(A) Parking; registration and permit
required. No faculty member, staff member,
employee or student shall at any time
park a motor
vehicle on any
street, roadway,
land or
property
or grounds of the university without
first registering such motor vehicle with
transportation and
the parking services
operator
and
obtaining a permit and displaying such permit on the registered vehicle, unless
such vehicle is parked in a pay
parking facility or a
parking area not
controlled by the
department
parking operator
. Visitors may
not park a motor vehicle
on any street, roadway, property or grounds of the
university except at
parking meters, in pay facilities or by
first obtaining a permit and paying the
prescribed fee. Contractors
and,
vendors
and other
agents shall follow the same registration procedures as faculty, staff
and students.
(B) Application
forms;
fees. Registration of motor vehicles, as required in this chapter, shall
be made using application for
parking permit forms prescribed by
transportation and
the parking services
operator
.
Such application forms shall be accompanied by
fees established
by the department, approved by the senior vice
president for business and finance of the university and adopted by the board
of trustees
in accordance with the concession
agreement
.
(C) Giving false
information. No person shall give false information when registering a motor
vehicle or applying for a permit as provided in this chapter. If such
information is given by any person, the registration may be held to be invalid
and the permit or decal issued may be revoked and such person giving such false
information may be denied registration for a period of one calendar year
and, in addition, the person may be referred to
proper university authorities for additional disciplinary action as deemed
appropriate.
(D) Permits
generally.
Parking permits shall be issued to applicants in accordance with the
criteria and the fee paid for such issuance as established by
transportation and
the parking services
operator and the
concession agreement
. Registration is not considered complete until the
valid permit or decal is appropriately displayed on the vehicle according to
instructions on the back of the permit or decal or as otherwise published by
the
department
parking operator
.
(E) Fees. Fees shall be charged for
motor vehicle permits and collected from the applicant at the time application
is made. Funds derived from such fees shall be deposited in a fund established
for such purpose and such funds shall be used for establishment and maintenance
of traffic controls, facilities for parking and equipment, and for enforcement
and personnel, including, but not limited to, the acquisition of permits or
decals, signs and parking meters; construction and maintenance of parking
facilities, traffic control devices and other materials and projects for the
control of traffic and parking; the maintenance, repair and extension of
existing facilities; and the provision of campus transportation services to
facilitate parking and traffic. Such funds shall also be pledged in support of
payment of such bonds as may be issued for the aforesaid purposes and for
salaries of traffic control and parking personnel. Such fees for the Columbus
campus of the Ohio state university shall be as established by the department,
approved by the senior vice president for business and finance and adopted by
the board of trustees.
(F) Motorcycle parking. Motorcycles
with Columbus campus motorcycle permits shall park only in areas designated as
two and three-wheeled motor vehicle areas between the hours of five a.m. and
four p.m. Monday through Friday. Motorcycles displaying motorcycle permits
shall be allowed to park in four-wheeled motor vehicle areas between the hours
of four p.m. and two a.m. Monday through Friday, and on weekends beginning at
four p.m. Friday through two a.m. Monday, except certain areas or zones which
may be designated as restricted, limited or reserved and signs shall be posted
in accordance with paragraph (E)(5) of rule 3335-21-20 of the Administrative
Code.
(G) Reserved area permits. A
reserved area parking privilege may be granted under the rules and procedures
established by the department.
(H) Additional motor vehicle
registration and permits. Faculty, staff, and students may register and obtain
a permit for a second motor vehicle upon meeting specified criteria and upon
payment of a fee established by the department, approved by the senior vice
president for business and finance and adopted by the board of
trustees.
(I)
(E) Disability
permits. Disability permits, allowing the holders thereof to
park in areas
other than those for which they already hold permits or in which they are
already qualified to
park under the rules of the
department
parking
operator
, may be issued to students, faculty or staff
.
after proof of disability
has been established to the satisfaction of the student health center and the
office for disability services and certified by a letter to transportation and
parking services. Parking under authority of a
A university disability permit
may include on-street parking after two
a.m.
shall be issued to any individual who
already has a valid state disability permit; the university permit will expire
when the state permit expires. All vehicles parked in reserved
disability spaces shall display the license
number corresponding to the license number on the sign.
(1) Special
parking locations and privileges
for the handicapped shall be provided and designated by the
department
university. Such locations shall be reasonably close
to exits, entrances, elevators and garages.
(2) No person who is not handicapped or
operating a motor vehicle to transport a handicapped person shall
stop,
stand
or
park any motor vehicle at special
parking locations provided for the
handicapped under this paragraph.
(J) Parking at short courses,
workshops, special events and conference meetings. The department shall
establish rules by which arrangements shall be made to provide parking for
visitors who are to attend and take part in short courses, workshops, special
events and other conference meetings. Established fees shall be charged for
parking. In general, such rules shall provide that individuals or departments
or the conference coordinator, at least ten days prior to the commencement of
the event, shall notify the department of the location of the event and the
number of persons involved and shall give other information as requested. Upon
receipt of such information, arrangements shall be made to provide parking
options for the persons participating, and appropriate permits shall be issued
designating the area in which those persons may park their vehicles. Any
special permits needed for events not outlined in this paragraph must be
approved by the director of transportation and parking services prior to their
issuance.
(K) Retiree permits. Retiree parking
permits may be issued to eligible retired faculty members and administrative,
professional and classified staff who anticipate the need for occasional
parking on campus after their retirement. Eligibility, issuance of permits and
appropriate fees for this program shall be established by the department,
subject to the approval of the senior vice president for business and finance
of the university and approved by the board of trustees.
(L) Press permits.
(1) Transportation and parking
services has developed a press parking permit. The office of university
relations shall distribute these permits to media personnel only and shall
provide transportation and parking services with the name, affiliation and
license number(s) of persons to whom such permits are issued. This permit will
allow parking as defined on the back of the permit while the news media
representative is on official business only.
(2) Faculty, staff or students
affiliated with the university must also purchase and display a valid
university parking permit.
(3) Citations shall be issued when a
vehicle is improperly parked or creating a hazard or the permit is being used
improperly.
(4) Citations for violations shall
be voided only on a case-by-case basis according to regular appeal
procedures.
(5) Media representatives who
identify themselves as such will be allowed inside the traffic control
area.
(6) The office of university
relations shall alert media representatives of these
procedures.
(7) These permits shall be issued on
an annual basis or as needed to meet short-term needs.
(M) Expiration of permits. Permits
described in this chapter, when issued, shall expire as identified on the
permit.
(N)
(F) Display of
permits; transfer of vehicles. Permits, decals, or cards for the current
period, are issued to a specific individual or department, and shall be
displayed in a motor vehicle and used in accordance with the rules
of transportation and
the parking services
operator
.
(1) Permits -
Transportation and
The parking services
operator
shall be notified if new license plates are obtained.
(2) Decals - If a motor vehicle for which a
permit has been issued is transferred, or windshield replaced, the decal shall
be removed from the vehicle and the remnants presented to the
department
parking
operator
for issuance of a new decal. If no such remnants are presented
for replacement decals the applicant must show proof that the decal is
unobtainable, and an affidavit shall be signed certifying that the previous
decals have been destroyed and shall assume full responsibility for their
unauthorized use if found in service. If the applicant cannot show proof that
the decals are unobtainable, the issuance of decals shall be at the established
fee for original registration.
(O)
(G) Unauthorized use
of permit.
Parking permits are not transferable to other individuals. Persons
having registered vehicles and displaying a permit, may not allow their
registered vehicle to be parked on campus by any person other than the
registrant. The appropriate assessment shall be made for each
violation. This
rule regulation shall not apply in lots not
under the control of
transportation and
the parking services
operator
or
in pay facilities if the full
parking fee is paid.
The permit is the property of the
Ohio state university and may be recalled if not used in accordance with
university rules.
A violator of this paragraph
shall for a first offense, receive a citation and be assessed the appropriate
fee. A second violation will result in an assessment and may result in the loss
of parking privileges for the remainder of the academic year.
Unauthorized use of decal/key cards.
In some cases, parking decals are issued with a separate keycard. When this
occurs, the keycard may only be used in conjunction with the
decal.
(P)
(H) Defacing,
reproduction of and use of revoked permits. No person shall deface, reproduce
or use a
parking permit, decal or sticker contrary to these
rules
regulations and no person shall use a permit, decal or
sticker after the same has been revoked.
(Q)
(I) Parking of unregistered vehicles. No person who is
required to register a motor vehicle and display a
parking permit, but who has
not so registered, shall
park such motor vehicle on any
street, roadway,
land or property
or
grounds of the university unless parked in a pay facility or at a paid
parking meter. Whoever violates this
paragraph
section
shall be
assessed
charged the appropriate fee
, or referred to university authorities for disciplinary
action deemed appropriate, or both.
(R)
(J) Reserved
parking
areas. Certain
parking areas,
by rule of
transportation and parking services
as
established in accordance with the concession agreement
, may be reserved
at all times or at special times. If
such
rules
or regulations relating to reservation are
promulgated, they shall be effective upon the placement of signs giving notice
of such reservation and limitation on
parking areas so selected.
(S)
(K)
Parking reciprocity
authority among campuses.
(1) Parking privileges for motor
vehicles registered with the university are reciprocal in comparable areas
between all regional campuses of the university and the Columbus campus only if
the current Columbus permit is displayed.
(2) All vehicles not displaying
current Columbus campus permits shall use pay parking facilities
exclusively.
(3) The university has
delegated the authority to administer, regulate and enforce traffic and parking
on each of the university's regional campuses to the dean/director of their
campuses. Each regional campus has on file in the
office of the director of transportation and parking services a copy of its
rules as approved by the regional campus dean and director. In addition, these
rules are approved by the board of trustees of each technical college sharing a
university regional campus.
(T)
(L) Visitor
parking.
All visitors to the campus shall
park in pay
parking areas designated by
transportation and
the parking services
operator
or
display a valid visitor
parking permit.
