[Amended 4-4-1966; 9-15-1980]
In accordance with the provisions of § 7-207a
of the Connecticut General Statutes, as amended, the Parking Commission
of the City is hereby authorized to collect and receive all revenue
from parking meters located on public streets in the City and to establish
metered on-street parking zones, subject to modification or restriction
of such zones by the Traffic Authority.
[Amended 4-4-1966]
All existing parking meters shall become the
property of the Parking Commission, and such authority shall succeed
to all the obligations of the City relative to the payment of such
meters.
[Amended 4-4-1966]
The revenues from such meters shall be used
by the Parking Commission for the regulation and control of the parking
of vehicles in parking meter on-street and off-street zones, for the
cost of purchase, installation, operation, inspection, supervision
and maintenance of parking meters and for acquiring, operating and
maintaining off-street parking facilities.
[Amended 4-4-1966]
The revenues from such meters shall be shown
as a distinct and separate item on the annual financial report of
the Parking Commission.
Whenever, because of traffic conditions or otherwise,
the parking of vehicles on any street or part thereof cannot, in the
opinion of the Traffic Authority, be adequately and efficiently regulated
and controlled otherwise, it may authorize the installation of parking
meters and designate parking meter zones, fix the zone parking fee
and the legal parking time in such zones and also fix the hours during
which the use of parking meters shall be required.
[Amended 9-15-1980]
The Chief of Police shall cause lines or markers
to be placed upon the curb or pavement, or both, of the street adjacent
to each parking meter in a parking meter zone, designating the parking
space for which such meter is to be used.
When any vehicle is parked in a space adjacent
to which a parking meter is located, the operator of such vehicle
shall park it within the lines or marks established, unless such vehicle's
length, width or load overlaps such lines or marks, and, upon entering
such space, shall immediately deposit or cause to be deposited in
such parking meter such coin of the United States as is required by
the Traffic Authority for such parking meter and as is designated
by proper directions on the meter. When required by directions on
the meter, the operator of such vehicle, after the deposit of the
required coin, shall also completely turn, or cause to be so turned,
the crank handle on the meter for the purpose of starting the timing
mechanism.
Upon the deposit of the required coin and the
placing of a parking meter in operation, the meter space may be lawfully
occupied by a vehicle during the period of parking time which has
been prescribed for the part of the street in which such meter space
is located.
If a vehicle remains parked in any parking meter
space beyond the parking time limit fixed for such space and the parking
meter by its dial and pointer, or otherwise, indicates such unlawful
parking, such vehicle shall be deemed unlawfully parked.
It shall be unlawful for any person to deposit
or cause to be deposited in any parking meter additional coins of
the United States for the purpose of increasing or extending the legal
parking time which has been established by the Traffic Authority for
the parking meter space adjacent to which such meter is placed.
Vehicles bearing commercial license plates may
occupy the space adjacent to any parking meter for the purpose of
loading or unloading merchandise or packages without the deposit of
a proper coin in the meter, provided that such loading or unloading
is done as expeditiously as possible.
It shall be unlawful for any unauthorized person
to deface, damage, tamper with or open or willfully break, destroy
or impair the usefulness of any parking meter installed under the
provisions of this article or to aid or abet any such action.
It shall be unlawful for any person to deposit
or cause to be deposited in any parking meter any slug, device or
substitute for a coin of the United States.
