15-612. Regulations for metered parking.
   (1)   On streets where parking meters have been installed, parking shall be regulated between the hours of 8:30 A.M. and 4:00 P.M. on all days except Saturdays, Sundays and those holidays observed by the City of Cookeville. Alternate time restrictions may be established by the City Manager. The presumption shall be that all parking meters were lawfully installed by the City of Cookeville.
   (2)   Any parking space regulated by a parking meter may be lawfully occupied by a vehicle only after a proper payment has been deposited in the parking meter and the said meter has been activated or placed in operation in accordance with the instructions printed thereon.
   (3)   No owner or operator of any vehicle shall park or allow his vehicle to be parked in such a space when the parking meter therefor indicates no parking time allowed, whether such indication is the result of a failure to deposit payment or to operate the lever or other actuating device on the meter, or the result of the automatic operation of the meter following the expiration of the lawful parking time subsequent to depositing payment therein at the time the vehicle was parked.
   (4)   It shall be unlawful for the owner or operator of any vehicle to park or allow his vehicle to be parked across any line or marking designating a parking meter space or otherwise so that such vehicle is not entirely within the designated parking meter space; provided, however, that vehicles which are too large to park within one space may be permitted to occupy two adjoining spaces provided proper payment is placed in both meters. This shall not apply if the parking meter is not functioning properly.
   (5)   It shall be unlawful for any unauthorized person to open, deface, tamper with, willfully break, destroy, or impair the usefulness of any parking meter.
   (6)   It shall be unlawful for any person to deposit in a parking meter any slug or other substitute for a coin of the United States other than those coins designated on the meter as proper, or provide other fraudulent forms of payment to parking meters. (Ord. #O17-10-18, Dec. 2017)