(a) No person shall park a vehicle in an individual street parking space within a parking meter zone unless the curb side wheels of such a vehicle are parallel with and not more than twelve (12) inches from the curb. Whenever a vehicle is parked in a street parking meter zone, the person parking such vehicle shall remit the required parking fee.
(b) The Director of Public Works is authorized to charge and cause to be collected the payment required in parking meter zones such charges and fees ranging from one dollar ($1.00) per hour to eight dollars ($8.00) per hour in the Downtown Parking Area and one dollar ($1.00) per hour to five dollars ($5.00) per hour outside of the Downtown Parking Area and is further authorized to establish regulations that set forth the days of the week, hours of the day, and intervals of time for which parking is permissible.
(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, each vehicle shall be parked entirely within a metered parking zone The provisions of this section shall not apply to vehicles parking upon the street of the City between the hours of 10:00 p.m. until 7:00 a.m. the following morning and upon New Year’s Day, Martin Luther King Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, the day after Thanksgiving Day (“Black Friday”), Christmas Day, and the day after Christmas Day, unless a different rule or regulation is otherwise set forth in this Traffic Code. The Director of Public Works, in the Director’s discretion, may exempt provisions of this section on an as-needed basis.
(Ord. No. 817-2023. Passed 9-18-23, eff. 9-21-23)