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I 214 ORDINANCE NO. 8.7,61 An Ordinance regulating the parking of vehicles (including bicycles) upon the streets of the City of Eugen e, including parking meter regulations, and prescribing penalties for the violation thereof, and repealing all ordinances or parts of ordinances in so far as they are in conflict herewith, and declaring an emergency. THE CITY OF EUGENE DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: Section=~.1. (a) The term "street" as used in this ordinance shall apply to all that part of the public highway, bridge or alley intended for the public x use of vehicles or street cars and generally known as the roadway. (b) The term "curb" shall mean the extreme edge of the traveled portion of the street or roadway. (c) The term "vehicle" shall mean every mechanical device by which persons or property are transported over the streets and alleys of the City of Eugene, including bicycles. (d) The term "emergency vehicle" shall mean ambulance, fire, police, public service emergency and United States mail vehicles while engaged in emergency business. (e) The term "driver" shall mean the rider, driver or leader of a horse or horses, or any person who pushes or propels a vehicle upon the streets. (f) The term "park" or "parked" shall mean and apply to arty standing vehicle, and the term "double park'r or "double parked" shall mean and apply to any standing vehicle where the shortest distance from any part of said vehicle t;~the curbing on the side of the street on which said vehicle is standing is more than three feet. Section 2. All vehicles parked or left standing on any street or alley in the City of Eugene, except upon the streets or alleys where angle parking is expressly permitted under the provisions of this ordinance, shall be parked parallel to the curb and not more than six inches distant therefrom and not within a distance of three feet from any other vehicle in front or behind thereof, and all parking being done with a view to economy of space, all vehicles shall draw up to a distance of three feet from the nearest vehicle, and in no other manner, excepting where angle parking is permitted, and excepting the space opposite to the vehicle entrance to any residence property is reserved to the owner or occupant of said property, and excepting further all marked areas for special uses. Section 3. It shall be unlawful for the driver of any person or persons to park or leave standing any vehicle in anyplace upon the streets of Eugene other than between curb or curb lines and as provided in this ordinance and/or marked upon the streets themselves. Section 4. It sha 11 be unlawful for the driver or any person or persons to