7.30 Parking regulations.
(1) Parking Prohibited. No owner or operator of any vehicle shall park or stop or leave standing such vehicle, or suffer, or allow, or permit such vehicle to be parked or left standing otherwise than in obedience to traffic regulations, signs, or signals, whether such vehicle is occupied or not, in any of the following places:
(a) Within an intersection.
(b) Alongside or opposite any highway excavation or obstruction when such standing or stopping would obstruct traffic or when pedestrian traffic would be required or travel in the roadway.
(c) Upon any portion of a highway where and at the time when stopping or standing is prohibited by official traffic signs indicating the prohibition of any stopping or standing.
(d) Within any county park other than in designated parking areas.
(e) Either side of County Trunk Highway F from the Fox River Bridge westward 400 feet west of the intersection of County Trunk Highway F and County Trunk Highway W.
(f) Either side of County Trunk Highway W from a bridge approximately 1,200 feet north of the intersection of County Trunk Highway W and County Trunk Highway F to a point 3,500 feet south of the intersection of County Trunk Highway W and County Trunk Highway F.
(g) Either side of County Trunk Highway E beginning at the intersection with County Trunk Highway G proceeding west to a point .8 of a mile from said intersection.
(h) Either side of County Trunk Highway JR beginning at the intersection with County Trunk Highway E proceeding northwest and west to the intersection with State Highway 31. (10/26/82)
(i) Either side of County Trunk Highway A (Seventh Street) beginning at the intersection with State Highway 31 proceeding east to a point thirty-nine hundred feet from said intersection.
(j) Either side of County Trunk Highway BB (Seventh Street) beginning at the intersection with State Highway 75 proceeding west to a point thirty-nine hundred feet from said intersection.
(k) Either side of County Trunk Highway C beginning at the intersection with County Trunk Highway JF proceeding westerly to a point at the easterly boundary of the Trevor School, in the township of Salem, Sections 27 and 34, Range 20 East.
(l) Either side of County Trunk Highway T beginning at the Chicago Northwestern Railroad tracks and proceeding westerly 2685 feet in the township of Pleasant Prairie, Section 21, Range 22 East.
(m) Either side of County Trunk Highway “C” beginning at its intersection with County Trunk Highway “HH” and proceeding westerly 270 feet in the township of Pleasant Prairie, Section 18, Range 22 East.
(n) Either side of County Trunk Highway “B”, beginning 0.55 miles south of State Trunk Highway 50 and proceeding southerly to the Soo Line Railroad track crossing in the Village of Silver Lake, in Kenosha County, Wisconsin, Section 8, Town 1 North, Range 20 East of the Fourth Principal Meridian.
(o) Either side of County Trunk Highway F beginning at the entrance to Silver Lake Park and proceeding west 175 feet and east 1,931 feet, however, an attended vehicle may be left standing in the deacceleration lane on the north side of County Trunk Highway F when said vehicle is waiting for admission to Silver Lake Park. (10/26/82)
(p) Either side of County Trunk Highway “BB”, beginning at a point 3,900 feet west of its intersection with State Trunk Highway 75 and proceeding west to a point 2,580 feet east of its intersection with County Trunk Highway “B”, in the Township of Brighton, Kenosha County, Wisconsin, Sections 3, 4, 9 and 10, Town 2 North, Range 20 East. (10/26/82)
(q) Either side of County Trunk Highway “B” beginning at its intersection with State Trunk Highway 142 and proceeding north to a point 2,550 feet from said intersection, in the Township of Brighton, Kenosha County, Wisconsin, Sections 8 and 17, Town 2 North, Range 20 East. (10/26/82)
(r) Either side of County Trunk Highway “JB”, beginning at a point 1,320 feet west of its intersection with County Trunk Highway “PH” and proceeding west to a point 2,600 feet from said intersection, in the Township of Brighton, Kenosha County, Wisconsin, Sections 21 and 28, Town 2 North, Range 20 East. (10/26/82)
(s) Either side of County Trunk Highway “H”, beginning at its intersection with State Trunk Highway 142 and proceeding north to a point 300 feet from said intersection, in the Township of Somers, Kenosha County, Wisconsin, Section 28 and 29, Town 2 North, Range 22 East. (1/22/91)
(t) Either side of County Trunk Highway “H”, beginning at its intersection with State Trunk Highway 142 and proceeding south to a point 300 feet from said intersection, in the Township of Somers, Kenosha County, Wisconsin, Section 28 and 29, Town 2 North, Range 22 East. (3/5/91)
(u) Either side of County Trunk Highway “V”, beginning at its intersection with 216th Avenue and proceeding west to its intersection with 224th Avenue, in the Town of Salem, Kenosha County, Wisconsin, Sections 25 and 36, Town 1 North, Range 20 East. (11/10/10)
(v) Either side of County Trunk Highway “E”, beginning at a point 1000 feet west of its intersection with State Trunk Highway 32 and proceeding west to a point 2300 feet west from said intersection, in the Township of Somers, Kenosha County, Wisconsin, Section 7 and 18, Town 2 North, Range 23 East. (1/17/95)
(w) Either side of County Trunk Highway “D” beginning at its intersection with State Trunk Highway 50 and proceeding north to a point 1200 feet from said intersection, in the Town of Bristol, Kenosha County, Wisconsin, Sections 4 and 5, Town 1 North, Range 21 East. (10/21/97)
(x) Either side of County Trunk Highway “F” beginning at a point 500 feet easterly from its intersection with 392nd Avenue and proceeding westerly to a point 650 feet westerly from its intersection with 392nd Avenue and the parking of trailers or vehicles with trailers on either side of County Trunk Highway “F” beginning at a point 650 feet westerly from its intersection with 392nd Avenue and proceeding westerly to a point 800 feet easterly from its intersection with 399th Avenue. (10/7/03)
(y) East side of County Trunk Highway “KD” beginning 1,800 feet northerly from its intersection with County Trunk Highway “F” and proceeding to a point 6,000 feet northerly from its intersection with County Trunk Highway “F”. (2/4/14)
(2) Parking Limited and Posting of Handicapped Parking Lots.
(a) When signs are erected along any highway or in any designated parking area in a county park giving notice there, no operator or owner of any vehicle shall park, or stop, or leave standing, such vehicle, or suffer, or allow, or permit such vehicle to be parked, stopped, or left standing on such highway or designated parking area for longer than the period specified.
(b) No owner or operator of any vehicle shall park, or stop, or leave standing such vehicle, or suffer, or allow, or permit such vehicle to be parked, or left standing longer than 24 hours in any one place within the right-of-way of any public highway in the county or longer than 24 hours in any designated parking area in a county park.
(c) Effective June 1, 1982, all parking lots having parking places which are required to be provided by law for the handicapped shall be posted as herein described by the person or party in charge thereof. The person or party in charge thereof is defined as a tenant holding under a written agreement, or, if there is none, the owner. Posting shall be by one or more appropriate permanent signs totaling at least one (1) square foot in size, the bottom of which sign shall be at least five (5) feet above the immediate surface of the parking lot located immediately adjacent to each parking place which is reserved for the handicapped. Said sign or signs shall indicate that said parking place is reserved for the handicapped and shall state the penalty for unlawful parking therein. Each day after June 1, 1982, during which this ordinance is not complied with, shall be a separate and continuing offense. This ordinance shall apply to parking lots which are existing on or which are constructed after June 1, 1982.
(3) Parking Restricted -- Civic Center Designated Parking Areas (5/15/07).
(a) No owner or operator of any vehicle shall park, or stop, or leave standing such vehicle, or suffer, or allow, or permit such vehicle to be parked or left standing in any of the following Kenosha County Civic Center parking areas, designated as Lots 1 through 8, unless pursuant to the provisions of this section:
(b) The following regulations shall apply to the above-noted designated areas:
1. No person other than the individual or class that has been assigned a designated parking space shall park in that designated space.
2. Parking spaces reserved for individual’s vehicles will be 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, with no exclusion for weekends and holidays.
3. Parking slots reserved for law enforcement vehicles and county supervisor’s vehicles will be 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, with no exclusion for weekends or holidays.
4. Lot 1 shall be reserved for not more than thirty minutes, short term public, non-employee parking.
5. The County Parking Ramp and outer parking lot #2 is reserved for general non designated Kenosha County employees, safety building employees, and members of the general public conducting business with the County. In addition a set number of designated 24 hour paid spaces will be reserved for Metra riders who must display their reservation tag at all times.
6. Parking Lot 3 shall be reserved at all times for Kenosha County Safety Building employees who are properly displaying an Official County issued parking permit.
7. Lot 4 shall be reserved exclusively and at all times for designated Kenosha County Sheriff, City of Kenosha Police, and City/County Joint Services vehicles and designated officials who are properly displaying Official County issued parking permits.
8. Lot 5 shall be reserved for individuals on Kenosha County Jury duty who have been issued a juror’s pass which is properly displayed on their vehicle.
9. Lot 6 shall be reserved for elected officials and designated employees of the Kenosha County Administration Building who are properly displaying Official County issued parking permits.
10. Lot 7 shall be reserved for designated Kenosha County employees or officials who are properly displaying Official County issued parking permits.
11. Lot 8 shall be reserved at all times for Kenosha County Sheriff police squads and transport vehicles.
12. Aisle parking, parking in posted “No Parking” areas, parking across two designated parking spaces with one vehicle and pedestrian mall parking shall be prohibited.
13. Vehicles occupying the handicapped reserved spots in the County Parking Ramp must display the “disabled” rear view window tag or have appropriate license plates.
14. The county building custodian shall see that all parking lots referred to in this section are properly posted with signs in accordance with this ordinance of sufficient size to be readable by a person with average eyesight.
15. Enforcement of this section will be the responsibility of the County Sheriff’s Department or under cooperative agreement with other governmental agencies through the issuance of a citation under section 3.60 of this Code entitled Uniform Citation Ordinance.
(4) Prosecution.
(a) Policy. It is the declared policy of this county that ownership of a vehicle is sufficiently related to causing, allowing, permitting, or suffering a vehicle to be parked so as to require the owner to be responsible for the parking of said vehicle.
(b) Responsibility. The person or other legal entity to which a vehicle is registered on the date of a parking ordinance violation shall be chargeable with said violation.
(c) Presumption. It shall be presumed, upon a showing by the County, that a parking violation occurred and upon a showing that the party charged pursuant to this ordinance, was the registered owner of the unlawfully parked vehicle on the date of the violation, that said registered owner is responsible for and guilty of the violation charged.
(d) Overcoming Presumption. The presumption in subsection (c), which established as therein specified, shall constitute a prima facie case and a basis for judgment, except where the person or other legal entity to which the vehicle is registered overcomes said presumption by the submission of proof of any of the following:
1. The vehicle was stolen at the time the violation occurred and reported as such to law enforcement authorities within a reasonable time thereafter.
2. The vehicle was lawfully parked.
3. The ownership of the vehicle was lawfully transferred to another prior to the violation.
4. The owner held or was eligible to hold a lawfully assigned permit to park in a restricted area.
(e) Limitation. This ordinance does not prohibit the actual operator of the vehicle responsible for the parking violation to be prosecuted for said violation. However, where the owner is charged, no other charges shall be brought against another, pending the outcome of said action, and the conviction of the owner shall bar further prosecutions for the same offense.
(5) Removal of Illegally Parked Vehicles.
(a) Whenever any county law enforcement officer has reason to believe that a vehicle standing upon a street, emergency vehicle lane, alley, public thoroughfare, upon any properly posted parking lot, or in any county park, is in violation of any provision of the county ordinances, or of any laws or regulations of the State of Wisconsin, or is also creating a public nuisance by obstructing the flow of vehicular or pedestrian traffic, by obstructing snow removal operations contrary to an emergency proclamation, or by obstructing construction or maintenance work contrary to posted temporary signs, he is authorized to require the owner or operator of said vehicle, if able to be found, to move the vehicle to a position not creating a public nuisance. Where the owner cannot be located or is not able to safely move said vehicle, the law enforcement officer may issue a citation and then have the vehicle moved by a county tow truck, or by a commercial towing concern, to a storage lot. Nothing in this section shall prohibit the issuance of a citation to an unlawfully parked or standing vehicle where the vehicle is not towed away. The vehicle shall not be released to the owner of said vehicle until a release from the county sheriff’s office is obtained, which release will be issued upon payment of the citation or the posting of a bond. The owner will further satisfy any mechanic’s lien rights which the county or the towing concern may have prior to obtaining the return of said vehicle.
(b) When any vehicle is removed pursuant to this ordinance, the Kenosha County Sheriff or his duly authorized representative shall notify the owner and/or lien holder, when known, as to the whereabouts of the vehicle.
(6) Penalty. Any person violating any provision of this ordinance may be required to forfeit not less than $20 nor more than $40 for the first offense and not less than $50 nor more than $100 for the 2nd or subsequent conviction within a year. [Code § 7.03.]