The following traffic districts are hereby designated as parking
meter zones:
(Ord. 17-1 § 4)
The city manager, or designee, may install, or cause to be installed,
parking meters, pay-by-space machines and/or pay-and-display machines
in all parking meter zones established by this code or hereafter created
by the city council in such numbers and in such places as, in the
city manager's or designee's judgment, may be necessary for the regulation,
control, and inspection of the parking of vehicles therein.
(Ord. 17-1 § 4)
A.
Each
parking meter shall be so set as to display a signal showing lawful
parking upon the deposit of the appropriate United States legal tender
or credit card.
B.
Each
parking meter shall be so arranged that upon the expiration of the
lawful time limit it will indicate by a proper visible signal that
the lawful parking period for the adjacent parking meter space has
expired and in such cases the right of such a vehicle to occupy the
space shall cease.
C.
Each
pay-by-space or pay-and-display machine shall conspicuously display
the applicable parking rates and instructions on use of the machine.
(Ord. 17-1 § 4)
The maximum parking time limits within designated portions of
the parking meter zone shall be as provided by this title or other
ordinances, and shown by proper signs erected and maintained.
(Ord. 17-1 § 4)
The rates for parking in a parking meter zone shall be established
by ordinance. Parking or standing a vehicle in a parking meter space
is lawful for the period of time corresponding to the monetary amount
deposited or paid for that space.
(Ord. 17-1 § 4)
Parking meters and pay-by-space/pay-and-display machines shall
be operated in the parking meter zones every day between the hours
of eight a.m. and ten p.m. The city manager, or designee, may, after
conducting parking surveys, determine that other hours of operation
will facilitate the control of parking and may place signs indicating
hours of operation other than between eight a.m. and ten p.m.
(Ord. 17-1 § 4)
A.
When any vehicle is parked in any parking meter space, the operator of the vehicle shall, immediately after entering the parking meter space, deposit or cause to be deposited either in the meter or machine controlling the space or through an authorized technology platform, the proper legal tender as is required by Section 10.24.060 for the parking meter space. The operator of the vehicle, after the proper deposit, shall also set in operation the timing mechanism on the meter or machine, if any, in accordance with directions properly appearing thereon. Failure to make a proper deposit and to set the timing mechanism in operation and, if applicable, failure to place the parking receipt on the vehicle dashboard as prescribed, shall constitute a violation of this title.
B.
Upon
the proper deposit of legal tender and the setting of the timing mechanism
in operation and, if applicable, the placement of the parking receipt
on the vehicle dashboard, the parking meter space may be lawfully
occupied by the vehicle during the period of time which has been prescribed
for the part of the street in which the parking meter space is located.
The occupant of the space shall not be required to deposit additional
payment so long as the occupancy of the space does not exceed the
indicated unused parking time. When an oversized vehicle occupies
more than one space, a proper deposit shall be made for each of the
spaces.
(Ord. 17-1 § 4)
A.
Where
any section of this chapter, or any sign posted pursuant to the provisions
of this title, limits parking in any space in a given parking meter
zone to a stated period of time during designated daily hours of operation,
a vehicle shall be considered in violation of that restriction if
it parks in any space within the same parking meter zone during the
daily hours of operation for longer than the stated time period.
B.
The
display of a signal showing illegal parking during the hours of operation
for any parking meter while a motor vehicle is parked in a space adjoining
the parking meter shall be prima facie evidence that the motor vehicle
has been parked overtime and beyond the lawful parking period.
C.
A pay-by-space
or pay-and-display parking machine indicating that the lawful parking
time has expired, during the hours of operation for any pay-by-space
or pay-and-display machine, while a motor vehicle is parked in a space
controlled by that pay-by-space or pay-and-display machine, shall
be prima facie evidence that the motor vehicle has been parked overtime
and beyond the lawful parking period.
(Ord. 17-1 § 4)
Parking or standing a vehicle in a parking meter space shall
be lawful up to the maximum time indicated on the parking meter, on
the pay-by-space or pay-and-display machine, or on posted signs. No
person shall deposit in a parking meter or pay-by-space/pay-and-display
machine or through any authorized technology platform any legal tender
for the purpose of extending the parking time of a vehicle beyond
the designated maximum time allowed for parking.
(Ord. 17-1 § 4)
No person shall deface, injure, tamper with, open or willfully
break, destroy or impair the usefulness of any parking meter or any
pay-by-space or pay-and-display machine installed under the provisions
of this title.
(Ord. 17-1 § 4)
Each police officer or parking enforcement officer shall take
the number of any parking meter space at which any vehicle is parked
in violation of this chapter, the state license number of the vehicle,
and the time and date of the violation. The police officer or parking
enforcement officer shall then issue, in writing, a citation for illegal
parking in the form and subject to the procedure provided for by law
and the city code applicable to parking violations within the city.
(Ord. 17-1 § 4)
The money required to be deposited in parking meters and pay-by-space/pay-and-display
machines or through any authorized technology platform as provided
in this chapter is hereby levied and assessed as fees to provide for
the proper regulation and control of traffic upon the public streets,
to provide for public vehicular off-street parking facilities, and
to cover the cost of the supervision, inspection, installation, maintenance,
control, and use of the parking spaces and regulating parking of vehicles
in the parking meter zones.
(Ord. 17-1 § 4)
