(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)