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When parking meters have been so installed, the regulation, control, operation, maintenance, replacement and removal of such parking meters shall be handled by the Lexington and Fayette County Parking Authority.
(Ord. No. 62-87, § 1, 4-16-87; Ord. No. 329-2005, § 6, 12-13-05)
Where parking spaces are indicated by painted lines upon the surface of streets and when parking meters are installed contiguous to and adjoining such respective parking spaces, no vehicle shall remain parked in such parking spaces longer than the maximum amount of time allowed for parking in such parking spaces, as indicated by appropriate markings or signs or as indicated by such parking meters. The provisions of this section shall apply during such hours and on such dates as established from time to time by the Lexington and Fayette County Parking Authority.
(Ord. No. 79-68, § 1, 4-11-68; Ord. No. 129-72, § 2, 6-22-72; Ord. No. 62-87, § 1, 4-16-87; Ord. No. 194-88, § 1, 8-25-88; Ord. No. 46-89, §§ 1, 2, 3-7-89; Ord. No. 226-89, § 1, 11-30-89; Ord. No. 33-90, § 1, 2-22-90; Ord. No. 329-2005, § 6, 12-13-05)
(a) The fee for parking vehicles in the spaces adjacent to parking meters shall be established by the Lexington and Fayette County Parking Authority from time to time. The person driving a vehicle shall upon occupying such parking space immediately render the proper method of payment to such parking meter, and the parking space may then be used by such vehicle for a period of time not exceeding the limit indicated by the parking meter. If the vehicle shall remain parked within such parking space for a period of time longer than for which payment is made or the parking meter displays a signal indicating illegal parking or violation, or the vehicle remains in such parking space for longer than the time limit indicated on the parking meter, such vehicle shall be considered as parking overtime; and either police officers of the urban county or parking control officers of the Lexington and Fayette County Parking Authority shall issue in writing a notice to answer to the charge of overtime parking.
(b) It shall be unlawful to deposit or cause to be deposited in any parking meter any defaced or bent coin, or any slug, device or metallic substitute for any coin of the United States, or to otherwise use any card or other device in a parking meter in lieu of a card or device lawful and appropriate to an alternative payment process at such parking meter.
(c) It shall be unlawful for any unauthorized person to deface, injure, tamper with, open or willfully break or destroy or impair the usefulness of any parking meter so installed.
(Ord. No. 34-83, § 1, 3-10-83; Ord. No. 194-88, § 2, 8-25-88; Ord. No. 46-89, § 2, 3-7-89; Ord. No. 226-89, § 2, 11-30-89; Ord. No. 33-90, § 2, 2-22-90; Ord. No. 329-2005, § 6, 12-13-05)
(a) It shall be the duty of employees designated by the Lexington and Fayette County Parking Authority, to make collections of the money deposited for the parking meters.
(b) It shall be the duty of such persons so designated to remove from the parking meters the coins deposited in such meters and to deliver such coins to the Lexington and Fayette County Parking Authority as soon as practicable thereafter. It shall be the duty of the Lexington and Fayette County Parking Authority to count the funds and deposit such funds in a separate account dedicated for such funds, keeping strict account thereof. Subject and subordinate to any existing collateral security pledge for bond issues of the Lexington Fayette Urban County Government or any of its agencies or instrumentalities, any and all such money deposited in such account shall be used exclusively by the Lexington and Fayette County Parking Authority for the following purposes:
(1) For the purpose of rental, acquisition, establishment, erection, maintenance and operation of all parking meters used by the Lexington and Fayette County Parking Authority.
(2) For the purpose of making the system effective.
(3) For the expense incurred by and through the Lexington and Fayette County Parking Authority in the regulation and limitation of vehicular parking.
(Ord. No. 62-87, § 1, 4-16-87; Ord. No. 329-2005, § 6, 12-13-05)
(a) Upon the authorization by the Lexington and Fayette County Parking Authority, bags shall be issued for the purpose of covering designated parking meters for specified periods during construction projects, lengthy loading and unloading by moving companies, and other planned activities which will of necessity require use of parking meter spaces in order to avoid impeding traffic flow on adjacent streets.
(b) Such bags shall be imprinted "Reserved Parking by Order of the Lexington and Fayette County Parking Authority - Tow Zone," and a fee to be established by the Lexington and Fayette County Parking Authority from time to time shall be paid per bag per day to the Lexington and Fayette County Parking Authority by the individual requesting the bags. The revenue from such fees shall be deposited and used in accordance with section 18-65.
(c) Notwithstanding the provisions of this section, the division of police shall be empowered to cover parking meters with red plastic bags or post signage labeled "No Parking by Order of LFUCG Police - Tow Zone" for impromptu or brief events such as parades, large funerals, emergencies and similar situations where the public safety and convenience require that the parking meter spaces be reserved.
(d) Any vehicle parked at a meter or other designated paid parking space, bagged or posted as restricted parking pursuant to subsections (a), (b) and (c) of this section may be immediately towed. Any vehicle parked at a meter or other designated paid parking space that is bagged or posted as restricted parking subsequent to the vehicle being parked at the meter or other designated paid parking space may be towed four (4) hours after the bagging of the meter or posting of a notice restricted parking.
(Ord. No. 62-87, § 2, 4-16-87; Ord. No. 329-2005, § 6, 12-13-05; Ord. No. 162-2010, §§ 1, 2, 9-23-10)
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