The Board of Public Safety is hereby authorized and empowered:
(A) To enter into any contract for rental, purchase, acquisition, installation, regulation, use, operation, maintenance, repair, servicing and supplying of parts and replacements for parking meters, as the same may be necessary to carry out its authority hereunder, and to provide payment therefor exclusively from the funds, receipts and revenue obtained by the city from the operation and use of such parking meters without in anywise obligating the city to pay for the same from funds derived from any other source, and to do any and all things or acts necessary and appropriate to carry out and place in effect the purposes and intent of this division, including the determination and establishment of the specifications to be required in the purchase, lease or other acquisition of parking meters.
(B) To locate, determine and establish parking meter zones and parking meter space within such zones, within the parking meter area only and upon the advice of the Traffic Engineer
(1) Such parking meter spaces shall be designated and marked out or caused to be marked out by such Board by lines or marks painted or durably marked on the curbing or surface of the street about or alongside of each parking meter space for which a parking meter is to be installed and placed in use and within which lines each vehicle using such space shall park.
(2) In no event shall any parking meter zone or parking meter space be established in, upon or along any taxi stand, bus stop, loading zone or the farmer's and producer's retail market on Barr Street in this city or the portion of any street upon which parking is completely prohibited under and by virtue of this chapter or any other ordinance of this city or of the state; except, that as to loading zone such parking meter zones and parking meter spaces may be designated and established for use beginning with the end of the designated period for which such space or zone is set aside for loading purposes only and up to the time when such use again begins, and except, that as to the farmer's and producer's retail market on Barr Street in this city, such spaces may be designated and established for use during times other than duly established market hours.
(C) To determine and establish the size and measurement of parking meter spaces.
(D) To install and place parking meters upon the curb, sidewalk or space adjacent to and alongside of or near each parking meter space established and marked out or caused to be marked out by such board; provided, that each parking meter shall be installed and placed so as to show or display a signal that the parking meter space alongside of or adjacent to it is or is not in use and showing lawful parking and use of such parking meter space upon the deposit of the appropriate coins, lawful money of the United States of America, therein for the period of time prescribed as the parking limit established therefor and so as to indicate, upon the expiration of the lawful parking period or time limit, a proper visible signal that lawful parking has expired.
(E) To determine, subject to approval by the Common Council, by resolution duly adopted, the license fee to be charged and collected through and by use of the parking meter for each particular parking meter zone and parking meter space designated and marked out by such Board and for which a parking meter is installed; provided, that the maximum time limit for which such parking meter space may be used by payment of such license fee through the deposit of coin(s) in such parking meter shall be as prescribed by § 72.28 and the schedules referred to therein or made a part thereof and by any amendments, changes or additions thereto hereafter duly enacted.
(F) To employ individual persons to carry out the enforcement of the parking limitations in the parking meter zones and to perform the duty of removing from parking meters the coins deposited in such meters and to deliver such coins to the City Controller, who shall count them and deposit the same with the City Treasurer in the special fund designated in § 72.44.
(1) Any individual person so employed by the Board of Public Safety shall be paid by it at rates determined by the Board of Public Safety and approved by the Common Council, out of such special fund.
(2) The Board of Public Safety shall deputize such individual person as special police, whereupon such individual person shall have the power and authority to prepare, sign and deliver or post notices of violation of any parking limitations in any parking meter zone or parking meter space in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.
(3) Every such person shall furnish a bond in the penal sum of $5,000 conditioned upon his faithful performance of his duties hereunder, which bond shall run in favor of the city.
(Ord. G-17-17, passed 6-27-17; Am. Ord. G-4-18, passed 3-13-18)