Division 2. Parking Meters.[230]
Sec. 18-82. Time and manner of parking in metered parking
zone.
(a) When parking meters are erected giving notice thereof,
no person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle in any metered
parking zone for a period of time longer than designated by
such parking meters, upon the deposit of a coin of United
States currency of the designated denomination, on any day
except Sundays, upon any of the streets where parking meters
are installed.
(b) Every vehicle shall be parked wholly within the
metered parking space for which the meter shows parking
privilege has been granted and with the front end of such
vehicle immediately opposite the parking meter for such space.
(Code 1959, § 18-82.)
Sec. 18-83. Parking meter zones established; authority of
city manager to change.
(a) Parking meter zones are hereby established within the
district or upon those streets or parts of streets and municipally
operated parking lots described in the parking meter
schedule approved by the city council on March 4, 1957, in
which zones the parking of vehicles upon such streets and
parking lots shall be regulated by parking meters between the
hours specified in such schedule on any day except Sundays.
(b) The city manager is hereby authorized to amend the
schedule respecting parking meter zones, time limits and
parking charges now in effect and respecting the establishment
of parking meter zones at other locations upon those
streets or parts of streets and municipally operated parking
lots, if it is determined upon investigation by the city manager
and the chief of police that such changes shall be necessary
to aid in the regulation, control and inspection of the
parking of vehicles. (Code 1959, § 18-83.)
Sec. 18-84. Installation and operation of meters.
(a) The city manager shall install parking meters in the
parking meter zones, upon the curb immediately adjacent to
each designated parking space. Such meters shall be capable
of being operated, either automatically or mechanically, upon
the deposit therein of a coin of United States currency as required
in the schedule provided for in section 18-83, for the
full period of time for which parking is lawfully permitted
in any such parking meter zone.
(b) Each parking meter shall be so designed, constructed,
installed and set that, upon the expiration of the time period
registered by the deposit of one or more coins, as provided
herein, it will indicate by an appropriate signal that the lawful
parking meter period has expired, and during such period
of time and prior to the expiration thereof, will indicate the
interval of time which remains of such period.
(c) Each parking meter shall bear thereon a legend indicating
the hours when the requirement to deposit coins therein
shall apply, the value of the coins to be deposited and the
limited period of time for which parking is lawfully permitted
in the parking meter zone in which such meter is located.
(Code 1959, § 18-84.)
Sec. 18-85. Designating parking meter spaces; manner of
parking in spaces.
(a) The chief of police shall designate the parking space
adjacent to each parking meter for which such meter is to be
used. Parking meter spaces so designated shall be of appropriate
length and width so as to be accessible from normal
traffic lanes.
(b) No person shall park a vehicle in any such designated
parking meter space during the restricted and regulated time
applicable to the parking meter zone in which such meter is
located so that any part of such vehicle occupies more than
one such space, except, that a vehicle which is of a size too
large to be parked within a single designated parking meter
zone shall be permitted to occupy two adjoining parking meter
spaces when coins shall have been deposited in the parking
meter for each space so occupied as is required for the parking
of other vehicles in such space. (Code 1959, § 18-85.)
Sec. 18-86. Deposit of coins; overtime parking; other provisions
as to parking not affected.
(a) No person shall park a vehicle in any parking space
upon a street, or within a municipally operated parking lot,
alongside of and next to which a parking meter has been installed
during the restricted and regulated time applicable to
the parking meter zone in which such meter is located, unless
a coin of United States currency of the appropriate denomination
shall have been deposited by such person and the meter
has been placed in operation.
(b) No person shall permit a vehicle operated by him,
within his control or registered in his name to be parked in
any such parking meter space during the restricted and regulated
time applicable to the parking meter zone in which such
meter is located while the parking meter for such space indicates
by signal that the lawful parking time in such space
has expired. This provision shall not apply to the act of
parking or the necessary time which is required to deposit
immediately thereafter a coin in such meter.
(c) No person shall park a vehicle in any such parking
meter space for a consecutive period of time longer than that
limited period of time for which parking is lawfully permitted
in the parking meter zone in which such meter is located,
irrespective of the number or amounts of the coins deposited
in such meter.
(d) The provisions of this section shall not relieve any person
from the duty to observe other and more restrictive provisions
of this chapter and the state statutes prohibiting or
limiting the stopping, standing or parking of vehicles in specified
places or at specified times. (Code 1959, § 18-8.)
Sec. 18-87. Slugs, etc.
No person shall deposit or attempt to deposit in any parking
meter or change machine any slug, button or other device
or substance as a substitute for a coin of United States currency.
(Code 1959, § 18-87.)
Sec. 18-88. Injuring or tampering with meter.
No person shall deface, injure, tamper with, open or wilfully
break, destroy or impair the usefulness of any parking
meter and no person shall wilfully manipulate any parking
meter in such a manner that the indicator will fail to show
the correct amount of unexpired time before a violation.
(Code 1959, § 18-88.)
Sec. 18-89. Parking for purpose of making sales.
It shall be unlawful to park any vehicle within the area
designated as a parking meter zone or within any municipally
operated parking lot for the purpose of making sales of any
property to persons in the street or in such parking lot. This
section shall not apply to the selling or delivery of goods sold
within the buildings abutting on such streets or parking lots.
(Code 1959, § 18-89.)
Sec. 18-90. Deposits required levied as fees for certain purposes.
The coins required to be deposited in parking meters as
provided herein are hereby levied and assessed as fees to provide
for the proper regulation and control of traffic on the
public streets and to cover the cost of the supervision, inspection,
installation, operation, maintenance, control and use of
the parking spaces on such streets and within such municipally
operated parking lots and for regulating the parking of
vehicles in the parking meter zones hereby created. (Code
1959, § 18-90.)
Sec. 18-91. Loading zones, bus stops, etc., in parking meter
zones.
The city manager and the chief of police are authorized to
set apart, within the parking meter zones, spaces for loading
zones, bus stops, taxi stands and other places in which no
parking shall be permitted. (Code 1959, § 18-91.)
Sec. 18-92. Use of meter space for making deliveries, receiving
passengers, etc.
Commercial vehicles may be parked without deposit from
7:00 A. M. to 10:00 A. M. in metered spaces which are set
aside for this purpose and so designated by hoods placed on
the meters stating "LOADING AND UNLOADING ZONES";
provided, that commercial vehicles may only occupy such spaces
during the time necessary to complete actual operations of
delivering or picking up merchandise.
Commercial vehicles which require only one regular parking
space may be parked anywhere in the metered zone at any time
and for any purpose, if the required deposit is made in the meter
and if all other parking and meter regulations are complied with.
No commercial vehicle which requires more than one regular
parking space may be parked on Main Street between 7th Street,
East, and Ridge Street or on Main Street between 14th Street,
West, and Chancellor Street during the hours from 10:00 A. M. to
6:00 P. M. on any day.
Passenger vehicles may not use the temporary or permanent
loading zones for any purpose. Commercial vehicles shall not use
the loading zones except for the purpose of promptly delivering or
picking up merchandise.
Operators of passenger or commercial vehicles may use,
without deposit, a parking meter space for the purpose of
promptly receiving or discharging any passenger. (Code 1959, §
18-92.)
Sec. 18-93. Division applicable only to parking between
certain hours.
The provisions of this article shall apply to parking only
between the hours of 8:00 A. M. and 6:00 P. M. on days other than
Sundays. (Code 1959, § 18-93.)
