353.01 Definitions.
353.02 Parking within marked lines of meter space.
353.03 Deposit of coin required; illegal parking.
353.04 Parking prohibited in meter space.
353.05 Parking meter hours; overnight parking.
353.99 Penalty.
CROSS REFERENCES
Off-street parking facilities - see Ohio R.C. 717.05 et seq.
Registered owner prima-facie liable for unlawful parking - see TRAF. 351.02
The following words and phrases, when used in this chapter, shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them:
(a) "Parking meter" means a mechanical device installed for the regulation of parking by lawful authority. Each parking meter shall contain a slot for the deposit of lawful coin of the United States and a receptacle for receiving and storing such coin. Each parking meter shall display brief directions as to its operation and the value of lawful coin required to be deposited. Each parking meter shall contain a timing mechanism which shall indicate either a balance of legal parking time or overtime parking by an appropriate signal at the expiration of such lawful time.
(b) "Parking meter space" means a space within a parking meter area, which is designated for the parking of a single vehicle by marked lines on the curb or paved surface area adjacent to a parking meter. Posted notice on the meter or on signs shall indicate the maximum consecutive parking time limit during which a vehicle may be legally parked in a particular parking meter space and the days and hours when the requirement to deposit lawful coin shall apply.
No person shall cause, allow or permit a vehicle to occupy a parking meter space during the hours when the provisions applicable to such space are in effect, unless he shall deposit such lawful coin of the United States of appropriate denomination in the adjacent parking meter, as required by directions on the meter. Such person is not required to deposit coin in a meter which indicates a balance of unused legal parking time left by the previous occupant of the space, so long as his occupancy of the space does not exceed the indicated unused parking time. The parking meter space may be lawfully occupied by such vehicle during the balance of legal parking time shown on the meter provided such occupancy does not exceed the established maximum time limit.
No person shall fail to comply with directions displayed on the parking meter or fail to set the timing mechanism in operation when so required.
No person shall cause, allow or permit a vehicle to occupy a meter space beyond the maximum consecutive parking time limit lawfully prescribed, for the particular space occupied, by appropriate notice on the meter or on posted signs, irrespective of the number or amount of coin deposited in such meter.
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