A. The parking lot owned by the city and consisting of portions of Lots 1 through 16 inclusive, Block 53, town of North Yakima, now Yakima, Washington, according to the official plat thereof recorded in Volume "A" of Plats, page 10, and re-recorded in Volume "E" of Plats, page 1, records of Yakima County, Washington is designated as the police station/legal center public parking lot.

The parking lot owned by the city and consisting of portions of Lots 9 through 12 inclusive, Block 73, Town of North Yakima, now Yakima, Washington, as recorded in Volume "A" of Plats, page 10, and re-recorded in Volume "E" or Plats, page 1, records of Yakima County, Washington is designated as the Probation Center public parking lot.

B. Signs shall be conspicuously posted warning against parking of unauthorized vehicles at the police station/legal center and probation center public parking lots designated in subsection A of this section, which sign shall also warn that unauthorized parked vehicles are subject to impoundment. When such signs are so posted, it is unlawful for any person to park an unauthorized vehicle in the police station/legal center or probation center public parking lots. Unauthorized vehicles shall include any vehicle left in the lot unmoved for more than twenty-four hours, nonoperational vehicles, vehicles parked in the reserved designated area, vehicles parked for a purpose other than transacting lawful business at the police station/legal center or probation center, and personal vehicles of officers or employees of any city department housed in the police station/legal center or probation center unless there is displayed within the parked vehicle a valid parking permit issued pursuant to subsection C of this section, so as to be plainly visible and legible from a point outside the vehicle near the driver's position.

C. The designation of reserved parking areas and the issuing of parking permits referred to in subsection B of this section shall be administered by the chief of police. The permits shall be as designated by a policy or rules and regulations, as adopted or amended from time to time, of the chief of police, subject to approval by the city manager.

D. The procedures for enforcing the parking prohibitions of this section shall be those procedures provided by Chapter 9.60 of the city code as applicable to parking violations; provided, that the chief of police or his agent is authorized to immediately impound or cause to be impounded any unauthorized vehicle parked in police station/legal center public parking lots described in subsection A of this section. The applicable provisions of Chapter 9.48 of the city code shall govern towing, storage, redemption, or other disposition of any vehicle impounded pursuant to this section. (Ord. 99-11 § 1, 1999).