(A) Except in any period of emergency determined by an officer of the fire or police department of this city, or in compliance with the direction of a police officer or a traffic control sign or signal of this city or of the state, when any vehicle shall be parked in any parking meter space, the driver of such vehicle shall, upon entering such parking meter space, immediately deposit or cause to be deposited in the parking meter adjacent thereto such proper coin of the United States of America as is required for such parking meter as designated by direction thereon, and by regulation of the Board of Public Safety approved by resolution of the Common Council, and also shall set in operation the timing mechanism on such meter in accordance with the directions thereon.
(B) Upon the deposit of such coin and the setting of the timing mechanism in operation, such parking meter space may be lawfully occupied by such vehicle during the period of time prescribed therefor; provided, that any person placing a vehicle in a parking meter space adjacent to a meter which indicates that unused time has been left in such meter by the previous occupant of such space shall not be required to deposit a coin so long as his occupancy of such space does not exceed the unused time indicated on such meter.
(Ord. G-17-17, passed 6-27-17; Am. Ord. G-4-18, passed 3-13-18) Penalty, see § 72.99