The following traffic district is designated as a parking meter zone:
Sacramento Metropolitan Airport, Sacramento County No. 1.
(Ord. 703 § 110, 1960; Ord. 962 § 4, 1967)
The director is authorized to install, or cause to be installed, parking meters in all parking meter zones established by this title or hereafter created by the Board of Supervisors of Sacramento County in such numbers and in such places as, in his judgment, may be necessary for the regulation, control and inspection for the parking of vehicles therein.
(Ord. 703 § 111, 1960; Ord. 962 § 4, 1967)
a. 
The director is authorized to install and maintain parking space markings to indicate parking space adjacent to curbs where authorized parking is permitted and in parking lots especially designated therefor.
b. 
When such parking space markings are placed in the highway, subject to other and more restrictive limitations, no vehicle shall be stopped or left standing other than within a single space unless the size or shape of such vehicle makes compliance impossible.
(Ord. 703 § 112, 1960; Ord. 962 § 4, 1967; SCC 171 § 1, 1974)
The director is authorized to install and maintain between the sidewalk and the street immediately adjacent to each street parking space and at a convenient location with respect to each parking lot parking space, a parking meter for the purpose of regulating the parking within each parking space so marked.
(Ord. 703 § 113, 1960; Ord. 962 § 4, 1967; SCC 171 § 2, 1974)
The maximum parking time limits within designated portions of the parking meter zones shall be as provided by this title and shown by proper signs erected and maintained.
(Ord. 703 § 114, 1960; Ord. 962 § 4, 1967)
Each parking meter shall be so set as to display a signal showing legal parking upon the deposit of the appropriate coin or coins, lawful money of the United States, for the period of time prescribed by this chapter.
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 has expired and in such cases the right of such vehicle to occupy such space shall cease.
(Ord. 703 § 115, 1960; Ord. 962 § 4, 1967)
Parking or standing a vehicle in a designated street parking space, or in a designated parking lot space, in a parking meter zone is lawful for eighty minutes upon the deposit of twenty-five cents for each twenty minutes of time.
(Ord. 703 § 116, 1960; Ord. 962 § 4, 1967; Ord. 971 § 1, 1968; SCC 171 § 3, 1974; SCC 435 § 1, 1980)
When any vehicle is parked in any space alongside of or near to the place where a parking meter is located, the operator of the vehicle shall immediately, after entering the parking meter space, deposit or cause to be deposited in such meter such proper coin of the United States as is required by Section 10.28.070 for such parking meter and as is designated by proper directions on the meter, and when required by the directions on the meter, the operator of such vehicle, after the deposit of the proper coin, shall also set in operation the timing mechanism on such meter in accordance with directions properly appearing thereon. Failure to deposit the proper coin and to set the timing mechanism in operation when so required constitutes a violation of this chapter.
Upon the deposit of the coin and the setting of the time mechanism in operation when so required, the parking space may be lawfully occupied by such vehicle during the period of time which has been prescribed for the part of the street in which the parking space is located; provided, that any persons placing a vehicle in a parking meter space adjacent to a meter which indicates that unused time has been left in the meter by the previous occupant of the space shall not be required to deposit a coin so long as his occupancy of the space does not exceed the indicated unused parking time.
(Ord. 703 § 118, 1960; Ord. 962 § 4, 1967)
No person shall cause, allow, permit or suffer any motor vehicle registered in the name of or operated by such person to be parked overtime or beyond the period of legal parking time established for any parking meter zone; nor, shall any person cause, allow, permit or suffer any motor vehicle registered in the name of or operated by such person to remain in any space opposite on which there is a parking meter when such parking meter displays a signal indicating illegal use of the space.
The display of a signal showing illegal parking on 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 parking period of time.
(Ord. 703 § 119, 1960; Ord. 962 § 4, 1967)
No person shall cause, allow, permit or suffer to be deposited in a parking meter coins for the purpose of extending the parking time of such vehicle beyond the maximum time allowed for parking as designated by the posted signs.
(Ord. 703 § 120, 1960; Ord. 962 § 4, 1967)
Every person violating the provisions of Section 10.28.100 and Section 10.28.110 is guilty of a separate and further violation for each additional period of time that the vehicle is so parked, equal to the maximum legal parking time for the particular meter. Each complete time period, plus any remaining fraction of said time period, shall constitute a separate violation.
(SCC 0768 § 1, 1989)
No person shall deface, injure, tamper with, open or wilfully break, destroy or impair the usefulness of any parking meter installed under the provisions of this chapter.
(Ord. 703 § 121, 1960; Ord. 962 § 4, 1967)
A peace officer, or any County employee acting under the direction and control of the Sheriff, may issue a citation for overtime parking at a meter. The person issuing the citation shall take the number of any meter at which the vehicle is overparked, as provided in this chapter, the state vehicle license and registration expiration date of the vehicle, the time and date of such overparking, the color, and, if possible, the make of the vehicle. The person shall then issue, in writing, a citation for overtime parking in the same form and subject to the same procedure provided by the laws of the State applicable to traffic violations within the County.
(Ord. 703 § 122, 1960; Ord. 962 § 4, 1967; SCC 0836 § 1, 1991)
The money required to be deposited in parking meters as provided in this chapter is hereby levied and assessed as fees to provide for the proper regulation and control of traffic and to cover the cost of the supervision, inspection, installation, maintenance, control and use of the parking meter zones.
(Ord. 703 § 123, 1960; Ord. 962 § 4, 1967)
Violation of any of the provisions of this chapter shall be an infraction punishable by fine as provided for by the laws of the State.
(Ord. 703 § 124, 1960; Ord. 962 § 4, 1967; SCC 0836 § 2, 1991)