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BILL N°. AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 10.40 OF THE UNIVERSITY CITY MUNICIPAL CODE, RELATING TO STOPPING, STANDING AND PARKING GENERALLY, BY REPEALING SECTION 10.40.100 THEREOF, RELATING TO STOPPING, STANDING OR PARKING PROHIBITED IN STREET OR ALLEY UNDER CERTAIN CONDITIONS, AND ENACTING IN LIEU THEREOF~A NEW SECTION TO BE KNOWN AS "SECTION 10.40.100, STOPPING, STANDING OR PARKING PROHIBITED IN STREET OR ALLEY UNDER CERTAIN CONDITIONS," THEREBY AMENDING SAID SECTION SO AS TO DELETE THE REQUIREMENT THAT THE OPERATOR OF A VEHICLE PARKED IN AN ALLEY REMAIN IN THE VEHICLE, PROVIDED THE ALLEY IS MORE THAN 18 FEET WIDE; CONTAINING A SAVINGS CLAUSE AND PROVIDING A PENALTY. BE IT ORDAINED MISSOURI, AS FOLLOWS: BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF UNIVERSITY CITY, Section 1. Chapter 10.40 of the University City Municipal Code, relating to stopping, standing and parking generally, is hereby amended by repealing Section 10.40.100 thereof, relating to stopping, standing or parking prohibited in street or alley under certain conditions, and enacting in lieu thereof a new section to be known as "Section 10.40.100 Stopping, standing or parking prohibited in street or alley under certain conditions"; so that said section, as so amended, shall read as follows: 10.40.100 Stopping, standing or parking prohibited in street or alley under certain conditions. It is unlawful for any operator to stop, stand or park any vehicle upon a street in such a manner or under such conditions as to leave available less than ten feet of the width of the roadway for fi'ee movement of vehicular traffic, except that an operator may stop temporarily during the actual loading or unloading of passengers or when necessary in obedience to traffic regulations or traffic signs or signals or the direction of a police officer. It is unlawful for any operator to park a vehicle within an alley unless the operator of the vehicle shall remain with such vehicle at all times when it is so parked and such vehicle shall be parked in such a manner as to lel~ve available more than ten (10) feet of the width of the roadway for the free movement of vehicular traffic, except that the operator shall not be required to remain in such vehicle if the alley is more than eighteen (18) feet wide and the vehicle is not parked in such a manner as to block vehicular access to abutting property. It is unlawful for any operator to park a vehicle in such a manner as to block vehicular access to abutting property unless the operator of the vehicle shall remain with such vehicle at all times when it is so parked. 5