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.
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.
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.