For the purposes of this chapter, the following definitions apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
Parking Meter. A device located in the vicinity of a parking space for the purposes of extending parking privileges to persons for a certain number of minutes or hours upon the payment of the required charge by a method allowed by the parking meter. The device shall record a certain number of minutes or hours determining the period of time for which parking privileges have been extended. The term parking meter includes a multi-space parking meter device located in the vicinity of the parking spaces it regulates.
Parking Meter Space. Any space that is:
(1) Within a parking meter zone;
(2) Regulated by a parking meter; and
(3) Duly designated by lines painted or otherwise durably marked on the curb or on the surface of the street or public parking area.
Parking Meter Zone. A street, portion of a street, or other public parking area established by ordinance as a zone in which the parking of vehicles or other uses authorized by law upon such street or other public parking area is regulated by parking meters.
(Sec. 15-2.15, R.O. 1978 (1983 Ed.)) (1990 Code, Ch. 15, Art. 2, § 15-2.16) (Am. Ords. 04-32, 16-2)