Ordinance 81-497CITY OF HOPKINS
HENNEPIN COUNTY, MINNESOTA
ORDINANCE NO. 81-497
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 700:169.39
OF THE HOPKINS CODE OF ORDINANCES
PERTAINING TO LIMITED TIME PARKING
AND NO PARKING ZONES AND REMOVALS THEREFROM
BE IT ORDAINED by the City Council of the City of Hopkins, as follows:
That Section 700:169.39 of the Hopkins Code of Ordinances be and the
same is hereby repealed and there are hereby adopted and ordainedthe following
provisions in place thereof:
Subdivision 39. LIMITED TITS PARKING AND NO PARKING ZONES AND REMOVALS
THEREFROM: The Council may by resolution or resolutions designate Limited Time
Parking and No Parking Zones and pursuant thereto, the Hopkins Police Department
shall cause the posting and maintenance of appropriate signs at the locations so
designated, which signs shall indicate in accordance with such resolutions the No
Parking Zones or the specified time limit zones for Parking.
Subdivision 39A. REMOVAL: Any vehicle or other obstruction left parked
or standing on any thoroughfare gin. Hopkins which is posted as a No Parking Zone or
which has exceeded the time limit established and posted for Parking, may be towed
or otherwise removed by or under the direction of any Police Officer and whenever
such vehicle or other obstruction is thus towed or removed, the expense of such
removal, including storage charges shall be charged against and paid by the owner
or operator of such vehicle or obstruction. No such removal sha11 prevent prosecution
against the owner or operator for any violation of this ordinance.
This Subdivision 39 and 39A does not repeal Subdivision 33, 34 and 35
of Section 700:169 as passed and adopted by Hopkins Ordinance No. 79 -465.
First read at a regular meeting of the Council of the City of Hopkins
held September 1, 1981, and finally read, approved, adopted and ordered published
at a regular meeting of said Council of said City on September 15, 1981.
ROBERT F. MILLER
Mayor
H.E. RICHARDSON, City Clerk
JOSEPH C. VESELY, City Attorney
Published in the HOPKINS SUN, September 23, 1981.