(a) 
Parking meter zones are those streets or portions of streets established by ordinance of the city council as zones within which the parking of vehicles shall be controlled, regulated and inspected with the aid of parking meters.
(b) 
The city transportation services manager shall cause parking meters to be installed and maintained in all parking meter zones, once said zones have been created by the city council.
(Code 1960, § 3414.0; Ord. No. 66-35, 8-15-66; Ord. No. 2024-09, 7/16/2024)
(a) 
Parking meters shall be installed upon the curb or sidewalk area immediately adjacent to each parking space. Each meter shall be placed in such a manner as to show or display by a sign or signal that the parking space thereto is or is not legally in use.
(b) 
Each parking meter shall be set to display, after the operational procedure has been completed, a sign or signal indicating legal parking for that period of time conforming to the limit of parking time for the zone in which said parking meter is installed, and shall continue to operate from the time of the completion of the operational procedure until the expiration of the time fixed as the parking limit or a portion thereof for the part of the street upon 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 a mechanical operation and by proper signal that the lawful parking period has expired.
(Code 1960, § 3414.1; Ord. No. 66-35, 8-15-66; Ord. No. 2024-09, 7/16/2024)
The provisions of this chapter relating to the operation of parking meters shall be effective between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. of every day except Sundays and holidays.
(Code 1960, § 3414.2; Ord. No. 66-35, 8-15-66; Ord. No. 2024-09, 7/16/2024)
Immediately after occupancy of a parking meter space, the operator of a vehicle shall provide payment in the parking meter or online application in accordance with the instructions posted on the face of the parking meter or applicable signage.
(Code 1960, § 3414.3; Ord. No. 66-35, 8-15-66; Ord. No. 2024-09, 7/16/2024)
No operator of any vehicle shall permit said vehicle to remain parked in any parking space during any time that the meter is showing a signal indicating that such space is illegally in use other than such time immediately after the original occupancy as is necessary to operate the meter to show legal parking.
(Code 1960, § 3414.4; Ord. No. 66-35, 8-15-66; Ord. No. 2024-09, 7/16/2024)
No person shall follow the operational procedure or any part of the operational procedure for the purpose of increasing or extending the parking time of any vehicle beyond the legal parking time which has been established for the parking space adjacent to which said parking meter is placed.
(Code 1960, § 3414.5; Ord. No. 66-35, 8-15-66; Ord. No. 2024-09, 7/16/2024)
No person shall deposit or cause to be deposited in any parking meter any defaced or bent coin, or any slug, device or metallic substitute for a coin of the United States, nor shall any person deface, injure, tamper with, open or willfully break, destroy or impair the usefulness of any parking meter.
(Code 1960, § 3414.6; Ord. No. 66-35, 8-15-66; Ord. No. 2024-09, 7/16/2024)
(Code 1960, § 3414.7; Ord. No. 66-35, 8-15-66; repealed by Ord. No. 2024-09, 7/16/2024)
The parking or standing of any motor vehicle in a parking space, at which space the parking meter displays the sign or signal indicating illegal parking, shall constitute prima facie evidence that the vehicle has been parked or allowed to stand in such space for a period longer than permitted by this chapter.
(Code 1960, § 3414.9; Ord. No. 66-35, 8-15-66; Ord. No. 2024-09, 7/16/2024)
All monies collected from parking meters in the city shall be placed in a special fund, hereby established and designated as the "Parking Fund," which fund shall be devoted exclusively to the following purposes:
(a) 
For the purchasing, leasing, installing, repairing, maintaining, operating, removing, regulating and policing of parking meters in the city and for the payment of any and all expenses relating or incidental thereto.
(b) 
For the purchasing, leasing, acquiring, improving, operating and maintaining of off-street parking facilities in the city.
(c) 
For the proper regulation, control and inspection of parking and traffic upon the public streets.
(Code 1960, § 3414.10; Ord. No. 66-35, 8-15-66; Ord. No. 2024-09, 7/16/2024)
No section of this chapter shall be construed as permitting any parking in violation of any other provision of this title.
(Code 1960, § 3414.11; Ord. No. 66-35, 8-15-66; Ord. No. 2024-09, 7/16/2024)