(a) Whenever a vehicle shall be parked in a parking zone where a parking meter or parking pay station has been installed, the person parking such vehicle shall deposit in such parking meter or pay station a coin of United States money of the denomination designated on the plates attached to such parking meter or the coin or other form of payment indicated at the pay station, if such meter or device displays the signal or other indication showing that legal parking is only permitted on such deposit; and if such parking meter requires the movement of a lever or other action as well as the deposit of a coin or other form of payment indicated as acceptable at the device to cause the meter or device to operate, the person so depositing the coin or other accepted form of payment shall immediately so move the lever or follow the instructions at the device as to set the meter or device in operation. The payment required in any parking zone where there is a parking meter or parking pay station shall be as follows:
(1) For short-term meters, which shall be defined as meters providing parking for six hours or less or parking garages where a central point of payment is provided:
A. Up to the first thirty minutes free;
B. 30 minutes parking for each quarter; or
C. 60 minutes parking for $0.50 dollar up to the time limit designated on the meter or pay station.
(2) For long-term meters, which shall be defined as all meters providing in excess of 6 hours of parking, including 12 and 24 hour meters:
A. 1 hour of parking per quarter, up to the time limit indicated at the meter. (Ord. 148-2007. Passed 11-19-07.)
(b) 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 metered parking zones are so established as provided in Section 353.01 and are so marked off, each vehicle shall be parked entirely within a metered parking zone.
(c) The provisions of this section shall not apply to vehicles parked upon the streets of the City between the hours of 6:00 p.m. in the evening until 8:00 a.m. the following morning and upon Sundays and holidays, other than Saturday afternoon, unless a different rule or regulation is otherwise set forth on the particular meter.
(Ord. 23-1984. Passed 3-19-84.)