§ 70-594. Deposit of coins and time limits.

(a)

No person shall park a vehicle in any parking space upon a street or in a city-owned or city-operated off-street parking facility 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 or coins of United States currency of appropriate denomination as provided in this division shall have been deposited therein, or shall have been previously deposited therein for an unexpired interval of time, and such meter has been placed in operation.

(b)

No person shall permit a vehicle within his control 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 subsection shall not apply to the act of parking or necessary time which is required to deposit immediately thereafter a coin or coins 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 maximum limited period of time for which the 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)

Any person violating any provision of this section shall be punished by a fine of not less than $15.00.

(e)

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 vehicle code prohibiting or limiting the stopping, standing or parking of vehicles in specified places or at specified times.

(Code of Gen. Ords. 1967, § 34.231; Ord. No. 41525, 10-20-72; Ord. No. 48925, 4-7-78; Ord. No. 56381, 8-16-84; Ord. No. 931216, 12-16-93; Ord. No. 160589 , § 2, 8-18-16)