When a vehicle is to be parked in any space adjacent to a parking meter in any metered parking lot, the driver of the vehicle, upon entering that parking space, shall immediately deposit or cause to be deposited in that parking meter one or more proper coins of the United States as specified in the legend on the parking meter. Upon the deposit of the coin or coins and placing the meter in operation, the parking space may be lawfully occupied by the vehicle for the time indicated on the meter. If any vehicle shall remain in any such parking space for such length of time that the meter shall indicate by proper signal that the lawful parking time has expired, that vehicle shall be considered as having been parked overtime, and the parking of a vehicle overtime shall be a violation of this section.
(1988 Code § 7-1095)