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. 
The Chief of Police is authorized, with the approval of the Mayor, to install, in such parking meter zones or areas as may be established under § 325-87, parking meters, including curb or street or area marking lines, and to have charge of the regulation and operation thereof, to maintain such meters in good workable condition, and to collect or cause to be collected moneys deposited in the meters in the presence of the Treasurer/Collector or a person designated by him and turn such moneys over to the Treasurer/Collector.
B. 
The meters shall be placed upon the curb next to the individual parking spaces and they shall be so constructed as to display a signal, marking or symbol showing legal parking upon deposit therein of proper coins, indicated by instructions on the meters.
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.
A. 
Whenever any vehicle is parked next to a parking meter, the operator of the vehicle shall park within the area designated by the curb or street or any marking lines as indicated for parallel parking and upon entering the parking space shall immediately deposit in the meter the coins in United States legal tender stipulated on the face of the meter. Where parking is indicated to be at right angles to the curbing, the vehicle shall be parked facing the curb.
B. 
It is unlawful for any person to fail or neglect to deposit such coin or coins or to fail to park within the limits designated. Such parking space may then be used by such vehicle during the time delimited therefor according to the sum thus deposited, and such vehicle shall be unlawfully parked if it remains in such space beyond the period of time for which the operator shall have deposited such coin or coins in the meter. It is unlawful for any person to cause any vehicle to be unlawfully parked as provided in this section.
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.