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• ORDINANCE NO. /470 • 1 2 AN ORDINANCE amending Section 7 of Ordinance No. 994-83 3 EMC 46.28.070 authorizing the Police to issue parking violations and to impound vehicles for unauthorized parking 4 in disabled stalls and repealing Ordinance No. 1067-84. 5 THE CITY OF EVERETT DOES ORDAIN: 6 Section 1 : Section 7 of Ordinance No. 994-83 (EMC 46.28.070) as 7 amended, which reads as follows: 8 9 Parking for Disabled Persons. 10 A. A person who has received a current and valid special disabled person's card, decal or license plate from the 11 Washington State Department of Licensing under RCW 46.16.380 shall be allowed to park a vehicle being used to 12 transport such person in parking meter spaces free of charge and for unlimited periods of time in parking zones 13 or areas which are otherwise restricted as to the length of time parking is permitted, This section shall have no 14 application to those zones or areas in which the stopping, parking, or standing of vehicles is prohibited or which are 15 reserved for special types of vehicles. Such person shall not be permitted the foregoing privilege unless the person 16 obtains and displays a distinguishing card, decal , or license plate issued pursuant to RCW 46.16.380. 17 B. No person shall stop, stand, or park a vehicle in a parking 18 space reserved for physically disabled persons provided on public property or on private property without charge 19 without a special license plate, card, or decal issued pursuant to RCW 46.16.380. In addition to assessing the 20 penalty identified in Section 26 of this Ordinance, the Police Department may remove and impound the offending 21 vehicle. 22 C. A parking space or stall for a physically disabled person shall be identified by: 23 1 . A painted white line at least four inches in width on 24 the improved surface delineating the perimeter of the parking space or stall ; and 25 2. A vertical sign, between forty-eight and sixty inches 26 off the ground, with the international symbol of access described under RCW 70.92.120 and the notice 27 "State disabled parking permit required." 28 3. A legend of the "international symbol of access" described in RCW 70.92.120 shall be painted on the 29 surface of the stall in white per City standards. 30 This section shall not apply to vertical signs in use on the effective date of this act, except that within two 31 years of this date each vertical sign must display the notice "State disabled parking permit required." 32