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Amending Title 12 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Traffic Code," to prohibit the stopping, standing, or parking of a motor vehicle on a public street or as otherwise prohibited for purposes of short dumping and authorization of enforcement through a camera-based enforcement system, and designating penalties and impoundment, all under certain terms and conditions.
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THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA HEREBY ORDAINS:
SECTION 1. Title 12 of The Philadelphia Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
TITLE 12. TRAFFIC CODE
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CHAPTER 12-900. PARKING REGULATIONS AND PENALTIES
? 12-924. Camera-Based Parking Enforcement System.
(1) The following violations of this Title 12 relating to prohibitions on stopping, standing, and parking vehicles, shall be enforceable through violation notices based on recorded images produced by a fixed or mobile camera-based parking enforcement system:
(a) Subsection 12-913(1)(a)(.1) relating to double parking.
(b) Subsection 12-923(3) relating to smart loading zones.
(c) Subsection 12-2709(1) relating to resident permit parking.
(d) Subsection 12-925 related to parking for purposes of short dumping.
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? 12-925. Parking for purposes of short dumping.
(1) Definitions.
(a) Short dumping. An activity by which an owner or operator, or an agent of either, of a trash, garbage or debris collection vehicle, including private automobiles and small trucks, or any other type of vehicles used to collect or transport trash, garbage or debris knowingly causes to be deposited or deposits the vehicle's load or any part thereof on or at:
(.1) any road, street, highway, alley, public park or plaza, other public place, railroad right-of-way or into the waters of the City, except in a clearly defined public trash receptacle;
(.2) the private property of another person without the prior written consent of the owner of such location and all required licenses...
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