(a) No person shall deposit or cause to be deposited in any parking meter any slug, device or metallic substitute for such required coin of the United States. No person shall injure, tamper with, open or wilfully break, destroy or impair the usefulness of any parking meter installed under the terms of this article, nor shall any person, other than those duly authorized, remove coins from any parking meter.
(b) No person shall park any vehicle across any line or marking designating a parking space, or park a vehicle in any way that it is not wholly within the parking space as designated by the lines or markings, and in such manner that such vehicle shall not be alongside of or next to the parking meter adjacent to such parking space. (1976 Code Sec. 18-178)