Parking meter zones may be established in any part or portion of an off-street public parking lot or area which is owned, leased or maintained by the City. Said off-street parking meter zones are as described in Schedule XXIII (§ 183-66).
The Assistant City Engineer (traffic) shall be responsible for the installation, operation, maintenance, regulation, control and supervision of parking meters in the City, and, in the performance of his duties, said Assistant City Engineer is hereby authorized and empowered to enter into such contracts as may be necessary for the proper maintenance of such parking meters, subject to confirmation of said contracts by the Common Council and execution by the Mayor.
A. 
Installation.
(1) 
Pavement and/or curb markings shall be applied, where practicable, outlining parking spaces adjacent to each parking meter in the parking meter zones established pursuant to this Article.
(2) 
Parking meters shall be installed immediately adjacent to the parking spaces.
(3) 
No parking spaces shall be applied at, nor meters installed adjacent to, locations where parking, standing or stopping is prohibited pursuant to § 1202 of the Vehicle and Traffic Law or by this chapter or any other local law of the City where parking spaces are in conflict with such prohibitions.
B. 
Operation.
(1) 
Each parking meter shall operate so as to indicate that the appropriate fee has been deposited in such meter.
(2) 
Each parking meter shall display a signal indicating the expiration of the time period associated with the deposit of fees.
A. 
Any vehicle parked alongside of or next to any parking meter shall be parked entirely within the lines or markings designating or outlining the parking space adjacent to such parking meter.
B. 
Any vehicle parked in a parking space adjacent to a parking meter shall be parked so that either the foremost or the rearmost part of such vehicle shall be alongside of and next to the parking meter, depending upon the location of the parking meter.
A. 
Deposit of fee required.
(1) 
No person shall park a vehicle in a parking space of any parking meter zone adjacent to a parking meter during the hours of parking meter operation unless the appropriate fee is immediately deposited in such meter.
(2) 
No person shall park a vehicle in a parking space of any parking meter zone adjacent to a parking meter during the hours of parking meter operation while such meter is displaying a signal indicating the expiration of the time period associated with the deposit of fees.
B. 
Legal currency required. No person shall deposit or attempt to deposit in any parking meter any slug, button or other device or substance as a substitute for a coin of United States currency.
C. 
Injury to meters. It shall be unlawful for any person to deface, injure, tamper with, willfully break, destroy or impair the usefullness of, or open without lawful authority, any parking meter.
The fees for use of the parking meter zones established pursuant to this Article shall be as indicated in Schedule XXIII (§ 183-66).
Notwithstanding the provisions of this Article, there shall be two hours of free on-street parking (for shoppers only) in the Central Business District.