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SALT LAKE CITY ORDINANCE
No. 82 of 2005
(Free Metered Parking for)
(Alternative Fuel, Fuel Efficient and Low Polluting Vehicles}
AN ORDINANCE ENACTING SECTION 12.56.205, SALT LAKE CITY CODE,
PERTAINING TO FREE METERED PARKING FOR ALTERNATIVE FUEL, FUEL
EFFICIENT AND LOW POLLUTING VEHICLES.
Be it ordained by the City Council of Salt Lake City, Utah:
SECTION 1. That Section 12.56.205, Salt Lake City Code, pertaining to free metered
parking for alternative fuel, fuel efficient and low polluting vehicles be, and the same hereby is,
enacted to read as follows:
12.56.205 Parking Meters —No Charge for Alternative Fuel, Fuel Efficient and Low
Polluting Vehicles.
A. Definitions. The following definitions shall apply to this section:
1. "Alternative Fuel" means propane, compressed natural gas, electricity, or any
motor or special fuel that meets the clean fuel vehicle standards in the Federal Clean Air Act
Amendments of 1990, Title II, as amended;
2. "Alternative Fuel Vehicle" means a vehicle with an engine powered full or
part-time by an Alternative Fuel;
3. "Clean Fuel License Plate" means a special group license plate issued by the
Utah Department of Motor Vehicles as authorized by Utah Code 41-1a-418, or its successor;
4. "Division" means the City's Transportation Division.
5. "Fuel Efficient Vehicle" means a vehicle that is powered by gasoline or diesel
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that achieves a city-driving fuel efficiency of 50 or more miles per gallon;
6. "Low Polluting Vehicle" means a vehicle that achieves an Environmental
Protection Agency(EPA) Air Pollution Score of at least 8 on the EPA vehicle rating scale of 0—
10;
B. 1. The Division shall issue a vehicle windshield sticker to all persons applying for
such sticker who provide evidence acceptable to the Division that the vehicle for which the
sticker is desired is a Fuel Efficient Vehicle or a Low Polluting Vehicle as defined in subsection
A of this Section. Motorcycles and other vehicles that are not automobiles shall not be issued a
sticker pursuant to this Section.
2. The recipient of the sticker shall affix it only to the driver's side of the front
windshield of the vehicle for which it is issued so that it is readily visible.
C. Parking meter spaces may be used without charge on all days of the week at all hours
by vehicles properly displaying the sticker referred to in subsection B of this Section or vehicles
displaying a Clean Fuel License Plate.
D. No person parking a vehicle without charge pursuant to this Section shall park or
permit such vehicle to remain parked in any parking meter space adjacent to a meter for a
continuous period longer than that designated on the meter, nor shall they park in restricted
spaces pursuant to Section 12.56.180.
E. In assessing the evidence provided by an applicant for such sticker as set forth in
subsection B.1 of this Section, the Division may consider:
(1) the fuel efficiency information for particular years and models of vehicles
determined by the Department of Energy and the Environment Protection Agency as shown in
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their website at www.fueleconomy.gov or its successor website; and
(2) The EPA's annual Green Vehicle Guide as found at the website
www.epa.gov/greenvehicles or its successor website.
SECTION 2. This ordinance shall take effect immediately upon the date of its first
publication.
Passed by the City Council of Salt Lake City, Utah this 6th _ day of December
2005.
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Transmitted to Mayor on December 8, 2005 .
Mayor's Action: K Approved. Vetoed.
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