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File #: 2013-1648    Version: 1
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed Finally
File created: 6/25/2013 In control: Committee on Public Safety Services
On agenda: Final action: 7/9/2013
Enactment date: 7/9/2013 Enactment #: 17
Effective date: 7/15/2013    
Title: Ordinance amending the Pittsburgh Code at Title Five: Traffic, Article VII: Parking, Chapter 548: Valet Parking so as to clarify the Valet Parking Ordinance
Sponsors: R. Daniel Lavelle
Indexes: PGH. CODE ORDINANCES TITLE 05 - TRAFFIC
Attachments: 1. 2013-1648.doc
Title
Ordinance amending the Pittsburgh Code at Title Five: Traffic, Article VII: Parking, Chapter 548: Valet Parking so as to clarify the Valet Parking Ordinance

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The Council of the City of Pittsburgh hereby enacts as follows:



Section 1. The Pittsburgh Code, Title Five, Traffic, is hereby amended at Chapter 548, as follows:

CHAPTER 548: VALET PARKING
§ 548.01 - DEFINITIONS

For the purpose of this Chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings as set forth:
(a) Valet Parking Operator means a person or business who employs one or more attendants for the purpose of providing a valet parking service or who contracts said services to a business establishment for the purpose of providing a valet parking service to such establishment.
(b) Valet Parking Service means a parking service provided to accommodate patrons of any business establishment by which a valet parking operator or attendant takes temporary custody of the patrons' motor vehicle and moves, parks, stores, and/or retrieves the vehicle for the patrons' convenience, regardless of whether a fee is charged.

§ 548.02 - License
(a) No valet parking service is permitted unless a license allowing such activity has been issued pursuant to this Chapter. A separate license is required for each valet parking service location.
(b) Applications for valet parking operator licenses shall be made to the Director of Public Works or his/her designee in a form to be set by the Director. Each valet parking operator license issued shall be for a one-year period only.
(c) The fee for each valet parking operator license shall be $100 per year. The renewal of each valet parking operator license shall be $100 per year. The fees may be adjusted at the discretion of the Director of Public Works, who shall annually report such adjustments to Council.
(d) Valet parking operator licenses shall be nontransferable.
(e) A valet parking operator license shall not be issued without...

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