(A) Duty of driver; limited exception for commercial vehicles; general exception on Sunday and holidays; exception for vehicles with parking permits. It shall be unlawful and a violation of this section to park a vehicle in a parking position indicated by a meter unless a coin of the United States of the denomination indicated on the meter for the time for which parking is desired is deposited immediately in the parking meter at such position; and failure to make such deposit shall constitute a violation of this section; provided, that commercial vehicles may load and unload in such parking space as provided by division (C) below; and provided, further, that vehicles may park in such parking spaces on Sundays and other holidays an provided by division (E) below; and provided, further that vehicles may park in such parking spaces upon the prominent display of a valid city metered parking permit.
(B) Indication of parking time; overtime parking. Upon depositing such coin, such driver shall place the parking meter in operation in accordance with the directions contained thereon, and each parking position may be lawfully occupied by such vehicle for the parking time prescribed for such parking position. If the vehicle shall remain in such parking position beyond the permitted parking time limit, the parking meter shall, by its dial or appropriate device, indicate illegal parking and thereafter such vehicle shall be held to be parked overtime and beyond the period of legal parking time and such overtime or illegal parking shall be a violation of this section.
(C) Loading or unloading trucks or commercial vehicles. No truck or commercial vehicle shall be parked at any time in any metered parking position, unless such parking is solely for the purpose of immediately loading or unloading such vehicle, and only for such purposes shall such a vehicle occupy a metered parking position without deposit of a five-cent coin.
(D) Time limits. Subject to the provisions for deposit of a coin, as specified by division (A) above, the permitted parking time in any metered parking position shall be limited to the period shown on the dial face of that particular meter, and such time limit shall apply between 9:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays; and, on Fridays such time limit shall apply between 9:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m.
(E) Sundays and holidays. The time limit for parking vehicles shall not apply on Sunday or on any legal holiday which is generally observed by business places located within the parking zone areas, nor to the days devoted to any city-wide events or celebrations announced by the Mayor; and during such excluded days vehicles may be parked in metered positions without the deposit of a coin in the parking meter.
(F) Free parking. There shall be free parking for vehicles in non-restrictive areas from December 1 of each year through January 1 of each following year.
(1991 Code, § 19-23) (Ord. passed 4-5-1956; Ord. passed 4-6-1961; Ord. passed 9-7-1995; Ord. 96-01, passed 1-18-1996) Penalty, see § 71.99