The following words and phrases, as used in
this article, shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them
in this section:
Any mechanical device or meter not inconsistent with this
article placed or erected for the regulation of parking by authority
of this article. Each parking meter installed shall indicate by proper
legend the legal parking time established by the City Council and,
when operated, shall at all times indicate the balance of legal parking
time and, at the expiration of such period, shall indicate illegal
or overtime parking.
Any space within a parking meter zone, which is adjacent
to a parking meter and which is duly designated for the parking of
a single vehicle by lines painted or otherwise durably marked on the
curb or on the surface of the street or lot adjacent to or adjoining
the parking meters.
Any restricted on-street parking area or off-street parking
lot upon which parking meters are installed and in operation.
In said parking meter zones, the city shall
cause parking meters 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 city shall be responsible for the regulation, control, operation,
maintenance and use of such parking meters. Each device shall be so
set as to display a signal showing legal parking upon the deposit
of the appropriate coin, lawful money of the United States of America,
for the period of time prescribed in this article. Each device shall
be so arranged that upon the expiration of the lawful time limit,
it will indicate by a proper, visible signal that the lawful parking
period has expired, and in such case the right of such vehicle to
occupy such space shall cease, and the operator, owner, possessor
or manager thereof shall be subject to the penalties hereinafter provided.
Except in a period of emergency determined by
an officer of the 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.
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. In any event, a vehicle
shall be parked within the lines marked on the pavement measuring
such parking space.
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 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 installed under
the provisions of this article.
E.
Deposit or cause to be deposited in any parking meter
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 police officers or parking
enforcement personnel acting in accordance with instructions issued
by the Chief of Police, to report:
(1)
The number of each parking meter which indicates that
the vehicle occupying the parking space adjacent to such parking meter
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 police officer 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 Police Department with regard to such violation.
Any vehicle left parked for a period exceeding
72 hours succeeding expiration of the maximum parking time indicated
during the hours of operation specified in the space in which the
vehicle is parked shall be subject to tow, under the direction of
the Police Department, to the place designated by the Chief of Police
for impoundment, subject to redemption by the owner upon payment of
the reasonable cost of towing and a storage charge for each day or
portion thereof during which it remains in said garage or other place.
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any provision of this article shall be punishable as provided in § 221-25 of this chapter.
It shall be the duty of the Mayor to designate
some proper person or persons to make regular collections of the moneys
deposited in said meters, and it shall be the duty of such person
or persons so designated to remove from the parking meters the locked
containers therein containing the coins so deposited in said meters
and to deliver such locked containers to the Treasurer or his designee,
who shall unlock them and count the funds contained in such containers
and deposit such funds in the usual manner provided by law.
