Interesting Facts about Parking

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1. Parking meters are enforced from 8:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M., Monday through Friday. On Saturdays you may park at a meter for two hours free, but the vehicle must be moved from the block face when the two-hour time limit lapses.

2. Police and Parking Enforcement officers are allowed by City Code to issue Parking Notices in private parking lots and on City streets.

3. Parking Notice penalties will increase by $30.00 every ten days if not paid. When you sell, trade, junk, or otherwise dispose of a vehicle, you are required by State law to remove the license plates.

4. Signs take precedence over any curb or street marking.

5. Vehicles with six or more outstanding parking notices may be immobilized or impounded.

6. 12.56.440. Stopping or parking - Prohibited in certain areas.

A. No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle (except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with law or the directions of a police officer) in the following places:
On a sidewalk area;
In front or within five feet of a private driveway;
Within an intersection;
Within five feet of fire hydrant, as measured in both directions along the street or highway curbline from the line extending from the center of the hydrant to the curbline at its nearest point;
On a crosswalk;
Within twenty feet of a crosswalk at an intersection;
Within thirty feet upon the approach of any flashing beacon or traffic-control device including stop signs located at the side of a road way;
Between a safety zone and the adjacent curb, or within thirty feet of points on the curb immediately opposite the ends of a safety zone, unless authorized signs or markings indicate a different length;
Within fifty feet of the nearest rail of a railroad crossing
Within twenty feet of the driveway entrance to any fire station, and on the side of a street opposite the entrance when properly signposted;
Alongside or opposite any street excavation or obstruction, when stopping, standing or parking would obstruct or be hazardous to traffic;
Upon any bridge or other elevated structure upon a street, or within a street tunnel or underpass;
At any place where official signs or traffic markings prohibit stopping, standing or parking;
At any place in any public park, playground or grounds of any public building other than on the roads or parking lots provided for public parking and then only in accordance with provisions of any officially installed signs, such signs to be installed by the city transportation engineer;
On any footpath in any park or playground;
Within a fire lane as designated and marked;
On any median or island, or on any dividing section of the roadway.

B. No person shall move a vehicle under such person's control into any such prohibited area, or upon any area not designated for vehicular travel or parking.

7. Handicapped parking stalls in private parking lots and on the City streets are reserved for individuals with State issued handicapped parking permits only. Private parking lot and other City business employees cannot give an individual permission to park in a handicapped stall without a valid permit at any time (even if the private parking lot is full and the handicapped stalls are not in use). Handicapped parking stalls may be marked and/or signed with blue, white, or yellow paint. Please do not park on the striped painted area next to handicapped parking stalls. If a handicapped person parks a van in a van accessible stall, they must be able to raise and lower the wheelchair lift attached to the van and then exit the van and have enough room to maneuver the wheelchair. The fine for parking in a handicapped parking stall is $175.00.
If you have a handicapped permit you can park at a parking meter for two hours without charge, freight loading zones for two hours without charge, or passenger loading zones and time-limited parking zones for two hours without charge.

You cannot park any where prohibited by signs markings or ordinances.

If you need information on how to apply for a handicapped permit, you may call the Motor Vehicle Department at 297-7784.
For additional information concerning parking violations, please call the Salt Lake City Enforcement Office at 535-6321. We are located at 333 South 200 East, Salt Lake City, Utah 84111.