways located in the area
of Porter hall, Grover center, Bird arena and Peden stadium as indicated on
said map and known as Oxbow trail, Sycamore drive and South Green
drive.
(k) Drives and roadways in
the are of the power plant, food service and laundry buildings as indicated on
said map and known as Oxbow trail.
(l) Vehicular traffic on East Green street
and portions of East Mulberry street is restricted to vehicles used in
connection with service to the physical plant or equipment and all other
vehicular traffic is prohibited. Such roadways may be opened to all vehicular
traffic from time to time as the director of security may deem
necessary.
(m) From time to time,
and subject to the rule of the director of security, other areas of the land
and property of the university may be opened to vehicular traffic under the
control and direction of police officers and other employees designated by the
director of security.
(3) Ohio motor vehicle laws and traffic
regulations applicable. Whenever and wherever vehicular traffic is permitted,
or whenever and wherever any person is permitted to drive, operate, or control,
park, or otherwise use a vehicle upon the land and property of the university,
the provisions of Title 45 of the Revised Code, as presently enacted or as
amended hereafter from time to time, shall be applicable and enforced, except
where herein specifically modified.
(4) Speed limits. All the said roadways and
streets and highways designated for vehicular traffic on the land and property
of the university are hereby declared to be school zones as designated in
chapter 4511; of the,
Revised Code, and prima facie speed
limit thereon shall be twenty miles per hour.
(5) Two-three wheeled vehicles. Two and three
wheeled motor vehicles and motorized bicycles are prohibited from operating
and/or parking on university property except in those areas specifically
designated for the parking of such vehicles. Such type vehicles may travel over
certain streets, or portions of streets, on university property. Streets closed
to this type vehicle are posted with appropriate signs and are generally in the
residence hall areas.
(E) Parking regulations.
(1) Parking prohibited. Ho person shall park
any motor vehicle or let any motor vehicle stop or stand on the land and
property of the university except in areas and at the times and under the
conditions set out in these regulations or by order of the board of trustees,
the director of security or the parking committee.
(2) Parking permitted.
(a) Parking of motor vehicles may be
permitted by rule of the director of security or the parking committee approved
by the board of trustees in and on the following areas of the land and property
of the university as designated on the map of said lands and property of the
university.
(b) On roadways.
Parking may be permitted on roadways where vehicular traffic is permitted by
marking areas at the curb or edge of said roadways or by posting of signs at
the entrance of said roadways pursuant to order of the director of security. No
person shall stand or park a vehicle along side any section or portion of a
curb officially painted yellow to prohibit parking.
(c) On parking lots. Parking may be permitted
on parking lots designated on the aforesaid map (attached here to "appendix
A").
(i)
In the college green area adjacent to Seigfred hall; Hudson health center;
Tupper half; Gordy hall; Scott quadrangle; Copeland hall; Morton hall and
Bentley hall.
(ii) In the west
green area adjacent to Porter hall; Bird arena; Grover center; Peden stadium
and convocation center.
(iii) Areas
adjacent to Baning hall, the power plant, service shops, garage and
administrative annex.
(iv) In the
east green area adjacent to McCracken hall, the Wolfe street apartments,
Clippinger building and Morton mathematics building.
(v) In the south green area adjacent to the
south green dormitory complex, north of Lakeview apartments and the Mill street
apartments.
(3) Parking lots and areas.
(a) The parking committee is empowered to
divide the available parking areas on the land and property of the university
into areas and permit parking by persons therein as follows.
(b) Faculty parking areas. Faculty parking
areas may consist of areas along roadways and certain parking lots, and the
same shall be reserved for faculty members and certain staff members.
(c) Faculty and staff parking areas. Faculty
and staff parking areas may consist of areas along roadways and certain parking
lots and shall be reserved for faculty members and staff members.
(d) Student parking lots. Student parking
areas shall be parking areas reserved for students and certain faculty and
staff members.
(e) Pay parking
facilities. Certain parking areas may be designated as pay parking facilities
and a schedule of fees for parking shall be established, for such parking.
Parking in such areas may be open to all persons, or limited by the parking
committee.
(f) Visitor parking
areas. Visitor parking areas shall be areas that have been designated and
marked for visitor parking.
(g)
Athletics parking. Parking of motor vehicles while drivers or operators thereof
attend football games or other athletic events on the land and property of the
university may be permitted under such regulations and controls and for such
fees as the division of athletics may establish subject to the approval of the
parking committee and appropriate administrative officers.
(h) Signs. Wherever the parking committee or
the director of security makes or promulgates a rule providing that any area be
limited to certain parking, said rule shall be effective when proper sighs
giving notice that parking is limited to certain persons or times have been
erected in the area, or police officers or parking personnel are present and
directing parking and traffic thereto and therefrom.
(4) Registration of vehicles and permits
required. No faculty member, staff member, or student shall drive, operate or
control, park, let stand, or otherwise use a motor vehicle on the land and
property of the university, even where permitted by these regulations, without
first registering said motor vehicle with the director of security or his
designee and obtaining a permit therefrom for the parking of said vehicle in a
designated parking area. Visitors shall not be required to register or to
obtain permits, but shall be required to park in designated areas and pay any
fees required.
(F) Faculty and staff registration.
(1)
Registration and application. Registration of motor vehicles as required herein
shall be made on forms prescribed and seeking information required by the
parking committee.
(2) Permits.
Parking permits shall be issued to applicants in accordance with the particular
classification of the applicant, and the criteria for such issuance established
by rule of the parking committee. Such permits shall be evidenced by a decal to
be placed upon the motor vehicle so registered in accordance with the rules
prescribed by the director of security.
(3) Permit year. Such permits, when issued,
shall expire on the first of September next ensuing after issuance and shall be void
thereafter.
(4) Additional motor
vehicles. A registrant who has already registered and obtained a permit for a
motor vehicle may register and obtain permits for additional vehicles, which he
may be using on the land and property of the university, upon registration
thereof. It is expressly provided, however, that only one of the said motor
vehicles shall be used on land and property of the university at any one
time.
(5) Special permits. Special
permits, allowing the holders thereof to park in areas other than those for
which they already hold permits or are entitled to park under the rules of the
parking committee may be issued in accordance with procedures established by
rule of the parking committee and shall be effective for the period specified
by the parking committee. Such permits may be issued after a showing generally
of one or more of the following conditions:
(a) Proof of physical disability to the
satisfaction of the parking committee.
(b) Official university duties or special
working conditions that might indicate such special permit should be
granted.
(c) Such other special
conditions approved by the parking committee.
(6) Fees at parking facilities. Parking in
pay parking facilities, which are or may be established as provided in
paragraph (E)(3)(c) hereof, shall be at the rates established from time to time
by the appropriate administrative officers and/or university
committees.
(G) Student registration.
(1) Registration. No student
shall drive, operate or control, park, let stand, or otherwise use a motor
vehicle on the land and property of the university without first registering
said motor vehicle with the director of security or his designee. This
regulation includes student owned vehicles, vehicles belonging to parents or.-
relatives (including wives or husbands), vehicles belonging to friends, rental
agencies, and dealers. This regulation applies to any student driving a family
car registered in the name of the faculty or staff member.
(2) Decals. Registration decals shall be
issued to students by the security division upon the filing of the registration
form.
(3) Decal year. Such decals
when issued shall expire on the first of September next ensuing after issuance and shall be void
thereafter^ Summer permits shall expire on the September 1st after issuance and
shall be void thereafter.
(4)
Special decals. Special decals, allowing holders thereof to park in areas other
than those designated as student parking areas or other areas to which they are
entitled to park under the rules set forth herein may be issued in accordance
with procedures established by rule of the parking committee.
(H) Display of decals.
(1) Decals for the current decal year, when
issued, shall be affixed to the motor vehicle for which issued on the day of
issue and no registrant shall fail to do so. Bumper type decals shall be
displayed on the driver's side of the motor vehicle. Windshield type decals
shall be displayed in the lower right hand corner (passenger side) of the
windshield.
(2) Permits for rental
parking spaces must be displayed as provided in paragraph (H)(l)
hereof.
(3) Parking outside
designated areas. No person shall park a motor vehicle on the land and property
of the university outside the designated area for which he has a permit issued
pursuant to these regulations or in which he may be permitted to park such a
vehicle in accordance with these regulations. No person permitted to park in a
metered area pursuant to these regulations shall park a motor vehicle in such
area longer than the time for which he has paid a fee. No person parking in a
rental parking facility shall fail or refuse to pay the prescribed fee
therefor.
(4) Regulated parking
times. Parking shall be permitted in areas designated herein only at the
following times and under the following conditions.
(a) Parking regulations shall be enforced at
all times whether university classes are in session or not.
(b) From the hours of
six a.m. to four p.m. Monday through Friday, parking shall
be limited to designated permit zones. From four p.m to six a.m Monday through Friday and all day on
Saturday and Sunday faculty and staff permit holders may park in any lot except
lot two.
(c) Student parking in
areas other than garages, shall be limited to certain areas designated by the
parking committee and shall be permitted only after payment of the prescribed
fee for such parking as provided in paragraphs (E)(3)(e) and (F)(6). Permits
for parking must be displayed as provided in paragraph (H)(l) hereof.
(d) Student parking as provided in (H)(4)(c)
hereof shall be restricted to students of junior, senior and graduate student
rank, married and commuter students. A commuter student is defined as one who
resides outside the corporate limits of the city of Athens.
(e) On days of home football games there
shall be no parking of vehicles in the stadium area after
three a.m. except as permitted, and at
the fees prescribed by the division of athletics.
(f) Parking on the roadways and designated
areas of the west green, south green, and parking areatwenty six, shall be limited to thirty minutes
between the hours of eight a.m. and
twelve midnight. No parking is
permitted on these roadways between twelve midnight and eight a.m.
(g) Registered student vehicles will be
permitted to park, without fee, between the hours of three p.m and three a.m. weekdays; eight a.m. Saturday to
three a.m. Sunday and
eight a.m. Sunday to
three a.m. Monday in parking areas
eighteen, nineteen, twenty, twenty-four, twenty-five, twenty-seven and
twenty-nine. Between the hours of three
p.m. and three a.m. weekdays
eight a.m. Saturday to
three a.m. Sunday; and
eight a.m, Sunday tothree a.m. Monday registered student vehicles
may park without fee, in parking areas fifteen, twenty-two and twenty-six. (See
"Appendix A"
(h) No student or visitor parking will be
permitted after midnight on university property, except in rental garages,
married student parking areas and as provided in paragraph (H)(4)(g) hereof,
without permission of the parking committee and/or the" director of
security.
(i) Certain parking
areas, by rule of the parking committee, made from time to time, may be
reserved for parking only by faculty members and staff members at all times or
at special times. In the event such rules are promulgated, said rules shall be
effective upon the placement of signs giving notice of such reservation and
limitation on parking at the parking areas so selected.
(5) Parking at short courses, workshops, and
conference meetings. The director of security shall establish rules by which
arrangements shall be made to provide parking for visitors who are invited to
attend and take part in short courses, workshops, and other conference
meetings. In general, said rules shall provide that individuals or departments
planning and arranging such meetings shall inform the director of security at
least ten days prior to the commencement of the scheduled event, as to the
location of the event, the number of persons involved, the approximate number
of vehicles involved, and such other information requested. Upon receipt of the
said information, arrangements shall be made to provide parking areas for the
persons participating, and appropriate permits will be issued designating the
areas in which those persons shall park their vehicles.
(I) Procedure.
(1) Police powers. The director of security
and his officers are authorized and directed to enforce these regulations by
arrest on sight of anyone found violating the laws and regulations of the state
of Ohio or these regulations, or, in the alternative, to serve notice of such
violations either upon the person found violating the same or upon the motor
vehicle found in violation of the same. Said notices, if served, shall provide
notice of the violation claimed, the location of the violation, and the time of
the violation. Such notices, if served, may be of the type and form requiring
the appearance in the proper court of this state of the person responsible for
the violation or responsible for the vehicle found in violation. Disposition of
this type notice shall follow rules of the court.
(2) Election to pay penalty. A person upon
whom such notice is served or the owner of a vehicle upon which such notice is
served, may, if he elects to do so within ten days of service of such notice
pay the penalty for such violation so prescribed in order to avoid further
prosecution for such violation. Such penalties shall be paid to the office of
the cashier of the university at such hours and at such places as the cashier
shall by rule prescribe. If such payment of the prescribed penalty is made,
further prosecution of such violation shall be waived by the
university.
(3) Election for appeal
of notice.
(a) Any person upon whom or upon
whose motor vehicle a notice of violation has been served may, within ten days
of such service elect to file an appeal on the service of the notice or on the
merits of the claimed violation, by filing such appeal on a form prescribed by,
and pursuant to procedures established by, the director of security. Said form
shall contain, among other things, identification of the violation notice and
any facts pertinent to the merits of the calim on which the applicant bases his
appeal.
(b) Consideration of
appeals. All appeals shall be considered by the parking committee and shall
follow procedures prescribed by rule of the parking committee.
(c) Subject matter of appeal. Such appeals as
may be filed hereunder shall be directed only to the merits of service of the
violation notice or whether such violation as claimed was committed by the
person upon whom, or by the motor vehicle upon which, the violations notice was
served. In such appeals, the director of security shall present a prima facie
case of service and of the violation by showing the finding of the violation
and the service of the notice; the burden to show the failure of service or the
merits of the non-violation shall then shift to the person filing the appeal.
If the facts developed appear to show that the violation was committed by the
motor vehicle in question, but that the owner or registrant thereof contends
that he is not responsible for said violation, such defense shall be available
only if the owner or registrant shall disclose and prove who the driver of the
motor vehicle or the person who committed the violation was.
(d) Disposition of appeal. Upon consideration
of the appeal the parking committee shall dispose of the case by:
(i) Finding that the violation was committed
as charged and determining the penalty to be assessed, whereupon the finding
and assessment shall be certified to the director of security for enforcement
in due course. In such event, the person charged may elect to pay the penalty
as provided in paragraph (I)(2) hereof to avoid further prosecution.
(ii) Finding that the violation was not
committed as charged and in such event the notice of violation shall be
withdrawn.
(4) Effect of failure to pay penalty or to
file an appeal. If a person who is served with a notice of violation, or upon
whose vehicle a notice is served, fails to elect to pay the penalty prescribed
or fails to elect to file an appeal, as provided in paragraph (I)(3)(a) hereof,
the university may elect to treat such failure on the part of such person as an
admission of said violation and a consent to the assessment enforce the same
pursuant to paragraph (I)(5)(a) hereof.
(5) Enforcement by director of security.
(a) If a person upon whom a violation notice
is served, or the owner of a vehicle upon which a violation notice is served,
shall fail, within ten days after, such service, to pay the prescribed penalty
or to file an appeal as herein provided, or after such appeal shall have been
determined against him shall fail to pay the penalty prescribed therein, the
director of security shall be empowered and directed to pursue any of the
following procedures for the prosecution of the violation:
(b) Students. If the accused person be a
student, the director of security and/or the cashier may:
(i) Certify the violation and the prescribed
penalty to the registrar and the registrar shall withhold such student's
registration for quarter's subsequent to the certification or his graduation
from the university, or both, until the prescribed penalties have been paid;
or
(ii) Refer the violation and the
prescribed penalty to the appropriate administrative office for disciplinary
action and revocation of registration and driving privileges; or
(iii) Prosecute the violation in a proper
court of this state by filing with said court an affidavit charging the offense
and following procedures in such cases made and provided.
(c) Faculty members and staff members. If the
accused person be a faculty member or a staff member, the director of security
may:
(i) Certify the violation and the
prescribed penalty to the parking committee and the committee may, at its'
discretion revoke the parking privileges for said person. The committee shall
withhold vehicle registration and permits for said person in subsequent
registration and permit years until the penalties shall have been paid;
or
(ii) Prosecute the violation in
a proper court of this state by filing with said court an affidavit charging
the offense and following procedures in such cases made and provided.
(d) Other persons. If the accused
person be a person other than a student, faculty member, or staff member, the
director of security may prosecute said violation in a proper court of this
state by filing with said court an affidavit charging the offense and following
procedures in such cases made and provided.
(6) Ultimate disciplinary action. In any
event, and in addition to other powers of enforcement, any person violating the
provisions of these regulations, if he be a faculty member, staff member, or
student, shall be subject to such disciplinary action by university authorities
as may be provided by the rules of the board of trustees, the rules of the
faculty of the university, or the student rules, as may be deemed appropriate
by the disciplinary authorities as provided in the said rules. The director of
security shall have the authority and is directed to initiate such disciplinary
procedures in cases provided in these regulations or in such cases as are
deemed appropriate under the rules.
(7) Presumptions. If any motor vehicle be
found upon the lands and property of the university in violation of any of the
regulations of the state of Ohio, or its' traffic laws, or of these
regulations, the owner thereof or the registrant thereof, if the vehicle be
registered under these regulations, shall be held prima facie to be the person
driving, operating or controlling, parking or otherwise using the said vehicle
and committing the violation. Furthermore, if such motor vehicle be owned by
any member of a family to which a student, faculty member, or staff member
shall belong, the said student, faculty member, or staff member shall be held
prima facie to be the person driving, operating, controlling, parking or
otherwise using the said motor vehicle and committing the violation.
(8) Impounding procedures. In addition to
other powers of enforcement, the director of security shall have the power and
is directed to impound motor vehicles in the following instances:
(a) If a motor vehicle is parked in front of
a fireplug, within thirty feet of a stop sign or traffic control sign;
or
(b) If a motor vehicle is parked
in such a way as to block a driveway, to block a service entrance, or to create
a hazard to public safety, or
(c)
If an improper state license tag, or if no state license tag is displayed on
the vehicle; or
(d) If a motor
vehicle is parked in an area for which "No Stopping Anytime" signs are erected;
or
(e) If more than three unpaid or
unsettled violation notices have been issued against the motor vehicle;
or
(f) If a motor vehicle
registered by a student and permitted to park in student parking areas shall be
parked in a faculty, staff, or visitor parking area' contrary to these
regulations; or
(g) If a motor
vehicle is parked in a designated football parking area on days of home
football games, contrary to these regulations; or
(h) If the owner of a motor vehicle has
failed or refused to pay fees charged at any pay parking facility. In the event
a motor vehicle is so impounded, the director of security shall assess an
impounding fee against such motor vehicle. Payment of the costs of removing and
storage of impounded vehicles shall be the responsibility of the owner of the
vehicle.
(J) Prohibitions and penalties.
(1) Giving false
registration information. No person shall give false information when
registering a motor vehicle or applying for a permit or decal as provided in
these regulations, and if such information is given by any person, the
registration and permit of such person shall be referred, pursuant to paragraph
(I)(6) hereof, to proper university authorities for such disciplinary action
deemed appropriate.
(2) Defacing,
reproducing parking permits or using revoked permits. No person shall
reproduce, deface or use a parking permit or decal contrary to these
regulations and no person shall use a permit or decal after the same has been
revoked pursuant to these regulations. Any person doing so shall be issued a
citation to the proper court of this state for such offense, or referred,
pursuant to paragraph (I)(6) hereof, to proper university authorities for such
disciplinary action deemed appropriate, or both.
(3) Vehicle not registered. Any person
driving, operating or controlling, stopping, parking, or otherwise using a
motor vehicle and who is required by these regulations to register the same and
procure a permit therefor, contrary to paragraph (E)(4) hereof, shall be
assessed a penalty of ten dollars or
referred to proper university authorities for disciplinary action deemed
appropriate, or both.
(4) Driving
or parking outside permitted areas. Any person driving, operating or
controlling, parking, stopping or otherwise using a motor vehicle outside
permitted areas contrary to the provisions of paragraphs (D)(1) and (E)(1)
hereof, shall be permitted to pay the prescribed penalty to avoid prosecution,
or shall be prosecuted pursuant to paragraph (I)(5)(a).
(5) Permit not displayed. Any person failing
to attach and display his permit decal in violation of paragraph (H)(1) hereof
shall be permitted to pay a penalty of three dollars to avoid prosecution, or shall be prosecuted
pursuant to paragraph (I)(5)(a) hereof.
(6) Penalties not prescribed elsewhere. Any
person violating any provision of these regulations or a state law or traffic
regulation for which a penalty is not provided elsewhere herein, shall be
permitted, in order to avoid prosecution, to pay the penalty for such violation
as shall be provided and set forth for such violation in paragraph (J)(7)(a)
below, or shall be prosecuted for said violation pursuant to paragraph
(I)(5)(a) hereof.
(7) Prescribed
penalties.
(a) As provided in paragraph
(I)(2) hereof, the following penalties for violations of these regulations or
of state law or traffic regulations are provided as those which a person
accused of violation shall be permitted to pay to avoid further prosecution for
said violation:
(i) Permit not displayed
.......$ 3.00, If vehicle
(ii) Not
Registered ........... $ 10.00
(iii) Driving and/or parking outside
permitted areas ..........$ 3.00
(iv) Permit improperly displayed ..... $
3.00
(v) Permits-Illegal use of,
reproducing alteration of, defacing, using revoked permits .......... $
3.00
(vi) Overtime parking
.......... $ 3.00
(vii) Parking
along painted curb ..... $ 3.00
(viii) Signs prohibiting parking or stopping
............. $ 3.00
(ix) Blocking
driveway .......... $ 3.00
(x)
Driving and/or parking on grass ... $ 3.00
(xi) Parking within thirty feet of stop sign
............. $ 3.00
(xii) Parking
within twenty feet of crosswalk ............. $ 3.00
(xiii) Parking within ten feet of fire
hydrant ........... $ 5.00
(xiv)
Parking more than twelve inches from curb ............. $ 3.00
(xv) Driving wrong way direction on one way
street .......... $ 5.00
(xvi)
Parking facing wrong direction ... $ 3.00
(xvii) Reckless operation ......... $
10.00
(xviii) Officers signal
disobeyed ...... $ 3.00
(xix)
Crosswalk parking .......... $ 3.00
(xx) License plates (illegal or not
displayed) ............ $ 3.00
(xxi) Turn, illegal right ......... $
5.00
(xxii) Turn, illegal left
......... $ 5.00
(xxiii) Front seat
overloaded ........ $ 3.00
(xxiv)
Driver's view obstructed ..... $ 3.00
(xxv) Failure to stop at "Stop" sign ..... $
5.00
(xxvi) Driving left of center
...... $ 5.00
(xxvii) Failure to
maintain A.C.D.A ..... $ 5.00
(xxviii) Parking-bridge-tunnel ....... $
3.00
(xxix) Parking, disregard
painted lines .............. $ 3.00
(xxx) Failure to signal-stop, turn, etc
............ $ 3.00
(xxxi) Illegal
speed ........... $ 10.00
(xxxii)
"Operator License" violation ... $ 5,00
(xxxiii) Backing without safety ...... $
5.00
(xxxiv) Towing and impounding
....... $ 3.00
(b)
Faculty and staff members who receive more than six unexcused violations during
the regular academic year, September fifteenth to June fifteenth, or during the summer dune June
fifteenth to Septemberfifteenth, will automatically have their parking
privileges revoked. Once such parking privileges are revoked the vehicle
involved is subject to being towed if parked on university property. Revoked
parking privileges can be reinstated only upon application to, and approved by,
the parking committee.
(c) Students
who receive move than six. uuexcused. violations during the regular academic
year September fifteenth to June
fifteenth or during the summer
Junefifteenth to September
fifteenth will automatically lose the
privilege of operating and/or parking a vehicle on university property and
after being so notified will be subject to disciplinary action and to towing
and impoundment of the vehicle if they continue to operate and/or park on
university property.
(8)
Be it further resolved that the map, attached hereto, is made a part of the
said motor vehicle, traffic and parking regulations of the Ohio university.
(See "AppendixA".)
(9) Be it further resolved that the secretary
of the board of trustees of the Ohio university is hereby authorized and
directed to file this resolution as the motor vehicle, traffic and parking
regulations of the Ohio university as promulgated by the board of trustees of
the Ohio university with the secretary of state of Ohio and to do and file such
other and further papers and documents as may be necessary and proper to comply
with section
111.15 of the Revised Code, and
to make these regulations binding and in force according to law. The said
Robert E. Mann, as secretary of the board of trustees of the Ohio university
further certifies that the foregoing is a true copy of the resolution of the
said the board of trustees of the Ohio university on the day and at the meeting
above-noted and that the same are a part of the official proceedings of the
said board and that the same have not been modified, amended, or repealed and
remain in full force and effect. In witness thereof, the said Robert E. Mahn
secretary of the board of trustees of the Ohio university has signed his name
and caused the seal of the Ohio university to be affixed hereto on the
sixteenth day of October 1976.
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