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MIAMI-DADE SIDEWALK PARKING ORDINANCE The best kept secret is the fine for parking on sidewalks in Miami-Dade County is now $150.00. See all those cars parked on sidewalks? The police have trouble seeing them. Call 305-595-6263, police dispatch, where you get the 3rd degree in making the report. Tell the dispatcher it is a $150.00 fine. Chances are slim the police will come and ticket the vehicle. It is low priority until someone is killed going around these cars. This is just one of the reasons there is a 400 million dollar shortfall in the Miami Dade County budget. Wait until the next budget this summer. We will ask the Miami-Dade County to ask the Miami-Dade Police for the amount of sidewalk violation tickets they wrote in the past year for $150.00. Their ticket books do not have this fine in them. Hopefully, the Commission will adjust the police budget accordingly. NEW: In August, 2010 the Lieutenant at Palmetto Bay showed me his new ticet book, that had new labels pasted in on every ticket indicating the new fines, including the $150.00 sidewalk parking fine. Now the effort to get police to stop and write tickets for cars on sidewalks begins. Sec. 30-292. Stopping, standing or parking prohibited in specified places. (1) Except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic, or in compliance with law or the directions of a police officer or official traffic control device, no person shall: (a) Stop, stand or park a vehicle: 1. On the roadway side of any vehicle stopped or parked at the edge or curb of a street; 2. On a sidewalk; 3. Within an intersection; 4. On a crosswalk; 5. Between a safety zone and the adjacent curb or within thirty (30) feet of points on the curb immediately opposite the ends of a safety zone, unless the Division of Road Operations of the Department of Transportation indicates a different length by signs or markings; 6. Alongside or opposite any street excavation or obstruction when stopping, standing, or parking would obstruct traffic; 7. Upon any bridge or other elevated structure upon a highway, causeway or within a highway tunnel, where parking is not provided for thereon; 8. On any railroad tracks; 9. On a bicycle path; 10. At any place where official traffic control devices prohibit stopping; 11. On the roadway side of any vehicle stopped or parked at the edge or curb of a street. 12. At any place where disabled access is provided, including but not limited to: an access aisle adjacent to an accessible parking space, curb ramp, ramp, or accessible path of travel such as sidewalks and bicycle paths. Any violation of this section shall result in a fine of one hundred fifty dollars ($150.00).
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| Last Updated on Sunday, 12 December 2010 13:17 |


