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SALT LAKE CITY ORDINANCE
No. 38 of 2015
(Parking Exemption for Official Vehicles)
An ordinance amending section 12.56.590 of the Salt Lake City Code regarding the
exemption of official vehicles from certain requirements of the City's parking ordinances.
WHEREAS,the City has enacted ordinances governing parking within Salt Lake City;
and
WHEREAS,Salt Lake City Code section 12.56.590 provides a process whereby the City
can facilitate the registration and utilization of qualifying vehicles used for governmental or
quasi-governmental purposes in a manner that exempts such vehicles from certain aspects of the
City's parking ordinances;and
WHEREAS,the City now desires to update its ordinances governing parking exemptions
for qualifying vehicles;
NOW,THEREFORE,be it ordained by the City Council of Salt Lake City,Utah:
SECTION 1. That Section 12.56.590 of the Salt Lake City Code be,and the same
hereby is,amended as follows:
12.56.590:PARKING EXEMPTION FOR OFFICIAL VEHICLES:
A.Definitions:For purposes of this section,unless otherwise apparent from the context,certain
words and phrases used in this section are defined as follows:
EXEMPT VEHICLE:A marked official vehicle or a nonmarked official vehicle used by the
following persons:
I.City department directors.
2.City council members.
3.Operators of city fleet vehicles.
4.Designated city employees as determined by the mayor or the mayor's designee.
5.Designated employees or representatives of other governmental entities as determined
by the mayor or the mayor's designee.
6.Emergency services personnel and employees of enforcement agencies.
7.Employees or representatives of quasi-governmental entities as determined by the
mayor or the mayor's designee.
A personal vehicle may be considered an exempt vehicle if it is used by a person described
above for official governmental or quasi-governmental purposes.
MARKED OFFICIAL.VEHICLE: A vehicle owned or leased by a governmental or quasi-
governmental entity that a representative of the entity uses in the course of the representative's
official duties and that displays obvious official identification such as door symbols or light bars.
A governmental or exempt license plate alone does not satisfy the obvious official identification
requirement.
NONMARKED OFFICIAL VEHICLE:A vehicle,owned or leased by a governmental or quasi-
governmental entity,without obvious official identification such as door symbols or light bars
that a representative of the entity uses in the course of the representative's official duties,or a
nonmarked vehicle for which the city previously issued an official vehicle sticker or placard.
B.Registration:
1.In order for a nonmarked official vehicle to become an exempt vehicle,it must be
registered with the city's compliance director.The requesting agency's designated
primary contact can initiate the registration process by contacting the compliance
director's office and following the guidelines for the vehicle registration process.
Registration is not required for a marked official vehicle.A city department director may
allow an individual city employee to register his or her personal vehicle as an exempt
vehicle based on a documented need or requirement that will be included as part of the
registration process.
2.As part of the online registration,the entity shall provide the following information:
a.Entity's name.
b.Name of entity's primary contact.
c.Telephone number of entity's primary contact.
d.E-mail address of entity's primary contact.
c.Vehicle make.
f.Vehicle model.
g.Vehicle color.
h.Vehicle license plate number.
i.Vehicle identification number.
j.Vehicle primary driver.
k.Reason why the vehicle should be classified as an exempt vehicle.
I.Days of the week when exempt status is required.
m.Location(s)in Salt Lake City where exempt status is needed.
3.As a part of the registration process,the city's compliance program director shall
review all requests and approve or deny exempt vehicle status.Upon approval or
disapproval,the city shall notify the entity's primary contact of the approval or
disapproval.Upon receiving notice that their vehicles have been approved,a participating
agency must make payment to city in the amount listed in the Salt Lake City
Consolidated Fee Schedule for each nonmarked registered vehicle. This payment will be
made to the city online or through cashiers. Upon approval and receipt of payment,the
city shall include information about the registered exempt vehicle in the exempt vehicle
database maintained in the city's parking enforcement office.The exempt vehicle
database shall contain the information necessary to enable parking enforcement personnel
to identify an exempt vehicle when they enter the vehicle's license plate number in their
enforcement handheld device and to confirm exempt vehicle status and any status
limitations.
4.The city's compliance program director or the director's designee shall be responsible
for reviewing and approving any specific limitations for exempt vehicles,which
limitations may vary for each entity and each vehicle.
5.Exempt vehicles are subject to the generally applicable rules regarding restricted
parking locations(such as handicap,no parking.bus lanes,and residential parking permit
areas)and shall comply with non-parking related ordinances such as vehicle registration
requirements.Exempt vehicles will not receive citations for violations of the following
sections of this chapter: 12.56.150."Parking Meters;Installation and
Enforcement": 12.56.180,"Parking Meters:Restricted Spaces"; 12.56.190,"Parking
Meters:Overtime Parking Prohibited"; 12.56.300."Residential Parking hots Owned By
The City"; 12.56.450,"Time Limited Parking On Certain Streets";and 12.56.520,"Using
Streets For Storage Prohibited".The city's parking enforcement personnel will also
attempt to identify instances in which official vehicles are parked in violation of city
ordinances due to unavoidable or emergency circumstances related to official duties. If
the city's parking enforcement personnel are unable to identify the justification and
rationale for an exempt vehicle being parked in a restricted parking location,then a
citation shall he issued and the participating agency may establish justification for such
parking violations before a hearing officer as part of a review process.Registered city
exempt vehicles and city exempt vehicles used for emergency services are exempt from
all parking ordinances.
C.Maintenance:A registered exempt vehicle shall remain exempt only if it undergoes an annual
review and recertification process.The process shall be completed by the entity's primary contact
using the same method that was used for the initial registration and shall be completed when the
entity receives notification of completion from the city's parking enforcement office.Parking
enforcement's notification shall be sent by e-mail to the entity's primary contact.Approximately
eleven(11)calendar months after the initial registration or recertification of an exempt vehicle,
parking enforcement shall notify,by e-mail,the entity's primary contact of the need to recertify
the vehicle.Vehicles that are not recertified by the thirteenth month after initial registration or
recertification shall be automatically removed from the exempt vehicle database.An entity may
submit to the city's compliance director requests for changes to exempt vehicle status,new
requests,and changes to primary contact information,and the compliance director may make
those changes.
SECTION 2. That this ordinance shall become effective on September 1,2015.
Passed by the City Council of Salt Lake City,Utah this 16 day of June 2015.
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CITY RECORDER
Transmitted to Mayor on June 22, 2015 •
Mayor's Action: Approved. Vetoed.
MAYOR
CITY RECORDER
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Published: July 1, 2015
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