(A) Except in a period of emergency determined by an officer of the Fire or Police Department, or in compliance with the directions of a police officer, when any vehicle shall be parked in any parking space alongside or next to which a parking meter is located, the operator of such vehicle shall, upon entering the said parking meter space, immediately deposit or cause to be deposited in said meter such proper coin of the United States as is required for such parking meter and as is designated by proper directions on the meter, and failure to deposit such coin shall constitute a violation of this subchapter. Upon deposit of such coin the parking meter space may be lawfully occupied by such vehicle during the period of time which has been prescribed for the zone in which said parking space is located; 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 the meter by the previous occupant of the space, shall not be required to deposit a coin so long as his occupancy of said space does not exceed the indicated unused parking time. If said vehicle shall remain parked in any such parking space beyond the parking time limit set for such parking space, and if the meter shall indicate by its dial and pointer that such time has elapsed and that such parking is illegal, then and in that event such vehicle shall be considered as parking overtime and beyond the period of legal parking time, and such parking shall be deemed a violation of this subchapter.
('68 Code, § 5-302)
(B) Parking vehicle in designated space in a parking meter zone shall be lawful for a period of time specified for that zone, as shown by a sign on the meter or by one or more signs posted along the street in sufficient number and of sufficient size to apprise the ordinarily observant person of the existence of the limited period within which lawful parking can be had along and upon such street. Parking of a vehicle in any parking meter space for a period longer than that allowed by such sign shall be deemed to be illegal and a violation of this subchapter; provided, however, that lawful parking may be had in said space during any hours when the parking meter regulations are not in effect, and on Sundays and holidays; provided, further, holidays as herein used shall be deemed to mean and include only the following days: January 1, May 30, the Fourth of July, the first Monday in September, December 25, and the day designated and set aside by the President of the United States as a day of Thanksgiving.
('68 Code, § 5-303) (Ord. 111, passed 4-15-68) Penalty, see § 72.99