§ 401.30 Operate for Hire

   “Operate for hire” includes “plying for hire” and “carrying passengers for hire” and means the engaging by any person, firm or corporation, directly or through any agent, lessee, representative, officer or employee in the business of transporting persons, or of providing or furnishing such transportation service, for hire to the public generally or under special or individual contracts, over the streets and highways of the City, and also includes the soliciting of public patronage upon the streets and highways of the City, the demanding, accepting or receiving of any compensation, remuneration, reward, gift, donation, gratuity, tip or other consideration, for transporting any person or persons over the public streets of this City, whether the amount received is equal to, greater or less than the rates prescribed in Section 443.26; the holding out of himself, herself, themselves or itself to the general public as prepared to transport any person or persons without charge or for such fee as the person or persons transported may voluntarily contribute; and the employing of any other scheme, device or method to circumvent or evade the provisions of this Traffic Code.

(Ord. No. 1684-76. Passed 6-29-76, eff. 7-6-76)

§ 401.31 Park or Parking

   “Park” or “parking” means the standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise than temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading.

(Ord. No. 1684-76. Passed 6-29-76, eff. 7-6-76)

§ 401.32 Parking Key or Parking Card

   “Parking key” or “parking card” means any key or card or similar device issued by the Commissioner of Traffic Engineering and Parking designed to be inserted into a parking meter upon a Municipal parking facility or automatically operated gate so that upon such insertion the parking meter or automatically operated gate will be set into operation.

(Ord. No. 1684-76. Passed 6-29-76, eff. 7-6-76)

§ 401.33 Parking Meter

   “Parking meter” means any mechanical or electronic device used, placed, installed, or erected upon a Municipal parking facility or in a metered parking zone where it is indicated thereon the legal parking time established by the City or otherwise on property that is owned, leased, or operated by the City. A parking meter includes, but is not limited to, single space meters, multi-space meters, and parking mobile payment applications authorized by the City.

(Ord. No. 817-2023. Passed 9-18-23, eff. 9-21-23)

§ 401.331 Parking Meter Zone

   “Parking meter zone” means any section of a street or highway where parking meters are installed adjacent to the curb.

(Ord. No. 188-16. Passed 10-16-17, eff. 10-20-17)

§ 401.34 Parking Place

   “Parking place” means any garage or other building or part thereof, or any premises or parcel of land in or upon which a business of storing more than ten (10) motor vehicles in any twenty-four (24) hour period is conducted for eight (8) months or more in any calendar year, where the owner or person storing such vehicles is charged a fee, but excluding the rental of private garages and the all-night storing of vehicles upon the premises of and in connection with the operation of regularly established gasoline stations.

(Ord. No. 1684-76. Passed 6-29-76, eff. 7-6-76)

§ 401.35 Parking Space

   “Parking space” means any space within Municipal parking facility which is designated for the parking of a single vehicle by markings on the surface of the Municipal parking facility.

(Ord. No. 1684-76. Passed 6-29-76, eff. 7-6-76)

§ 401.36 Parking Token

   “Parking token” means any special coin or device issued by the Commissioner of Traffic Engineering and Parking, designed to be deposited into a parking meter upon a Municipal parking facility or automatically operated gate so that upon such deposit the parking meter or automatically operated gate will be set into operation.

(Ord. No. 1684-76. Passed 6-29-76, eff. 7-6-76)