[Amended 5-2-2018 by Ord. No. 2018-05]
The Board of Public Works shall be responsible for the installation of parking meters or pay stations in the City and is hereby directed and authorized to provide for the designation of such parking spaces in the zones designated and described in Schedule XXVII of the traffic regulations of the Board of Public Works.
Parking is hereby prohibited at each alternate metered parking space from 4:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. as designated and marked by the Transportation Engineer in the parking meter zones designated and described in Schedule XXVIII of the traffic regulations of the Board of Public Works.
No person shall park a vehicle in any meter or pay-stationed zone for a period of time longer than 15 minutes between 2:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m. except for streets or parts thereof described in Schedule XXIX of the traffic regulations of the Board of Public Works.
In said parking-meter or pay-station zones, the Department of Public Works shall cause parking meters or pay stations to be installed upon the curb, sidewalk or area immediately adjacent to the parking spaces provided in this article. No parking meters shall be installed in areas where parking is prohibited. The Department of Public Works shall be responsible for the regulation, control, operation, maintenance and use of such parking meters and pay stations.
A. 
Except in a period of emergency determined by an officer of the Fire or Police Department, or in compliance with the directions of a police officer or traffic control sign or signal, when any vehicle shall be parked in any parking space alongside or next to which a parking meter is located, the operator of such vehicle shall, upon entering the said parking meter space, immediately deposit or cause to be deposited in said meter such proper coin of the United States of America as is required 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, and failure to deposit such proper coin and to set the timing mechanism in operation when so required shall constitute a violation of this article. Upon the deposit of such coin (and the setting of the timing 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 said parking space is located, provided that any person 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 said space does not exceed the indicated unused parking time. If said vehicle shall remain parked in any such parking space beyond the parking time limit set for such parking space, and if the meter shall indicate such illegal parking, then and in that event such vehicle shall be considered as parking overtime and beyond the period of legal parking time, and such parking shall be deemed a violation of this article.
B. 
Except in a period of emergency determined by an officer of the Fire or Police Department, or in compliance with the directions of a police officer or traffic control sign or signal, when any vehicle shall be parked in any parking space regulated by a pay station, the operator of such vehicle shall, upon entering the said parking space, immediately deposit or cause to be deposited in a pay station such proper coin or bill of the United States of America or make a credit card payment, with such credit card payment made directly to the parking pay station or by other electronic means, including by smartphone app, designated at or in the vicinity of the pay station, as is required for such parking pay station and as is designated by proper directions on the pay station. Failure to make proper payment in accordance with the instructions on the pay station shall constitute a violation of this article. If said vehicle shall remain parked in any such parking space beyond the parking time limit set for such vehicle parking space, and if the pay station information system shall indicate such illegal parking, such vehicle shall be considered as parking overtime and beyond the period of legal parking time, and such parking shall be a violation of this article.
When a parking meter space is parallel with the adjacent curb or sidewalk, no person shall park or permit the parking of any vehicle in such parking space in any other position than with the foremost part of such vehicle nearest to the parking meter; when a parking meter space is diagonal to the curb or sidewalk, no person shall park or permit the parking of any vehicle in such parking space in any other position than with the foremost part of such vehicle nearest to the parking meter; when a parking meter shall have been installed at the head of and immediately adjacent to any parking space on a municipal off-street parking lot, no person shall park or permit the parking of any vehicle in such parking space in any other position than with the foremost part of such vehicle nearest to the parking meter; provided, however, that in municipal off-street parking lots, signs shall be erected indicating that head-on parking only is permitted. In any event, a vehicle shall be parked within the lines marked on the pavement measuring such parking space, when so provided. In pay-station zones, no person shall park or permit the parking of any vehicle in such pay-station zone beyond the limits of the pay-station zone.
On-street parking fees shall be determined annually by the Board of Public Works. Such fees shall be documented on parking meters and pay stations.
It shall be unlawful and a violation of the provisions of this article for any person to:
A. 
Cause, allow, permit or suffer any 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 or pay-station zone as herein described, or to deposit in any parking meter any coin for the purpose of parking beyond the maximum legal parking time for the particular parking meter zone.
B. 
Permit any vehicle to remain or be placed in any parking space adjacent to any parking meter while said meter is displaying a signal indicating that the vehicle occupying such parking space has already been parked beyond the period prescribed for such parking space.
C. 
Park any vehicle across any line or marking of a parking meter space or in such position that the vehicle shall not be entirely within the area designated by such lines or markings.
D. 
Deface, injure, tamper with, open or willfully break, destroy or impair the usefulness of any parking meter or pay station installed under the provisions of this article.
E. 
Deposit or cause to be deposited in any parking meter or pay station any slug, device or metal substance or other substitute for lawful coins.
F. 
Park or permit the parking of any vehicle in any parking meter space where the meter does not register lawful parking.
A. 
It shall be the duty of the community service officers, police officers or others authorized by the Superintendent of Public Works, acting in accordance with instructions issued by the Director of Parking, to report:
(1) 
The number of each parking meter or proximate pay station which indicates that the vehicle occupying the parking space adjacent to such parking meter, or within such pay station zone, is or has been parked in violation of any of the provisions of this article.
(2) 
The state license number of such vehicle.
(3) 
That such vehicle is parked in violation of any of the provisions of this article.
(4) 
Any other facts, a knowledge of which is necessary to a thorough understanding of the circumstances attending such violation.
B. 
Each such community service officer, police officer or other person authorized by the Superintendent of Public Works shall also attach to such vehicle a notice to the owner thereof that such vehicle has been parked in violation of a provision of this article, and instructing such owner to report to the court with regard to such violation.
The payments required to be deposited in parking meters or pay stations as provided herein are hereby levied and assessed as fees to provide for the proper regulation and control of traffic upon the public streets and also the cost of supervising and regulating the parking of vehicles in the parking meter and pay station zones created thereby, and to cover the cost of the purchase, supervision, protection, inspection, installation, operation, maintenance, control and use of the parking meters or pay stations described herein.
It shall be the duty of the Department of Public Works to designate some proper person or persons to make regular collections of the moneys deposited in said meters or pay stations, and it shall be the duty of such person or persons so designated to remove from the parking meters or pay stations the locked containers therein containing the coins, bills, or receipts so deposited in said meters and pay stations and to deliver such locked containers to the City Chamberlain or other destination determined by the City Controller, who shall be responsible for and shall keep a record of the collection of fees from parking meters or pay stations and shall credit such fees to the parking fund.