Licensing & Regulating Parking Stations and Parking Station Operators

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It shall be unlawful to affix any parking tag on any motor vehicle so as to obliterate in whole, or in part, any portion of the motor vehicle license plate on such vehicle. Section 8. CHANGE OF RATE. No licensee shall make any charge for storing any -motor:--vehicle in an open parking station in excess of that set forth in his application for license, unless and until he has: 1. Notified the Board in writing of the change. 2. Posted signs showing such change in the same manner as set forth in Section 6. Section 9. NOTIFICATION OF CLAIM. Each licensee shall immediately notify the City Comoro ler of any claim over Five Dollars ($5.00) made by reason of any loss, theft, or conversion occurring upon his premises, or of any claim for damages arising from the operation of his open parking station. The obligation herein created of any person operating, or conducting an open parking station under the terms of this Ordinance, to the owner of a motor vehicle parked therein, shall not extend beyond the regular posted hours of attendance, as posted upon such open parking station, and printed upon the regular receipt furnished to such motor vehicle owner. Section 10. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY. No contract, agreement, lease, receipt, rule or regulation shall exempt any person operating an open parking station from damage or loss caused by the negligence of such person, or any employee of such person, or while in the employ of such person. Section 11. REVOCATION OF LICENSE. The Board or Mayor may revoke any license, if at any time: 1. Licensee or any of his employees has knowingly made any false or materially incorrect statement in the application. a. The licensee or any of his employees knowingly violates, or know- ingly permits or countenances the violation of any provision of this ordinance. 3. The licensee or any of his employees knowingly violates, or knowingly permits or countenances the violation of any provision of any penal law, or ordinance regulating theft, larceny or conversion of a motor vehicle, or the operation of amotor vehicle without the owners consent; whether such licensee or other person is convicted of such offense or not. 4. The license of the licensee, or any of its members, officers, managers or employees has been revoked within five years prior thereto. Section 13. LICENSES NOT TO BE ISSUED. No license shall be issued to any person whose license has within five years prior to the date of the application been revoked; or to any firm, partnership, association or corpo- ration, any of whose members, officers or managers have had his or their license, or licenses, revoked within five years prior to the date of the application. Section 14. FIRE HAZARD. Open parking stations shall be equipped with proper fire extinguishing apparatus subject to the approval of the South Bend Fire Department, and all motor vehicles shall be so stored that they may be reached readily in case of fire, or other emergencies. - 3 ..