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A. Coin Designation: Parking meters, when installed and properly operated, shall be adjusted so as to show legal parking in increments of twelve (12) minutes, with a minimum of twelve (12) minutes on the deposit of a United States five cent ($0.05) coin for each such increment. Payment shall be made of the aforesaid amounts for the said times for parking in areas established as parking meter zones by the city commission. The city manager may authorize the use of parking tokens officially designated by the city to be used in the city parking meters. Said tokens may be used in the city parking meters in lieu of United States coins.
B. Parking Time Limits: It shall be unlawful for any person to cause, allow, or permit any vehicle registered in his name or operated by him to be upon any street within any parking meter zone adjacent to which a parking meter is installed, at any time during which the parking meter is showing a signal indicating that proper coins have not been deposited in said parking meter, or the accrued time showing on said parking meter has expired, and a violation signal is indicated by said parking meter.
Parking meters shall be operated and enforced between the hours of eight o'clock (8:00) A.M. and five o'clock (5:00) P.M. of any day, except Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays. Such time as is necessary for a person to operate the meter to show legal parking is excluded.
C. Two Hour Parking Time Limit: No person shall cause, allow or permit any vehicle registered in his name to remain parked at a parking meter which has a designated maximum time limit of two (2) hours or less, to be parked over two (2) hours.
The director of the parking and traffic division shall cause to be placed in a visible location on each parking meter, with time limits of two (2) hours or less, a sign stating the two (2) hour parking restriction, and directing that vehicles be parked at these meters for no longer than two (2) hours. A vehicle shall be removed from such designated parking meter zones within two (2) hours; whether proper coins have been placed in the parking meter or the meter shows unused time does not affect this requirement.
D. Slugs: It shall be unlawful to deposit or cause to be deposited in any parking meter any slug, device or metallic substitute for a five cent ($0.05) coin, ten cent ($0.10) coin, or twenty five cent ($0.25) coin of the United States, except officially designated parking tokens.
E. Parking Meter Hood:
1. Upon application to the director of the parking and traffic division, a person may be issued a parking meter hood, which, when placed on a meter, reserves a parking space for his/her exclusive use, and exempts his/her vehicle from the two (2) hour time limit according to subsection C of this section.
2. Parking meter hoods shall be placed on and removed from parking meters by parking and traffic division employees only, and may not be relocated to any other parking meter by the applicant.
3. Parking meter hoods shall be used in conjunction with construction, moving and hauling of materials, and shall not be used for long term parking of vehicles which are not involved with one of the above.
4. The director of the parking and traffic division shall collect from each applicant three dollars ($3.00) per parking meter hood per day. (Ord. 2329, 1-16-1984)
F. Monthly Parking Permits: The city transportation services director shall issue to individuals permits and/or access control cards which, when placed in vehicles, or used in access control mechanisms, shall entitle the vehicles to be legally parked on a specified, city owned, on street parking area, established by, or hereafter established by the city commission. Such permits or cards shall be issued upon the payment of amounts, and for durations of time, as established from time to time by resolution of the city commission.
G. Permits And/Or Cards: Permits and/or cards which have been issued for a specific on street parking facility shall not entitle the holders thereof to park in any other city owned, on street or off street parking facility unless payment is made for parking in more than one such facility.
H. Location Of On Street Parking Permits: On street parking permits shall be displayed on the inside of the windshield of the displaying vehicle on the lower left hand side where they are clearly visible from the outside of the vehicle at all times.
I. Group/Long Term Discount:
1. Group Discount: Whenever an individual or business entity purchases ten (10) or more parking permits for a time period of one month or more, the transportation services director shall apply a five percent (5%) discount to the total cost of said permits.
2. Long Term Discounts: Whenever an individual or business entity purchases one or more monthly parking permits for a time period of one year or more, the transportation services director shall apply a five percent (5%) discount to the total cost of said permits. All permits purchased for one year or more shall be paid in advance prior to receiving said discount.
3. Entitlement: Under no circumstances shall an individual, partnership or corporation be entitled to both discounts announced in this section. (Ord. 2428, 2-23-1987)
It shall be unlawful for any unauthorized person to deface, injure, tamper with, or wilfully break, destroy, or impair the usefulness of any parking meter or any other parking device installed pursuant to the provisions of this chapter. (Ord. 2329, 1-16-1984)
It shall be the duty of the director of the parking and traffic division to designate a person to make regular collections of the money deposited in all parking meters, and to deliver the money to the city treasurer, who shall place it in a special fund to be known as the parking debt fund. After the parking debt has been paid, the money deposited in the parking debt fund shall, after the payment of the expenses set forth herein, and incident to the operation of meters, be deposited or transferred to the parking reserve and depreciation fund of the city. Such person making such collections shall be bonded in the sum of two thousand dollars ($2,000.00) to ensure the faithful performance of his or her duties. (Ord. 2329, 1-16-1984)
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