(a) The City hereby establishes parking meter rates for all City metered parking spaces as follows:
Adams Street meters: $0.75 per hour or proportionate thereto for any fraction of an hour; and
All other metered spaces: $0.50 per hour or proportionate thereto for any fraction of an hour.
Provided however that any eligible resident of a designated street identified in subsection (c) hereof who shall prepay, in full, the permit fee provided for in subsection (b) hereof shall be entitled to park one (1) passenger vehicle in one (1) non-specific metered on-street vehicular parking space within the designated street only without paying the required hourly rate.
(b) Rates: For purposes of subsection (a) above, the following rates for each permit are hereby established:
Annual Permit: two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00)/yr;
Monthly Permit: twenty-five dollars ($25.00)/mo.
(c) Permits; Rules: The City Manager is hereby authorized to issue pre-paid parking permits to eligible residents of City Center Streets, as designated by written order of the City Manager. The City Manager shall promulgate rules, regulations and definitions governing the issuance, display, and use of said pre-paid parking permits. Said rules shall include, but not be limited to rules governing the determination of eligibility of residents who may be provided the opportunity to purchase a pre-paid parking permit and the number of pre-paid parking permits which each resident may purchase.
(d) Applicability of Other Parking Regulations: Nothing contained herein shall be construed as permitting the parking of any passenger vehicle to which a pre-paid parking permit has been issued in violation of any other City ordinance or law.
(e) Non-lease: Nothing contained herein shall be construed as establishing the issuance of a pre-paid parking permit as a lease or an entitlement to an on-street metered parking space.
(f) For the use of the Mid-City Parking Lot, there shall be a charge for vehicular parking of a vehicle of fifty cents ($.50) per hour, if paid by the hour, or two dollars ($2.00) per eight hour day, if paid by the day, or $30.00 per month, if paid by the month. Provided, however, no vehicle shall be parked on the premises for any period exceeding twelve hours. Vehicles in violation of the foregoing shall be subject to removal from the premises and penalties. With the approval of the City, the premises may be used to store goods and items other than vehicles. The rates shall be twelve dollars ($12.00) per month per parking space.
(g) For the use of Parcel No. 34 of Marion County Tax Map 03-01, commonly referred to as “The Old Armory Lot”, there shall be a charge for passenger vehicular parking of a vehicle of fifty cents ($.50) per hour, if paid by the hour, or two dollars ($2.00) per eight hour day, if paid by the day, or thirty-five dollars ($35.00) per month, if paid by the month.
(h) For the use of the Parking Facility located upon all or part of Parcel Nos. 44, 45, 46, 49, and 50 of Marion County Tax Map 03-01, there shall be a charge for passenger vehicular parking as follows:
(1) For the first hour and for each hour thereafter up to four hours, an hourly rate of seventy-five cents ($0.75) per hour per vehicle;
(2) For daily parking in excess of four hours and until 11:59 p.m. of the same date, a daily rate of four dollars ($4.00) per day per vehicle;
(3) For monthly parking in an uncovered space, twenty-five dollars ($25.00) per month per vehicle;
(4) For monthly parking in a covered space, twenty-five dollars ($25.00) per month per vehicle; or
(5) City approved special events held on weekdays after 5:00 p.m., and on weekends, $50.00 per event, which must be paid three days in advance of the event.
(i) For the use of Parcel Nos. 202, 203, 204, 205, 206 and 207, inclusive, of Marion County Tax Map 03-01, situate in Fairmont City District and commonly referred to as “The Ace Exterminator Lot” there shall be a charge for passenger vehicular parking of a vehicle of fifty cents ($.50) per hour, if paid by the hour, or two dollars ($20.00) per eight hour day, if paid by the day.
(j) For the use of the parking facility located directly adjacent to Veterans’ Plaza consisting of approximately twenty-nine (29) vehicular parking spaces, there shall be a charge for vehicular parking of twenty-five dollars ($25.00) per month per vehicle.
(k) For the use of Parcel No. 24 of Marion County Tax Map 03-01, situate in Fairmont City District and commonly referred to as “The OIC Lot” there shall be a charge for passenger vehicular parking of a vehicle of fifty cents ($.50) per hour, if paid by the hour, or two dollars ($2.00) per eight hour day, if paid by the day.
(l) Any person who shall prepay, in full, for a period of eleven consecutive months for a vehicular parking space in a vehicular parking facility, garage or lot owned by the City of Fairmont where vehicular parking is available on a per month basis shall receive one (1) additional consecutive month of parking at no additional charge.
(m) Repeal of Inconsistent Provisions; Savings Clause: Any provision of any ordinance which purports to establish rates for vehicular parking for any parking facility or meter inconsistent with the provisions of this section be and are hereby repealed, except that rights acquired or liabilities incurred, or cause or causes of action accrued, and all legal rights and remedies of any character under any such provision shall not be lost, impaired or affected by this section, and to that extent but only to that extent the provisions of any ordinance heretofore repealed, shall be saved.
(n) Penalty: The provisions of Article 365 “Off Street Parking Facilities” and Article 363 “Parking Meters” of the Fairmont City Code shall be and are hereby made applicable to the provisions of this section in their entirety.
(Ord. 1843. Passed 11-26-19.)