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WAC 106-116: Parking and Traffic Regulations
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Sections:
106-116-011 Preamble.
106-116-020 Objectives of parking and traffic rules and regulations.
106-116-030 Applicable traffic rules and regulations.
106-116-042 Infractions.
106-116-102 Permit required.
106-116-103 Additional or replacement vehicles.
106-116-10401 Animal traffic.
106-116-201 Permitted parking areas.
106-116-202 No parking areas.
106-116-203 Specific parking prohibitions.
106-116-205 Apartment residents.
106-116-206 Locating legal parking space.
106-116-207 Staff parking.
106-116-208 Fire lanes and service drives.
106-116-210 Parking within designated spaces.
106-116-212 Liability.
106-116-213 Parking of trailers, campers, and similar purpose vehicles on campus.
106-116-214 Mall traffic.
106-116-303 Display of permits.
106-116-304 Disability parking permit.
106-116-305 General permits.
106-116-308 Replacement of parking permit.
106-116-310 Contractor parking permits.
106-116-311 Parking fee refunds.
106-116-312 Permit revocation.
106-116-313 Carpool permits.
106-116-410 Continuous parking.
106-116-501 Basic speed limit.
106-116-513 Procedure – Infractions and service thereof.
106-116-514 Election to forfeit or contest.
106-116-515 Procedure – Complaint and information.
106-116-521 Monetary penalties.
106-116-601 Traffic regulation signs, markings, barricades, etc.
106-116-603 Monetary penalty schedule.
106-116-701 Impounding procedures.
106-116-702 Inoperative vehicles.
106-116-801 Motorcycle regulations.
106-116-850 Skateboard regulations.
106-116-853 Definitions.
106-116-856 Alternative transportation regulations.
106-116-859 Enforcement.
106-116-901 Bicycle parking and traffic regulations.
106-116-902 Severability.
Preamble.
Drivers on the property of Central Washington University are responsible for their vehicle's safe and lawful operation. A CWU parking permit or daily permit is required in designated parking lots. Individuals operating or parking vehicles on university-owned property must do so in compliance with these regulations, and ordinances and laws of the city of Ellensburg, county of Kittitas, and state of Washington.
Objectives of parking and traffic rules and regulations.
(1) To protect and control pedestrian and vehicular traffic.
(2) To assure access at all times for emergency equipment.
(3) To minimize traffic disturbance during class hours.
(4) To facilitate the work of the university by assuring access by vehicles and by assigning the limited parking space for the most efficient use.
Applicable traffic rules and regulations.
(1) The motor vehicle code and other traffic laws of the state of Washington shall be applicable upon all lands located within the state of Washington.
(2) The traffic code of the city of Ellensburg shall be applicable upon all lands located within the city of Ellensburg.
(3) These regulations shall be applicable to all lands owned and leased by Central Washington University.
Infractions.
The public safety and police services department and its duly sworn officers have authority to issue infractions for violations of Washington Administrative Codes and ordinances and laws of the city of Ellensburg, county of Kittitas, and state of Washington, when violations occur.
Permit required.
(1) A permit is required for all motor vehicles that park on posted university grounds at specified times. Fees may be charged and parking permits issued, which will allow vehicles to be parked in specific areas.
(2) A faculty, staff, or student owner, operator, and/or permit holder for a motor vehicle shall be held responsible for any violation involving that vehicle.
Additional or replacement vehicles.
If you have a current CWU parking permit and obtain an additional or different motor vehicle, you must register that vehicle with parking services.
Animal traffic.
It shall be unlawful for any person to drive, lead, walk, or ride any cattle, horse, or beast of burden upon any of the lawns, beds, sidewalks, malls, service drives, or parking lots of Central Washington University except as authorized by permit by the chief of public safety and police services for parades and university-sponsored activities.
Permitted parking areas.
University-owned parking areas are posted with permitting requirements. Permit requirements will be enforced Monday through Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., unless otherwise posted. No parking is permitted from 2:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m. where posted. During quarter breaks, parking services may designate a specific lot for parking vehicles that will remain parked in a university parking lot for the quarter break.
No parking areas.
The university reserves the right to close specific lots to permit holders and designate parking lot use for special events (i.e., sports events, concerts, camps, etc.).
Parking is permitted only in areas designated and marked for parking in accordance with all signs posted in the designated parking area.
For example, prohibited areas include fire hydrants, fire lanes, yellow curb zones, crosswalks, driveways, service drives, or any area not expressly permitted by sign or these regulations. Vehicles are not permitted to be parked on any undeveloped university property without the approval of the chief of the public safety and police services. This section will be enforced twenty-four hours a day.
Specific parking prohibitions.
(1) Parking in areas and places normally used for moving traffic is a specific violation of these regulations.
(2) Parking in such a position with relation to other parked cars or marked parking spaces as to impede, restrict, or prevent free ingress or egress by other automobiles violates these regulations.
(3) Parking in areas marked for a special permit or clearly designated by signing for special use not available to the general public or regular permit holders is prohibited. Examples: Parking in a space marked "disability permit only," or "health center permit only," or "psychology permit only."
(4) Parking and/or driving on sidewalks is prohibited.
(5) Parking or driving on lawns or flower beds is prohibited.
(6) Compact car zones are placed there for safety reasons. These spaces are to be used by small cars only. This restriction includes any size of the following vehicles: Pickups, sport utility vehicles, station wagons or any other large vehicles.
Apartment residents.
Apartment residents may be required to display resident parking identification permits to park in the parking area adjacent to their respective apartments but must register their vehicles with the housing office.
Locating legal parking space.
(1) The responsibility for locating legal parking space rests with the operator of the motor vehicle. Lack of space will not be considered a valid excuse for violating any parking regulation.
(2) The fact that a person may park or observe others parked in violation of the regulations without receiving an infraction notice does not mean that the regulation is no longer in effect.
Staff parking.
Staff parking zones are posted and require staff permits.
Fire lanes and service drives.
Parking is not allowed at any time in the service drives or fire lanes of any campus building. Fire lanes and service drives may be used by service and emergency vehicles. After the required load/unload permit has been obtained, vendor and student-owned vehicles may use the service drives to load or unload items. These permits are available at the public safety and police services department or the parking kiosk.
Parking within designated spaces.
All vehicles shall be parked between designated lines or spaces otherwise designated.
Liability.
Neither the university nor its employees shall be liable for damages to or theft from a vehicle while parked in university-owned parking lots.
Parking of trailers, campers, and similar purpose vehicles on campus.
It shall be unlawful for any individual, firm, or corporation to park any type of vehicle on the grounds of Central Washington University for the purpose of using such vehicle as a living unit.
Any exception must be approved, in writing; by the chief of public safety and police services.
Mall traffic.
(1) Only service vehicles are permitted on pedestrian malls at times of very light pedestrian traffic.
(2) Vehicles on clear emergency business with warning equipment operating are an exception to the provisions of this paragraph. Examples: Fire trucks, ambulances, police cars, and equipment for emergency repair.
Display of permits.
(1) Parking permits shall be conspicuously hung from the inside rearview mirror, or other location specified at time of issuance.
(2) Special permits must be displayed in the manner described at time of issuance.
Disability parking permit.
Any university employee, student, or visitor who can show physical disability may apply at disability support services for a disability parking permit. Certification by a physician may be required. Disability permits issued by the state of Washington in all forms and disability permits issued by other state agencies or institutions shall be honored. Additionally, a CWU parking permit or daily permit is necessary in parking lots normally requiring permits.
General permits.
(1) Daily parking permits are available from the automatic ticket dispensers and cashier's office. These permits must be displayed in clear view on the dash of the vehicle or as instructed on the permit, readable from outside the vehicle.
(2) Thirty-minute "load/unload permits" are available for loading and unloading. Load/unload permits are available to vendors conducting business on campus, service vehicles, and student vehicles. Load/unload permits are available at the public safety and police services department and the parking kiosk.
(3) No permits are available for inoperative or disabled vehicles. Public safety and police services should be contacted if your vehicle becomes disabled in a university-owned parking lot.
(4) Quarterly, academic year, and calendar year permits are available to staff and students through the cashier's office and parking services.
Replacement of parking permit.
Lost or stolen parking permits must be reported to the public safety and police services department. A replacement request must be completed at parking services. Upon verification, the permit may be replaced for a $10.00 processing fee.
Contractor parking permits.
All contractors responsible for construction projects on the campus or for repair and maintenance contracts and those who make continuous deliveries of supplies must contact the public safety and police services department, prior to starting work, to obtain permits for the parking of those vehicles necessary to carry on the work.
Parking fee refunds.
(1) Application for parking permit fee refunds are to be made at the parking office. The parking permit must be surrendered upon application for a refund.
(2) A full parking fee refund is obtainable only within the first seven calendar days of any academic quarter in which the permit is issued.
(3) Refunds are permitted of a prorated basis only under the following conditions:
(a) Student teaching, or other off-campus program;
(b) Withdrawal from the university;
(c) Termination of employment.
(4) Refunds will not be made for daily permits.
(5) Prorated refunds will be measured upward to the nearest 1/3, 2/3, and full cost increments.
Permit revocation.
Parking permits are the property of the university and will be recalled for any of the following reasons:
(1) When the purpose for which the permit was issued, changes or no longer exists.
(2) When a permit is used on an unregistered vehicle or by an unauthorized individual.
(3) When there is falsification of the vehicle ownership statement.
(4) When there is counterfeiting or altering of a parking permit.
Carpool permits.
(1) Carpool permits may be issued to employees and students. One transferable permit will be issued by parking services for each carpool. This permit is transferable only among the registered members of the carpool. This permit must be displayed in accordance with the instructions provided with the permit. Parking services will establish the number of persons needed to make up a carpool group. A carpool group must commute to the campus in the same vehicle and live outside the buffer zone established by parking services (http://www.cwu.edu/~parking). Carpool vehicles must be parked in designated parking stalls.
(2) Violations of this section will be subject to a fine and/or revocation of the carpool permit.
Continuous parking.
Vehicles receiving an infraction notice for violating parking and traffic regulations and which have not been moved within twenty-four hours following the issuance of the original infraction notice, shall be in violation of this section, and may be subject to removal at owner's expense.
Basic speed limit.
The speed limit on the university-owned streets shall be as posted, except:
(1) The speed limit in the parking areas is 15 m.p.h.
(2) No person shall operate a motor vehicle on the campus at a speed greater than is reasonable and prudent for existing conditions.
(3) The speed limit on malls and service drives is 10 m.p.h.
Procedure—Infractions and service thereof.
Upon probable cause to believe that a violation of these regulations has occurred, an appropriate notice of infraction may be issued setting forth the date, the approximate time, the locality, and the nature of the violation. Such notice may be served by delivering or attaching a copy thereof to the alleged violator, or by placing a copy thereof in some prominent place within or upon the vehicle. Service by mail shall be accomplished by placing a copy of the notice in the mail addressed to the alleged violator.
Election to forfeit or contest.
The notice of infraction issued pursuant to WAC 106-116-513 of these regulations shall inform the alleged violator that he/she may elect either to forfeit the monetary penalty to the infraction(s) charged or to contest the matter(s).
(1) If the alleged violator chooses to forfeit the penalty, he/she may do so by paying the appropriate amount to the cashier's office, Barge Hall. Payment will be in cash, check, certified check, credit or debit card, or by money order. Such payment may also be made by mail (other than cash payment). Such forfeiture shall constitute a waiver of a right to a hearing.
(2) If the alleged violator chooses to contest, he/she may do so by contacting parking services, where parking infraction appeal forms are available upon request or you may obtain an appeal form or complete an appeal form on the parking website, http://www.cwu.edu/~parking/appealprocess.html. The completed form stating the reasons for challenging the validity of the assessed obligation must be filed in the parking office within fifteen days of the date of the infraction notice. The appeal must be reviewed by the university parking appeal board. The parking appeal board will render a decision in good faith.
(3) A person charged with a parking infraction who deems himself or herself aggrieved by the final decision of the university parking appeal board may, within ten days after written notice of the final decision, appeal by filing a written notice thereof with the public safety and police services department. Documents relating to the appeal shall immediately be forwarded to the lower Kittitas County district court which shall have jurisdiction over such offense and such appeal shall be heard de novo.
Procedure—Complaint and information.
(1) An infraction notice served in accordance with the provisions of WAC 106-116-513 of these regulations shall constitute the complaint or information against the person to whom delivered or mailed. The person to whom the vehicle permit was issued shall be held liable, or if no permit has been issued, the owner of the vehicle shall be held liable.
(2) The complaint or information may be amended at any time, either in writing (delivered or mailed to the alleged violator) or upon motion at a judicial hearing in his or her presence, to include new charges of violations of these regulations.
Monetary penalties.
(1) The monetary penalties to be assessed for violations of these regulations shall be those detailed in WAC 106-116-603.
(2) The chief of public safety and police services or designee will cause:
(a) These regulations or a reasonable condensation thereof to be prominently displayed in the public safety and police services department.
(b) The amount of the monetary penalty to be written on the parking-violation notices served on alleged violators.
(c) Removal or immobilization of vehicles at owner's expense when infractions remain unpaid.
Traffic regulation signs, markings, barricades, etc.
(1) The director of the public safety and police services department or designee are authorized to erect signs, barricades, and other structures and to paint marks and other directions upon the streets and roadways for the regulation of traffic and parking upon state lands devoted mainly to the educational or research activities of Central Washington University. Such signs, barricades, structures, markings, and directions shall be so made and placed as to, in the opinion of the director of public safety and police services or designee, best effectuate the objectives stated in WAC 106-116-020 of these regulations.
(2) No sign, barricade, structure, marking, or direction for the purpose of regulating traffic or parking shall be moved, defaced, or in any way changed by any person without authorization from the director of public safety and police services.
Monetary penalty schedule.
A monetary penalty schedule is available online at http://www.cwu.edu/~parking/wacrules.html#monetary.
Failure to respond within twenty-eight days will result in doubling of the original monetary penalty and an administrative fee. However, in accordance with RCW 46.63.110(4), the penalty for failure to respond shall not exceed $25.00 for any single infraction. Further failure to respond may result in one or more of the following sanctions:
(1) Withholding of transcripts;
(2) Deduction from payroll checks;
(3) Withholding of parking permits; and/or
(4) Referral to collection agency.
Impounding procedures.
(1) Any vehicle parked upon the Central Washington University campus lands in violation of these regulations, including the motor vehicle and other traffic laws of the state of Washington and the traffic code of the city of Ellensburg, may be impounded and taken to such place for storage as the director of public safety and police services selects.
(2) The expense of such impounding and storage shall be charged to the owner or operator of the vehicle and paid prior to the release of the vehicle.
(3) CWU and its employees shall not be liable for loss or damage of any kind resulting from such immobilization, impounding and storage.
Inoperative vehicles.
Disabled or inoperative vehicles shall be removed from the campus within seventy-two hours (three days). Vehicles which have been parked in excess of seventy-two hours (three days) and which appear to be inoperative or unmovable may be impounded and stored at the expense of the owner and/or operator.
Motorcycle regulations.
Motorcycle operators will be expected to obey the same traffic, parking, and registration regulations as automobile operators on campus.
Motorcycle operators should use designated motorcycle parking areas when provided.
Skateboard regulations.
The purposes of WAC 106-116-850 through 106-116-859 are:
(1) To protect and control pedestrian traffic and traffic of persons using skateboards.
(2) To protect wooden and concrete benches, ramps for the disabled, brick and paved walkways, stairs, steps, loading ramps, and plazas from physical damage and more than ordinary wear caused by use of skateboards.
Definitions.
As used in WAC 106-116-850 through 106-116-859 "skateboard" means a device made of wood, plastic, metal, or components thereof, with wheels, ridden, as down an incline, usually in a standing position. It may or may not be motorized.
Alternative transportation regulations.
The use of bicycles, electric bicycles, skateboards, nonmotorized scooters, electric scooters and in-line skates shall be allowed only as a means of transportation on pedestrian malls, sidewalks, walkways and vehicular traffic ways of CWU. Anyone using a bicycle, electric bicycle, skateboard, nonmotorized scooter, electric scooter or in-line skates on CWU property shall give right of way to any pedestrian and shall travel at a reasonable, safe and prudent speed. Under no circumstance will bicycling, skateboarding or in-line skating be allowed on ramps, curbs, benches, steps or stairs or other such structures. The use of bicycles, electric bicycles, skateboards, nonmotorized scooters, electric scooters or in-line skates shall not be permitted inside any building or within twenty feet of a building entrance or exit. While in use, bicycles, skateboards, scooters and in-line skates shall be operated in a safe, reasonable and prudent manner such as all wheels shall remain on the ground.
Enforcement.
A person refusing to abide by these regulations will be asked to leave the campus. Refusal to leave will subject the person to being cited for trespass under the provisions of RCW 9A.52.070 and/or 9A.52.080, the Revised Code of Washington. If the violator is a student, they will be asked to abide by the regulations. If the student refuses, a proceeding may be initiated under chapter 106-120 WAC, the student judicial code.
Bicycle parking and traffic regulations.
(1) The primary aim of the bicycle control program is safety, and this aim will be achieved by keeping bicycles out of buildings, away from building exits, and parking them off paths and sidewalks. Bicycles must never be parked in stairwells, hallways, or any place which will be a safety hazard or hinder exit from buildings.
(2) Bicycles must be parked in racks. At times, rack space may not be available and parking near the racks is permitted provided the parked bicycles do not interfere with pedestrian traffic.
(3) The following specific regulations must be observed while operating bicycles on campus:
(a) Do not ride bicycles inside buildings at any time.
(b) Do not lean or park bicycles near or against windows.
(c) Pedestrians have the right of way on all malls and sidewalk areas of the university. At all times and places of congested pedestrian traffic, the bicycle rider must go slowly and yield to pedestrians. A violation of this provision shall constitute a moving violation and shall be referred directly to the court of the judge of the Lower Kittitas County district court.
(d) Bicyclists must observe the 10 m.p.h. speed limits on malls and service drives.
(e) Bicyclists must ride in designated lanes where they exist.
(4) Impoundment policy:
(a) Bicycles parked on paths, sidewalks, in buildings, or near building exits may be impounded, except in areas adjacent to residence halls, or as otherwise permitted and designated by the director of residential services as bike storage rooms. Bicycles left over seventy-two hours may be impounded.
(b) Impounded bicycles will be stored in a location determined by the chief of public safety and police services. Bicycles will be released at specific times and upon presentation of proof of ownership. Owners of impounded bicycles, if identifiable, will be notified immediately upon impoundment and must reclaim the bicycle within seven days.
(c) Abandoned, lost, or found bicycles that have been impounded shall be subject to sale in accordance with the laws of the state of Washington.
Severability.
If any provision of these regulations or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the separate paragraphs and provisions of these regulations are severable.