As used in this division, the following words and phrases shall
have the meanings ascribed to them in this section.
shall mean the standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or
not, otherwise than temporarily for the purpose of and while actually
engaged in loading or unloading merchandise or passengers.
shall mean any device in, upon or by which any person or
property may be transported upon any street or highway, except those
operated upon rails or tracks.
(Code 1957, § 6311.3)
The council, on recommendation of the city manager, shall, by
ordinance, immediately and hereafter from time to time as traffic
conditions require, establish zones to be known as "Parking Meter
Areas" upon such streets or portions of streets of the city as are
selected for the location of said parking meter areas. The council,
on recommendation of the city manager, may change or eliminate any
of said zones.
(Code 1957, § 6312)
Upon the establishment of parking meter zones, the city manager
shall cause parking meters to be installed and shall cause parking
meter spaces to be designated as hereinafter provided.
(Code 1957, § 6312)
(a)
Parking
meters installed in parking meter areas established as provided in
section 28-172 shall be placed upon the curb immediately adjacent
to the individual parking places described.
(b)
Each
parking meter shall be placed or set in such 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 shall be set to display,
upon the deposit of one-cent coins, five-cent coins or ten-cent coins
of the United States therein, a sign indicating legal parking for
that period of time conforming to the limit of parking time which
has been or may be established for that area or zone of the street
upon which said parking meter is installed and shall continue to operate
from the time of the deposit of such coins therein until the expiration
of the time fixed as the parking limit for the part of the street
on which said meter is placed. Each said meter shall also be so arranged
that, upon the expiration of said legal parking time, it will indicate
by mechanical operation and by proper signal that the lawful parking
period has expired.
(Code 1957, § 6313)
No person shall deposit or cause to be deposited in any parking
meter any slug, device or metallic substitute for any coin of the
United States.
(Code 1957, § 6315)
No person shall deface, injure, tamper with, open or wilfully
break, destroy or impair the usefulness of any parking meter.
(Code 1957, § 6315)
It shall be unlawful and a violation of this division to park
any vehicle across any line or marking designating a parking meter
space or to park said vehicle in such position that the same shall
not be entirely within the area so designated by the lines or markings
painted or placed upon the street.
(Code 1957, § 6314)
The designated parking space may be used by any vehicle only
during the legal parking limit provided by this division. If the vehicle
remains in the designated space, either beyond the legal parking limit
or after the parking meter displays the mechanical signal indicating
the expiration of the parking period, such vehicle shall be unlawfully
parked under the provisions of this division. It shall be unlawful
for any person driving, or in control of or responsible for, or in
charge of any vehicle to be unlawfully parked as provided in this
division. [In accordance with Section 41102 of the California Vehicle
Code,] the registered owner of any vehicle so unlawfully parked, as
determined from the registration of said vehicle in the Division of
Registration of the Department of Motor Vehicles of the State of California,
shall be deemed to be prima facie liable and responsible for the illegal
parking of such vehicle.
(Code 1957, § 6314.1; Ord. No. 75-26, § 1, 6-11-75)
It shall be the duty of each police officer or other designated
agent appointed by the chief of police to take the number of any meter
at which any vehicle is overparked, as provided in this division;
the state vehicle license of such vehicle; the time and date of such
overparking; and issue, in writing, a citation for illegal parking
in the same form and subject to the same procedure as provided for
by ordinances of the city and the laws of the state applicable to
traffic violations within the city. The person issuing the citation
shall not be required to verify the violation by turning the handle
of the parking meter.
(Code 1957, § 6316)
Editor's note—Ord. No. 80-68, § 1,
enacted Oct. 1, 1980, repealed § 28-180, pertaining to payment
of fines, derived from Code 1957, § 6317, and Ord. No. 75-4,
§ 21, adopted Feb. 13, 1975.
The city manager is hereby authorized, and it shall be his duty,
to designate some person to make regular collections of the money
deposited in parking meters. It shall be the duty of such person so
designated to collect and deliver to the director of finance all money
deposited in the parking meters; the director shall keep an accurate
account of all the parking meter money so delivered to him, and shall
turn such funds over to the city treasurer.
(Code 1957, § 6318)
(a)
Vehicle Parking District No. 1 Parking Meter Fund, having been created pursuant to Ordinance No. 992, all revenues received from parking meters within vehicle parking district No. 1, including those on public streets and those which may be located upon any city-owned lot within the district, including those described in subsection (d) herein, shall be placed exclusively in the fund.
(b)
The fund shall be used for the purpose of acquisition, improvements, maintenance, repair and operation of parking places for the use and benefit of the district, and for no other purpose except for the additional payments set forth in subsection (c) herein.
(c)
Any
portion of said fund may be applied as a credit upon the assessments
levied against real property within vehicle parking district No. 1
as provided in Sections 31828, 31829 and 31830 of the Streets and
Highways Code of California.
(d)
Lot
15, Block 64 of Escondido, according to Map No. 336 thereof, together
with Lot 5, Block 81 of said Map 336, and Lots 4, 5 and 6, Block 14,
of said Map No. 336, shall be held, used and treated in all respects
as parking places acquired with the proceeds of collections of paid
assessments and bonds issued under the provisions of Part 1, Division
18 of the Streets and Highways Code of the State of California (Vehicle
Parking District Act of 1943). No consideration shall be paid to the
city for the use of such lots by the district.
(Code 1957, § 6319; Ord. No. 1091, § 1, 4-8-66)
