(a) No person shall park a vehicle in a space adjacent to a street parking meter unless the curb side wheels of such a vehicle are parallel with and not more than twelve (12) inches from the curb. The front and rear extremities of the vehicle shall be between adjacent meter posts or not more than three (3) feet from the post of an end meter. Whenever a vehicle is parked in a street parking meter zone where a meter has been installed, the person parking such vehicle shall deposit in such parking meter a coin of United States money of the denomination designated on the plates attached to such parking meter, if such meter displays the signal showing that legal parking is only permitted on such deposit.
(b) The coins required in parking meter zones shall be as follows:
(1) In the Downtown Parking Area, as defined in Section 403.04, but excluding Institutional Areas and long-term parking zones, as defined herein, one dollar ($1.00) per hour or twenty-five cents ($0.25) per fifteen (15) minute period;
(2) In Institutional Areas, seventy-five cents ($0.75) per hour or any portion thereof. For purposes of this section, an "Institutional Area" means the area adjacent to any hospital or educational institution in the City;
(3) In all other areas of the City, twenty-five cents ($0.25) per hour or any portion thereof;
(4) In long term parking zones, within the Downtown Parking Area, as defined in Section 403.04, fifty cents ($0.50) per hour up to a maximum of three dollars ($3.00) (all day rate). For purposes of this section, "long term parking zone" means an area where parking is permitted for up to ten (10) hours.
(c) Notice to the public shall be given by appropriate signs, setting forth the length of time for which parking is permitted and the conditions thereof. These may be upon the parking meter stand or in the immediate vicinity. Any vehicle which remains in a metered parking zone after the prescribed time for parking is hereby determined to be illegally parked. At each place where street metered parking zones are so established as provided in Section 403.06 and are so marked off, each vehicle shall be parked entirely within a metered parking zone space. The provisions of this section shall not apply to vehicles parking upon the street of the City between the hours of 6:00 p.m. In the evening until 7:00 a.m. the following morning and upon Saturdays, Sundays, New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, and Martin Luther King Day, unless a different rule or regulation is otherwise set forth in this Traffic Code, and shall not apply to any parking meter space in the downtown parking area, as defined in Section 403.04, on the day after Thanksgiving ("Black Friday") and December 26th.
(Ord. No. 1394-14. Passed 4-13-15, eff. 4-14-15)