Chapter 10.28
PARKING METERS
Sections:
10.28.020 Installation authority.
10.28.030 Parking space markings.
10.28.040 Installation at parking spaces.
10.28.050 Maximum time limits.
10.28.090 Operation of meters – Occupation of spaces.
10.28.110 Extending parking time over maximum.
10.28.115 Continuing violations – Additional offenses.
10.28.120 Defacing or destroying meters.
10.28.020 Installation authority.
The Director is authorized to install, or cause to be installed, parking meters in all parking meter zones established by this title or hereafter created by the City Council in such numbers and in such places as, in his judgment, may be necessary for the regulation, control and inspection of the parking of vehicles therein. [Ord. 7-2009 §3, eff. 5-1-2009; Ord. 2000-14A §1, eff. 10-25-2000; Ord. 2000-1 §1, eff. 7-1-2000]
10.28.030 Parking space markings.
A. The Director is authorized to install and maintain parking space markings to indicate parking space adjacent to curbs where authorized parking is permitted and in parking lots especially designated therefor.
B. When such parking space markings are placed in the highway, subject to other and more restrictive limitations, no vehicle shall be stopped or left standing other than within a single space unless the size or shape of such vehicle makes compliance impossible. [Ord. 7-2009 §3, eff. 5-1-2009; Ord. 2000-14A §1, eff. 10-25-2000; Ord. 2000-1 §1, eff. 7-1-2000]
10.28.040 Installation at parking spaces.
The Director is authorized to install and maintain between the sidewalk and the street immediately adjacent to each street parking space and at a convenient location with respect to each parking lot parking space, a parking meter for the purpose of regulating the parking within each parking space so marked. [Ord. 7-2009 §3, eff. 5-1-2009; Ord. 2000-14A §1, eff. 10-25-2000; Ord. 2000-1 §1, eff. 7-1-2000]
10.28.050 Maximum time limits.
The maximum parking time limits within designated portions of the parking meter zones shall be as provided by this title and shown by proper signs erected and maintained. [Ord. 7-2009 §3, eff. 5-1-2009; Ord. 2000-14A §1, eff. 10-25-2000; Ord. 2000-1 §1, eff. 7-1-2000]
10.28.060 Specifications.
Each parking meter shall be so set as to display a signal showing legal parking upon the deposit of the appropriate coin or coins, lawful money of the United States, for the period of time prescribed by this chapter.
Each parking meter 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 cases the right of such vehicle to occupy such space shall cease. [Ord. 7-2009 §3, eff. 5-1-2009; Ord. 2000-14A §1, eff. 10-25-2000; Ord. 2000-1 §1, eff. 7-1-2000]
10.28.070 Rates.
Parking or standing a vehicle in a designated street parking space, or in a designated parking lot space, in a parking meter zone is lawful for eighty (80) minutes upon the deposit of Zero and 25/100ths ($0.25) Dollars for each twenty (20) minutes of time. [Ord. 7-2009 §3, eff. 5-1-2009; Ord. 2000-14A §1, eff. 10-25-2000; Ord. 2000-1 §1, eff. 7-1-2000]
10.28.080 Hours of operation.
Parking meters shall be operated in the parking meter zone at all hours of every day. [Ord. 7-2009 §3, eff. 5-1-2009; Ord. 2000-14A §1, eff. 10-25-2000; Ord. 2000-1 §1, eff. 7-1-2000]
10.28.090 Operation of meters – Occupation of spaces.
When any vehicle is parked in any space alongside of or near to the place where a parking meter is located, the operator of the vehicle shall immediately, after entering the parking meter space, deposit or cause to be deposited in such meter such proper coin of the United States as is required by EGMC Section 10.28.070 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. Failure to deposit the proper coin and to set the timing mechanism in operation when so required constitutes a violation of this chapter.
Upon the deposit of the 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 the parking space is located; provided, that any persons 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 the space does not exceed the indicated unused parking time. [Ord. 7-2009 §3, eff. 5-1-2009; Ord. 2000-14A §1, eff. 10-25-2000; Ord. 2000-1 §1, eff. 7-1-2000]
10.28.100 Overtime parking.
No person shall cause, allow, permit or suffer any motor 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; nor shall any person cause, allow, permit or suffer any motor vehicle registered in the name of or operated by such person to remain in any space opposite of which there is a parking meter when such parking meter displays a signal indicating illegal use of the space.
The display of a signal showing illegal parking on any parking meter while a motor vehicle is parked in a space adjoining the parking meter shall be prima facie evidence that the motor vehicle has been parked overtime and beyond the parking period of time. [Ord. 7-2009 §3, eff. 5-1-2009; Ord. 2000-14A §1, eff. 10-25-2000; Ord. 2000-1 §1, eff. 7-1-2000]
10.28.110 Extending parking time over maximum.
No person shall cause, allow, permit or suffer to be deposited in a parking meter coins for the purpose of extending the parking time of such vehicle beyond the maximum time allowed for parking as designated by the posted signs. [Ord. 7-2009 §3, eff. 5-1-2009; Ord. 2000-14A §1, eff. 10-25-2000; Ord. 2000-1 §1, eff. 7-1-2000]
10.28.115 Continuing violations – Additional offenses.
Every person violating the provisions of EGMC Sections 10.28.100 and 10.28.110 is guilty of a separate and further violation for each additional period of time that the vehicle is so parked, equal to the maximum legal parking time for the particular meter. Each complete time period, plus any remaining fraction of said time period, shall constitute a separate violation. [Ord. 7-2009 §3, eff. 5-1-2009; Ord. 2000-14A §1, eff. 10-25-2000; Ord. 2000-1 §1, eff. 7-1-2000]
10.28.120 Defacing or destroying meters.
No person shall deface, injure, tamper with, open or wilfully break, destroy or impair the usefulness of any parking meter installed under the provisions of this chapter. [Ord. 7-2009 §3, eff. 5-1-2009; Ord. 2000-14A §1, eff. 10-25-2000; Ord. 2000-1 §1, eff. 7-1-2000]
10.28.130 Citations.
A peace officer, or any City employee acting under the direction and control of the Chief of Police, may issue a citation for overtime parking at a meter. The person issuing the citation shall take the number of any meter at which the vehicle is overparked, as provided in this chapter, the State vehicle license and registration expiration date of the vehicle, the time and date of such overparking, the color, and, if possible, the make of the vehicle. The person shall then issue, in writing, a citation for overtime parking in the same form and subject to the same procedure provided by the laws of the State applicable to traffic violations within the City. [Ord. 7-2009 §3, eff. 5-1-2009; Ord. 2000-14A §1, eff. 10-25-2000; Ord. 2000-1 §1, eff. 7-1-2000]
10.28.140 Use of funds.
The money required to be deposited in parking meters as provided in this chapter is hereby levied and assessed as fees to provide for the proper regulation and control of traffic and to cover the cost of the supervision, inspection, installation, maintenance, control and use of the parking meter zones. [Ord. 7-2009 §3, eff. 5-1-2009; Ord. 2000-14A §1, eff. 10-25-2000; Ord. 2000-1 §1, eff. 7-1-2000]
10.28.150 Penalty.
Violation of any of the provisions of this chapter shall be an infraction punishable by fine as provided for by the laws of the State and EGMC Chapter 1.04. [Ord. 7-2009 §3, eff. 5-1-2009; Ord. 2000-14A §1, eff. 10-25-2000; Ord. 2000-1 §1, eff. 7-1-2000]