(A) Parking rules. No person shall park any vehicle or permit a vehicle to remain parked in any parking; meter zone for a period longer than designated on such meter, between the hours designated thereon, except on Sundays and the following days. The first of January; the thirtieth of May; the fourth day of July; the first Monday of September; the twenty-fifth day of December and the day designated and set aside by the President of the United States as a day of Thanksgiving, and no person shall park a vehicle in any zone without paying the fee hereinafter designated, or permit s vehicle to remain parked longer in any such zone than for the period for which the fee was paid, except on Sundays and holidays.
(B) Installation.
(1) Placement. Parking meters shall be installed in the parking meter zones as established and provided for by ordinance and shall be placed upon the curb immediately adjacent to the individual parking places hereinafter described. Each parking meter shall be placed or set in such a manner as to show or display by a signal whether or not the parking space adjacent to such meter is legally in use.
(2) Markings. Suitable markings shall be painted or placed upon the curb or street adjacent to each; parking meter for the purpose of designating the parking space and the angle at which vehicles are parked to the curb. Each vehicle parking with any parking meter zone shall park within the line or markings so established. It shall be unlawful to park any vehicle across any such line or marking or to park said vehicle in such a position that the same shall not be entirely within the area designated by such line or markings.
(C) Placing coins in meters. Any person desiring to park any vehicle within such parking meter space shall deposit the proper coins for the time desired as prescribed by ordinance and as posted on said meter:
(1) One cent for each 12 minutes of time desired;
(2) Five cents or one nickel for each hour of time desired; and
(3) Twenty-five cents for eight hours of time desired.
(D) Tampering with meters. It shall be unlawful for any person not authorized by the Board of Trustees to deface, injure, tamper with, open or willfully break, destroy or impair the usefulness of any parking meter installed under the provisions of this section. It shell be unlawful to deposit any slug, device or metallic or other substitute for a coin in any parking meter.
(E) A person convicted of violating this section shall be fined not less than $25 nor more than $500.
(Ord. 306, passed 12-7-1970)