It is declared to be the purpose of this article that the fees
to be charged and collected by the operation of parking meters are
levied as a police regulation to cover the costs of providing parking
space, parking meters and their installation and maintenance, the
cost of regulation and inspection, the cost of operation and control
of traffic moving in and out of and parking in such parking spaces
and parking meter areas and for the cost of traffic administration
expenses resulting from the establishment of such parking meter areas
and that it is not the purpose of the installation of such parking
meters to recover any further moneys for the City or to engage in
the operation of such parking spaces and meters for profit.
The City Council may establish, immediately and from time to
time hereafter, as traffic and parking conditions require, zones or
areas to be known as "parking meter zones," or areas upon such streets
and public parking areas in the City as are selected for the location
of such zones or areas, and in such parking meter zones or areas the
City Council may cause parking meters to be installed and may cause
parking meter spaces to be designated as provided in this article
and shall fix the time limitations for legal parking in such zones
or areas.
A list of parking meter zones, their time limitations and hours
of operation is on file in the office of the City Clerk.
The provisions of §
325-73 pertaining to the parking time limit on municipal off-street parking areas shall be inapplicable on Sundays, holidays and daily.
It is unlawful to park any vehicle across any such lines or
marks as may be established hereunder or to park such vehicle in such
way that the same shall not be within the area so designated by such
lines or markings, unless such vehicle be too large to be confined
in one such place, in which latter instance only the meter nearest
the hood or front end of such vehicle need be operated.
It is unlawful for any person to deposit or cause to be deposited in a parking meter additional coins for the purpose of extending the parking time beyond the maximum time as determined under §§
325-73 and
325-89.
The maximum fee for parking meter areas shall be as follows:
A. Ten cents per hour in one-hour and two-hour zones within the City except as provided in Subsections
B and
C of this section.
B. Ten cents per 12 minutes for parking meters located on the easterly
side of Hancock Street from Huntly Road to a point 116 feet in a northerly
direction.
C. Ten cents per hour in all off-street parking areas, except those
areas designated as ten-hour zones, where the maximum charge shall
be $0.25 for two hours and 30 minutes.
The placing of coins in such meters as may be established hereunder
shall not be required of the owner or operator of any vehicle while
actually engaged in the loading or unloading of persons or merchandise
therefrom, provided that the parking for loading or unloading persons
is restricted to such length of time as is absolutely necessary therefor,
and provided further that such loading and unloading of merchandise
is restricted to such length of time as is absolutely necessary therefor
and to places of business where it is not possible to so load, unload,
receive or deliver merchandise at a rear entrance.
Nothing contained in this article shall be construed to prohibit
the City Council from making adequate and necessary provisions for
bus stops, taxicab stands and service zones, as authorized by other
articles of this chapter, on any street or portion of any street which
has been or may hereafter be designated herein as a parking meter
zone.
It is unlawful for any person not authorized so to do to tamper
with, open, break, injure or destroy any parking meter.
[Added by Ord. No. 95-043]
Upon the recommendation of the Traffic Engineer and Councillor-at-large
Timothy P. Cahill all parking meters in the Parkingway are removed.