[Adopted 9-23-1976 as Secs. 18-20 through 18-27 of the Charter and Revised Ordinances]
The Traffic Authority of the city is hereby authorized to designate and to set out a certain portion of the municipal parking lot on Caroline Street as a parking rental zone and to designate the number of parking rental spaces to be included within such zone.
Each such parking rental space so designated by the Traffic Authority under the preceding section shall be available for public parking at the monthly rental charge of $3, and such rental charge shall be paid to a duly authorized agent to be designated by such Traffic Authority, which agent is authorized to issue to each vehicle for which such rental charge is paid a sticker indicating the registration number of the vehicle, the number of the parking rental space and the date of issuance.
Such sticker, issued pursuant to § 186-21, shall not be transferable to any other vehicle and it shall entitle such vehicle to be parked in the rental space indicated thereon for a period of one calendar month from the date of issuance, and it shall be automatically renewable thereafter from month to month upon payment to the agent of the Traffic Authority, on or before the last day of each calendar month, a like charge of $3 for the next succeeding calendar month.
Upon failure of the holder of a sticker issued pursuant to § 186-21 to pay his rental charge for the next succeeding month on or before the last day of the preceding month, such sticker shall be automatically revoked and such vehicle or any operator of same shall have no further parking rights or privileges thereunder; provided, however, that nothing herein shall be construed as preventing the issuance of a new sticker to the same vehicle after such revocation so long as the provisions of this article are otherwise complied with.
Whenever any vehicle shall be parked in any parking rental space, the operator of such vehicle shall park it within the lines or marks established, except such vehicles whose length, width or load overlap the lines or marks. If such vehicles shall be parked in any such parking rental space beyond the time during which such vehicle or any operator of same shall have parking rights and privileges under any sticker issued for such vehicle as provided in this article, then, in such event, such vehicle parking time and such parking overtime and beyond the period of legal parking time shall be deemed a violation of this article.
So long as the sticker issued under § 186-21 shall be legally operative as provided in this article, the operator of the vehicle exhibiting such sticker on the front windshield of the vehicle shall be permitted to park in the parking rental space assigned to it any time.
All revenues collected from the renting of parking spaces under this article shall be collected by an agent to be designated by the Traffic Authority under the supervision of the Chief of Police. Such funds shall periodically be transferred by the Chief of Police to the City Treasurer to be placed by him in a special account and to be used for the purpose specified in this article.
The revenues received from the renting of the parking spaces are required to provide for the proper regulation and control of traffic upon the public streets in the city and to provide for the cost of acquisition of off-street parking facilities in the city.