[Adopted 9-23-1976 as Secs.
18-12 through 18-19 of the Charter and Revised Ordinances]
Any provisions of this article to the contrary notwithstanding, any
and all provisions of this article shall be deemed to apply to parking meters
placed on, to operators who make use of and to the parking of vehicles on
the municipal parking lot on Caroline Street.
Whenever because of traffic conditions or otherwise the parking of vehicles
on any public street or part thereof cannot in the opinion of the Traffic
Authority of the city be adequately and efficiently regulated and controlled,
the Traffic Authority of the city has authorized the installation of parking
meters and designated parking meter zones, fixed the zone parking fee and
the legal parking time in such zone, and has also fixed the hours during which
the use of parking meters shall be required, and the Chief of Police in accordance
therewith has caused lines or markers to be placed upon the curb or pavement,
or both, of the street adjacent to each parking meter in such zone designating
the parking meter space for which such meter is to be used. Any and all other
provisions of this article notwithstanding, no new parking meters may be installed
and no new parking meter zones may be designated without the prior approval
of the Board of Aldermen.
When any vehicle shall be parked in any parking meter space adjacent
to which a parking meter is located, the operator of such vehicle shall park
it within the lines or marks established, excepting such vehicles whose length,
width or load overlap such lines or marks, and upon entering such parking
meter space, immediately deposit or cause to be deposited in the parking meter
such proper coin of the United States as is required by the Traffic Authority
for such parking meter and as is designated by proper directions on the meter,
and when required by directions on the meter, the operator of such vehicle
after the deposit of the proper coin shall also completely turn or cause to
be turned the crank handle on the parking meter for the purpose of starting
the timing mechanism, and failure to deposit such proper coin, and to turn
the crank handle when so required, shall constitute a violation of this article.
Upon the deposit of such proper coin, and placing such meter in operation,
the parking meter space may be lawfully occupied by such vehicle during the
period of parking time which has been prescribed for the part of the street
in which the parking meter space is located. If such vehicle shall remain
parked in any such parking meter space beyond the parking time limit fixed
for such parking meter space, and if the parking meter shall by its dial and
pointer or otherwise indicate such illegal parking, then in that event, such
parking overtime and beyond the period of legal parking time shall be deemed
a violation of this article.
It shall be unlawful to deposit in any parking meter any slug, device
or substitute for a proper coin of the United States.
It shall be unlawful for any person not so authorized to deface, damage,
tamper with, open or willfully break, destroy or impair the usefulness of
any parking meter installed under the provisions of this article or aid or
abet in doing the same.
It shall be unlawful for any person to deposit or cause to be deposited
in any parking meter additional proper coins of the United States for the
purpose of increasing or extending the legal parking time which has been established
by the Traffic Authority for the parking meter space adjacent to which such
parking meter is placed.
Vehicles bearing commercial license plates may occupy the parking meter
space adjacent to any parking meter for the purpose of loading or unloading
merchandise or packages without the deposit of a proper coin in such parking
meter, provided that such loading or unloading is done as expeditiously as
possible.
It shall be the duty of the Chief of Police to designate the officer
of the Police Department to make regular collections of the coins deposited
in parking meters. It shall be the duty of such person to take out coins which
have been deposited in the parking meters and deliver such coins to the office
of the Chief of Police of the city.
