A. The parking lots owned by the city consisting of Lots 4 and 5, Block 48, and Lots 13, 14, 15 and 16, Block 49, of the town of North Yakima (now Yakima), Washington, according to the plat thereof recorded in Volume A of Plats, page 10, and rerecorded in Volume E, page 1, records of Yakima County, Washington, are designated as the City Hall parking lot.

B. Signs shall be conspicuously posted warning against parking of unauthorized vehicles at the City Hall parking lots designated in subsection A of this section, which sign shall also warn that unauthorized parked vehicles are subject to impoundment, and when such signs are so posted, it is unlawful for any person to park a vehicle in that City Hall parking lot unless the parking vehicle is a marked city-owned vehicle, or 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 issuing of parking permits referred to in subsection B of this section shall be administered by the customer services manager of the city. The permits shall be issued to such members of the management group of the city as designated by a policy or rules and regulations, as adopted or amended from time to time, of the customer services manager, 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 City Hall 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. 3075 § 5, 1988; Ord. 2735 § 2 (part), 1983).