[Amended 11-24-2008 by Ord. No. 791]
A.
Parking
meter zones heretofore established by the Mayor and Common Council
and in which parking meters are in place immediately prior to the
effective date of this chapter are hereby continued in full force
and effect until altered or discontinued by the Mayor and Common Council
as provided in the General Fee Ordinance.
B.
Parking
meter zones and the amounts to be charged for parking in such zones
may be established, altered or discontinued by the Mayor and Common
Council as provided in the General Fee Ordinance.
Parking meters installed in the parking meter
zones established as provided in this article shall be placed upon
the curb immediately adjacent to the individual parking spaces. Each
parking meter shall be placed or set in such a manner as to show or
display by a signal that the parking space adjacent to such meter
is or is not legally in use. Each parking meter installed shall indicate
by a proper legend the legal parking time established by the Mayor
and Common Council. When operated, such meter shall indicate on and
by its dial and pointer the duration of the period of legal parking,
and on the expiration of such period, the meter, by a red indicator,
shall indicate illegal or overtime parking.
A.
The Director of Public Works may have lines or markings
painted or placed upon the curb or upon the street adjacent to each
parking meter, or at both such places, for the purpose of designating
the parking space for which the meter is to be used, and each vehicle
parked adjacent or next to any parking meter shall park within the
lines or markings so established. It shall be unlawful to park any
vehicle across any such line or marking or to park in such position
that the vehicle shall not be entirely within the area so designated
by such lines or markings. Any vehicle parked in such parking space
shall be parked so that the foremost part of such vehicle shall be
nearest to the parking meter.
Each parking meter shall be set so as to display
a signal showing legal parking upon the deposit of a coin or coins.
Each meter shall, by its device, clearly set out and continue in operation
from the time of the deposit of one or more coins, as may be desired,
until the expiration of the time paid.
[Amended 8-28-1996 by Ord. No. 613]
Parking meters shall be in operation each day
of the week, except for Saturdays, Sundays and designated holidays,
between the hours established by resolution of the Mayor and Common
Council and displayed on the parking meter or on signs which are situate
within or near a designated parking area. The Mayor and Common Council
may also designate other special dates or time periods in which parking
meters shall not be in operation. Any person desiring to utilize a
parking space for the parking of a vehicle while the parking meter
for such space is in operation may do so by depositing in such meter
the required coin or coins of the United States. No charge shall be
made for parking while the parking meter is not in operation.
When any vehicle shall be parked in any parking
space, the operator shall, upon entering such space, deposit or cause
to be deposited in the parking meter for such parking space a coin
or coins of the United States, depending on the length of time such
operator intends to utilize such parking space for parking and in
accordance with the schedule established by the Mayor and Common Council
and displayed on the parking meter. Upon the making of such deposit,
the operator shall be entitled to utilize the parking space for the
parking of such vehicle for the length of time specified in such schedule
for the amount so deposited and as indicated by the signal upon the
parking meter.
If any vehicle shall remain parked in any parking
space beyond the period of time paid for by the operator, the parking
meter shall indicate such illegal parking by a visible red indicator,
and in that event, such vehicle shall be considered as parked overtime
and beyond the limit of legal parking time in violation of the provisions
of this article.
[Amended 3-24-2003 by 698]
A.
It shall be unlawful for any owner or operator to
cause, allow, permit or suffer a vehicle to be parked overtime, whether
occupied or not, in any parking space provided for by this article
during the hours stated on the meter when the adjacent meter indicates
by mechanical device that the time paid for by the deposit of a coin
or coins has expired. No vehicle shall be parked in violation of this
section.
B.
Any violation of Subsection A hereof is declared to be a municipal infraction. The penalty for violation for a first offense shall be a warning. The penalty for a second offense shall be a fine of $15. The penalty for a third offense shall be a fine of $25. The penalty for a fourth offense or more shall be a fine of $50.[1]
[1]
This ordinance also provided that for purposes
of calculating the number of violations set forth in § l55-38B,
the City shall reset to zero the number of violations of an owner
or operator on January 1 of each calendar-year period.
[Added 3-24-2003 by Ord. No. 698]
A.
Except during times other than stated on the parking
meter as operating hours, it shall be unlawfully for any owner or
operator to causes allow, permit or suffer any vehicle to be parked,
whether occupied or not, in any parking space provided for by this
article, beyond the period of time established by the duration of
the parking meter, or by any notice on the parking meter limiting
the period of time a vehicle may remain parked in such a space. The
insertion of additional coins after such time has elapsed does not
extend the allowable time a vehicle may remain parked in the same
space
B.
Any violation of this section is declared to be a
municipal infraction. The penalty for violation shall be $25 for each
offense.
A.
It shall be unlawful for any person to deface, injure,
tamper with, open or willfully break, destroy or impair the usefulness
of any parking meter installed under the provisions of this article.
A.
It shall be unlawful for any person to deposit or
cause to be deposited in any parking meter any slug, device, substance
or any other substitute for a coin of the United States of America.
Nothing contained in this article shall be construed
to prohibit commercial vehicles from using on-street public parking
spaces, as provided in this article, when such commercial vehicles
are actually engaged in the loading or unloading of merchandise, provided
that such commercial vehicles shall not use said parking spaces for
any longer period of time than is actually necessary for such loading
or unloading, not to exceed 15 minutes. In such cases, the operators
of said vehicles shall not be required to make any deposit of coins
in such parking meters so long as such loading and unloading is actively
and obviously in progress. In all other cases, such vehicles are subject
to all of the provisions and regulations of this chapter.
Nothing contained in this article shall be construed
to prohibit commercial or public utility vehicles from using or occupying
on-street public parking spaces, as provided in this article, when
such vehicles are actually engaged in authorized construction, maintenance
or service activities to the highway, highway equipment or public
utilities and such work is totally within the right-of-way of said
highway, and provided that such spaces are not otherwise lawfully
occupied. In such cases, the operators of said vehicles shall not
be required to make any deposit of coins in such parking meters so
long as such construction, maintenance and service work is actively
and obviously in progress. In all other cases, such vehicles are subject
to all of the provisions and regulations of this chapter.
