A. Parking meter hoods/placards are permits to park vehicles at parking meters upon the streets in any parking meter district or in a municipal public parking lot. When a validly issued parking meter hood/placard is displayed upon a parking meter, the person operating such vehicle shall be exempt from the provisions of this division requiring the depositing of coins in the parking meter so covered.
B. Parking meter hoods/placards shall be only issued to a person actually engaged in a construction, maintenance, or a loading/unloading activity at a site adjacent to or within a reasonable distance of a parking meter.
C. Parking meter hoods/placards shall not be issued for a period exceeding one month.
D. No person shall knowingly represent or intentionally falsify any information which is required in order to obtain a parking meter hood/placard.
E. No person shall park a vehicle using a parking meter hood/placard at such person's place of business. An exception may be authorized by the city manager or the city manager's designee for placards and the restrictions shall be so noted on the placards.
F. The city manager is hereby authorized to establish a fee for the issuance of a parking meter hood/placard. Such fee shall bear a reasonable relationship to the income received by the city from the operation of the meters in the parking meter district or in the municipal parking lot in which the meter is located. No parking meter hood/placard shall be issued until the fee therefor has been prepaid.
G. The city manager, in addition to establishing a prepaid parking rental fee, may collect a deposit to ensure the safe and prompt return of the parking meter hood/placard.
H. The city manager or the city manager's designee is authorized to revoke the parking meter hood/placard of any person who violates any condition under which the hood/placard was issued without making any refund or proration of the prepaid fee.
I. A person requesting a placard at such person's place of business shall submit a request in writing to the city manager or the city manager's designee stating the necessity for the placard and specific dates and times required. A placard shall not be issued for more than seventy two (72) hours per month. (Ord. 44-08, 6-16-2008)