WSR 17-22-093
PERMANENT RULES
CLARK COLLEGE
[Filed October 30, 2017, 10:13 a.m., effective November 30, 2017]
Effective Date of Rule: Thirty-one days after filing.
Purpose: The purpose of this rule making is to enforce parking in a metered parking spot without paying the fee stated on the meter as a parking violation.
Citation of Rules Affected by this Order: Amending WAC 132N-156-550 Illegal parking, parking and traffic rules and regulations.
Statutory Authority for Adoption: RCW 28B.50.140.
Adopted under notice filed as WSR 17-19-070 on September 15, 2017.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted at the Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's own Initiative: New 0, Amended 1, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, Amended 1, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted using Negotiated Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Pilot Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Other Alternative Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Date Adopted: October 25, 2017.
Bob Williamson
Vice President of
Administrative Services
AMENDATORY SECTION (Amending WSR 00-20-034, filed 9/28/00, effective 10/29/00)
WAC 132N-156-550 Illegal parking.
No person shall stop, place, or park a vehicle at any place where official signs, curbs, or pavement markings prohibit parking, or within fifteen feet of a fire hydrant, or at any place for which the vehicle does not have a valid parking permit. Any vehicle not parked in a parking stall shall be considered illegally parked.
Drivers who are instructed by a security officer to either move an illegally parked vehicle or not to park in violation of this section, and refuse, will have their vehicle immediately impounded or immobilized.
Security officers may issue citations resulting in fines if the vehicle is found in the commission of any of the following parking violations:
(1) Parking in a faculty/staff parking zone without a valid permit.
(2) Parking a disabled or inoperable vehicle on campus in excess of twenty-four hours without appropriate permission.
(3) Parking any vehicle in such a manner as to obstruct, impede, hinder, or prevent the use of another parking space. This violation includes, but is not limited to, parking over the line, parking an oversized vehicle in a space too small, allowing part of a vehicle to protrude into another space, and parking too close to another vehicle.
(4) Parking in a space not designated for parking.
(5) Parking in an area not authorized.
(6) Blocking vehicular or pedestrian traffic.
(7) Parking within fifteen feet of a fire hydrant.
(8) Parking in a fire lane, sidewalk, or intracampus avenue.
(9) Parking in a "No Parking" zone.
(10) Parking on the grass.
(11) Parking overnight without security office permission and/or permit.
(12) Parking of a bicycle illegally.
(13) Parking in physically disabled persons parking zone without an authorized parking permit.
(14) Use of a vehicle for habitation without permission.
(15) Illegal use of or failure to display permit.
(16) Creating a safety hazard in the opinion of the security officer.
(17) Allowing a vehicle alarm to sound, repeatedly or for an extended period of time (false alarm).
(18) Parking in a metered parking spot without payment of the meter fee stated on the meter during the posted time limits.
All parking citations carry a twenty-dollar fine, with the exception of physically disabled persons parking violations which carry a fifty-dollar fine.
Illegally parked vehicles which require removal will be done so at the owner's or operator's expense.