It shall be unlawful and a violation of the provisions of this article for any person:
(a) To cause, allow, permit or suffer any vehicle registered in the name of, or operated by such person to be parked overtime, or beyond the period of legal parking time established for any parking meter zone as herein described, or to deposit in any parking meter any coin for the purpose of parking beyond the maximum legal parking time for the particular parking meter zone.
(b) To permit any vehicle to remain or be placed in any parking space adjacent to any parking meter while said meter is displaying a signal indicating that the vehicle occupying such parking space has already been parked beyond the period prescribed for such parking space.
(c) To park any vehicle across any line or marking of a parking meter space or in such position that the vehicle shall not be entirely within the area designated by such lines or markings.
(d) To deface, injure, tamper with, open or willfully break, destroy, or impair the usefulness of any parking meter installed under the provisions of this article.
(e) To deposit or cause to be deposited in any parking meter any slugs, device or metal substance, or other substitute for lawful coins.
(f) Enforcement. It shall be the duty of the Police Department to enforce the provisions of this article.
(g) Collection. It shall be the duty of the Chief of Police to designate some member of the Police Department to make regular collections of the money deposited in said meters and it shall be the duty of such persons so designated to remove from the parking meters the containers therein containing the coins so deposited in said meters and to deliver such containers, to the City Clerk of the City of Keyser, who shall deposit such funds with the City Treasurer.
(h) Use of Funds. The coins deposited in parking meters are required and shall be used to defray the expense of proper regulation of traffic upon the public streets of the City of Keyser; to provide for the cost of supervision, regulation and control of the parking of vehicles in parking meter zones, and to cover the cost of purchase, supervision, protection, inspection, installation, operation, maintenance, control and use of parking meters. (Ord. 221. Passed 6-4-86.)