(a) When any vehicle is parked in any space alongside, next to or in front of which is located a parking meter, the owner, operator, manager or driver of such vehicle shall, upon entering the parking space, immediately deposit the required fee and shall set the meter in accordance with the instructions contained thereon. The parking space may then be used by such vehicle during the parking limits permitted. If such vehicle shall remain parked in such parking space beyond the permitted period, the parking meter shall display a sign indicating illegal parking and such vehicle shall be considered parked overtime. Each hour that any violation continues shall constitute a separate offense. It shall be unlawful for any person or operator to cause, allow, permit or suffer any vehicle registered in his name or under his control to be parked overtime or beyond the lawful periods of time as set forth.
(b) This section shall be in effect between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. each day, except Sunday, New Year's Day, Martin Luther King Holiday (third Monday in January), Good Friday (Friday before Easter Sunday), Memorial Day (last Monday in May), Independence Day, Labor Day (first Monday in September), Thanksgiving Day, Thanksgiving Friday, and three Christmas holidays observed by the city (Christmas Day, along with the first work day prior to and the first work day after Christmas Day). This section shall also not be applicable for any vehicle for which a limited event fee sticker has been purchased from the city and affixed to the motor vehicle for a limited event for vehicles, including automobiles and motorcycles, which limited event stickers shall allow the vehicle to which the sticker is affixed to remain parked in such parking space during an entire day of the limited event for that year, as set forth on the sticker.
(Code 1965, § 28-117; Ord. No. 1952, § 1, 10-29-91; Ord. No. 2579, § 1, 6-8-99)