Any and all parking lots and facilities now
or hereafter owned, operated, constructed or maintained by the Authority
are and shall be public parking lots, and the same are hereby constituted
and are to be known as "parking meter zones."
[Amended 6-13-1979 by Ord. No. 1979-27]
In each of said public parking lots, the Authority
shall install parking meters. Said parking meters shall be placed
immediately adjacent to or in front of the parking places hereinafter
described. Each parking meter shall be placed or set in such a manner
as to show or display by signal that the parking place adjacent to
such meter is or is not legally in use. Each parking meter installed
shall indicate by a proper legend the legal parking time established
by ordinance and, when operated, shall indicate thereon and by its
dial that it is in legal use and, upon the expiration of the time
for which a coin or coins were inserted therein, shall indicate illegal
or overparking.
The Authority shall have lines or markings painted
or placed upon the pavement adjacent to each parking meter for the
purpose of designating the parking area for which said meter is to
be used, and each vehicle parked adjacent thereto or in front thereof
or next to any parking meter shall park within the lines or markings
so established. It shall be unlawful and a violation of this article
to park any vehicle across any such line or marking or to park said
vehicle in such position that the same shall not be entirely within
the area so designated by such lines or markings.
When any vehicle shall be parked in any such space adjacent to, next to or in front of which a parking meter is located in accordance with the provisions of this article, the operator of said vehicle shall, upon entering the parking space, immediately deposit or cause to be deposited coin(s) of the United States, or such token(s) as may be approved by resolution of the Authority, in such parking meter, and failure to deposit such coin or coins shall constitute a breach of this article and shall subject such person to the penalty prescribed in §
193-70 hereof, except as hereinafter provided. Such parking space may be lawfully occupied by such vehicle for a period of time equal to the amount of money or tokens deposited at the rate determined by the Parking Authority. If said vehicle shall remain parked in any such parking space beyond the parking time paid or as indicated on said parking meter and the parking meter indicates such illegal parking, then and in that event such vehicle shall be considered as parked overtime and beyond the period of legal parking time as above set forth.
It shall be unlawful and a violation of the
provisions of this article for any person to cause, allow, permit
or suffer any vehicles registered in the name of or operated by such
person to be parked overtime or beyond the period of legal parking
time herein established for any public parking lot as herein described,
as hereinafter provided.
Except as hereinafter provided, it shall be
unlawful and a violation of the provisions of this article for any
person to permit a vehicle to remain in any parking meter space while
said meter is displaying a signal indicating that the vehicle occupying
such parking space has already been parked beyond the period of time
prescribed for such parking space.
It shall be unlawful and a violation of the
provisions of this article to deposit or cause to be deposited in
any parking meter any slug, device, counterfeit coin or metallic substitute
for coins of the United States, except as approved by resolution of
the Authority.
Upon payment to the Authority of the proper
fee, a person may be permitted to park a designated vehicle in a designated
public parking lot space for a period of one month. The Authority
shall issue to such person a sticker or other suitable sign to be
placed on the vehicle designated thereon showing the month during
which such vehicle may be parked in a designated public parking lot
space. A vehicle bearing such monthly parking sticker or sign may,
during the calendar month shown thereon, be parked in a designated
parking space at any time. The Authority shall have the right, from
time to time, to limit the number of monthly parkers in any or all
of the parking lots or facilities owned, operated and maintained by
it. In the event that there are more applications for monthly parking
spaces than spaces available, they may be assigned in the order that
the applications are received.