Sec. 19-167. Exemptions from sections 19-163 through 19-166.

During actual loading and unloading of delivery trucks and commercial vehicles within the parking meter zones, the operators of such vehicles shall be exempt from the provisions of sections 19-163 through 19-166.

(Code 1965, § 28-121)

Sec. 19-168. Deposit of slugs.

(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)

Sec. 19-169. Defacing or injuring meter.

(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)

Sec. 19-170. Use of meter proceeds.

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Editor's note(s)—Chapter 160 of the General Statutes of North Carolina has been repealed.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.

DIVISION 3. CITY PARKING LOTS 2

 

Notes

2	State law reference(s)— Authority to own and regulate offstreet parking facilities, G.S. 160A-302.

Sec. 19-181. Purpose.

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)