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(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)
(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to deposit or cause to be deposited in any parking meter any slug, device or substitute in place of a United States coin.
(b) Violation of this section shall be an infraction and shall be punishable as provided in N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-4.
(Code 1965, § 28-122; Ord. No. 1952, § 1, 10-29-91; Ord. No. 4910, § 2, 11-9-21)
(a) No unauthorized person shall deface, injure, tamper with, open or willfully break, destroy or impair the usefulness of any parking meter installed under the provisions of this division.
(b) Violation of this section shall be an infraction and shall be punishable as provided in N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-4.
(Code 1965, § 28-123; Ord. No. 4910, § 2, 11-9-21)
The proceeds derived from the use of parking meters shall be used exclusively for the purpose of making such regulation effective and for the expenses incurred by the city in the regulation and limitation of vehicular parking and traffic relating to such parking on the streets and highways of the city. The proceeds derived from the use of such parking meters may also be used to provide for the acquisition, construction, reconstruction, improvement, betterment or extension and operation of offstreet parking facilities, as defined in G.S. 160-414(d), and may be pledged to amortize bonds or other evidence of debts issued for such purposes.
(Code 1965, § 28-124)
Editor's note(s)—Chapter 160 of the General Statutes of North Carolina has been repealed. For a city's authority to establish and operate offstreet parking facilities, see G.S. 160A-302.
Secs. 19-171—19-180. Reserved.
This division shall be deemed and construed to be for a public purpose and for the preservation and protection of the public safety, the alleviation of congestion created by traffic and parking upon the public streets and ways and for the promotion of the welfare and convenience of the public. All of the provisions of this division shall be liberally construed with a view to the effectuation of such purposes.
(Code 1965, § 28-125)
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