The Common Council may from time to time designate areas, streets or portions of streets as parking meter zones or may change such areas, streets or portions of streets situate, lying and being within the city as may be required. The Common Council may also from time to time designate any land or area owned, leased or hereafter otherwise acquired by the city as a metered municipal parking field. Such areas, streets, parts of streets or lands which have been designated as parking meter zones and municipal parking fields are enumerated in Schedule XXIV (§ 300-70), attached to and made a part of this chapter.
The Chief of Police, with the aid and assistance of the Superintendent of Public Works, is hereby authorized and directed to install meters in all parking meter zones, established pursuant to § 300-29 by the Common Council, in such numbers and in such places as in his judgment may be necessary for the regulation, control and inspection of the parking of vehicles therein.
Parking meters installed in parking meter zones
shall be installed upon the curb immediately adjacent to the individual
parking spaces herein described, which shall be in all respects identical
to the individual parking spaces, and each parking meter shall be
so constructed and adjusted as to show, when properly operated, a
signal that the space adjacent to which it is installed is or is not
legally in use.
The Chief of Police, with the aid and assistance
of the Superintendent of Public Works, shall have lines or markings
painted upon the curb or street adjacent to each parking meter designating
the parking space in which such meter is to be used. Such parking
lines or markings shall be repainted whenever the necessity therefor
is determined by the Department of Public Safety.
Each vehicle parked adjacent to any parking
meter shall park within said lines or markings, and it shall be unlawful
to park any vehicle across any such line or marking or to park a vehicle
in such a position that it shall not be entirely within the space
designated by such lines or markings.
A.
Parking meters shall be operated in parking meter
zones between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. on Mondays, Tuesdays,
Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays and between the hours of 8:30 a.m.
and 8:30 p.m. on Thursdays. Sundays and legal holidays are excepted
from the provisions of this section.
B.
The Common Council may by resolution prescribe and
designate days and hours when parking meters in municipal parking
fields shall be in operation.
A.
Parking meters, when installed and properly operated,
shall be so adjusted as to permit legal parking for a period of 12
minutes for each one-cent coin deposited in said meter to and including
a period of 120 minutes; 60 minutes for each five-cent coin deposited
in said meter to and including a period of 120 minutes, and cumulative
time at the rate herein established for the deposit of any combination
of one-cent coins with a single five-cent coin to and including a
period of 120 minutes. Payments of money for the above periods shall
be pay for parking in the areas designated as parking meter zones.
B.
The Common Council may by resolution prescribe and
designate parking time limits for parking meters in municipal parking
fields.
In order to provide for the proper regulation
and control of traffic, the Chief of Police, with the aid and assistance
of the Superintendent of Public Works, shall have the authority to
install special parking meters providing for a limited length of time
for parking at any place where the installation of a parking meter
has been authorized by the Common Council. Such meters providing for
a limited length of time of legal parking shall be painted red so
as to be distinct and different from the normal parking meters in
use in the city and shall contain instructions on said meter clearly
indicating that such parking space may be used only for a limited
period of time.
No person shall park in any space in which a
parking meter is installed for a period longer than the maximum parking
time permitted for that particular parking space, and in no event
shall any person park in any space adjacent to which a parking meter
is installed for more than two hours at any time during which the
meter is in operation, and no person shall park at any time in any
space adjacent to which a meter is installed during any time in which
the meter is showing a signal indicating that such space is illegally
in use, other than such time as is necessary to operate the meter
to show legal parking.
It shall be unlawful to deposit or cause to
be deposited in any parking meter any slug, device or metallic substance
for a one-cent or five-cent coin of the United States of America.
It shall be unlawful for any unauthorized person
to open or for any reason to deface, injure, tamper with or willfully
break or destroy any parking meter installed pursuant to this Article.
The specific coins required to be deposited
in the parking meter as provided herein are hereby levied and assessed
to provide for the proper regulation and control of traffic and of
parking upon the public streets and are not assessed or levied primarily
as an income-producing measure.
The City Chamberlain is hereby authorized and
directed to collect or to designate some person or persons to make
regular collections of money deposited in parking meters and to count
said money and to deposit the same and expend the same as required
by law and/or as provided for in any contract heretofore or hereafter
made and entered into between the city and any company or companies,
firm or individual manufacturing and selling parking meters to the
city.
