It shall be unlawful to park any vehicle or to permit a vehicle to remain parked in any parking meter zone for a period longer than designated on such meter, between the hours designated thereon, except on Sundays and holidays, or to park a vehicle in any zone without paying the fee hereinafter designated; or to permit a vehicle to remain parked longer in any such zone than for the period for which the fee was paid, except on Sundays and holidays. The term "holiday" shall include the following days only: the first of January; the 30th of May; the fourth day of July; the first Monday in September; the 25th of December (Christmas) and the day designated and set aside by the President of the United States as a day of Thanksgiving.
Parking meters shall be installed in the parking meter zones as established and provided for by ordinance and shall be placed upon the curb or curbline immediately adjacent to the individual parking places hereinafter described. Each parking meter shall be placed or set in such a manner as to show or display by a signal whether or not the parking space adjacent to such meter is legally in use.
Suitable markings shall be painted or placed upon the curb, curbline or street adjacent to each parking meter for the purpose of designating the parking space and the angle at which vehicles are parked to the curb or curbline. Each vehicle parking within any parking meter zone shall park within the line or marking so established. It shall be unlawful to park any vehicle across any such line or marking or to park said vehicle in such a position that the same shall not be entirely within the area designated by such line or markings.
Any person desiring to park any vehicle within such parking meter space shall deposit the proper coins for the time desired as prescribed by ordinance and as posted on said meter.
A. 
It shall be unlawful for any person not authorized by the City Council to deface, injure, tamper with, open or willfully break, destroy or impair the usefulness of any parking meter installed under the provisions of this article.
B. 
It shall be unlawful to deposit any slug, device or metallic or other substitute for a coin in any parking meter.
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Editor's Note: Former § 496-121, Limited time parking violations, as amended, was repealed 2-2-2010 by Ord. No. 6531.