CHAPTER 353
Parking Meters
353.01   Definitions.
353.02   Parking within marked lines of meter spaces.
353.03   Meter installation and control.
353.04   Deposit of coin required.
353.05   Maximum period of parking time.
353.06   Time of meter operation.
353.07   Unlawful parking.
353.08   Violation by registered owner of vehicle.
353.09   Violation by operator of vehicle.
353.10   Duty of police officer issuing citation.
353.11   Collection of coins from parking meters.
353.12   Application of fund.
353.13   Street meter zones and fees.
353.14   Off-street meter zones and fees.
353.15   Lot monthly parking rates.
353.16   Notice and waiver.
353.99   Penalty.
 
CROSS REFERENCES
Off-street parking facilities - see Ohio R.C. 717.05 et seq.
Registered owner prima-facie liable for unlawful parking - see TRAF. 351.02
 
353.01 DEFINITIONS.
   As used in this chapter, certain terms are defined as follows:
   (a)   “Vehicle” means any device in, upon or by which any person or property is or may be transported upon a public street or highway, except such as are used exclusively by human power.
   (b)   “Parking” means the standing of a vehicle, except a Police or Fire Department vehicle or ambulance, whether occupied or not, upon a street or highway otherwise than in obedience to traffic regulations or traffic signs or signals.
   (c)   “Parking meter” means a device which indicates thereon the length of time during which a vehicle may be parked in a particular place, which has as a part thereof a receptacle or chamber for receiving and storing coins of United States money, a slot or place in which such coin may be deposited, a timing mechanism to indicate the passage of the interval of time during which parking is permissible and which also displays an appropriate signal when the aforesaid interval of time has elapsed and brief instructions as to its operations.
   (d)   “Individual parking space” means a portion of the paved surface of the street of sufficient length and width from the sidewalk curb to accommodate a vehicle to be parked, as shall be specified and marked off by the Chief of Police or an officer designated in charge of traffic control.
      (Ord. 6569. Passed 4-7-52.)
   (e)   “On-street parking zones” means those areas on streets of the City established and designated as parking meter areas.
   (f)   “Off-street parking zones” means those areas which are not on streets of the City but are established and designated as parking meter areas, and may be referred to as City parking lot.
353.02 PARKING WITHIN MARKED LINES OF METER SPACES.
   The Chief of Police or Traffic Commissioner is authorized and directed to designate and mark off such individual parking spaces as they deem proper along the streets in the on- and off- street parking areas for the parking of vehicles. At each place where the individual parking spaces are so marked off each vehicle shall be parked entirely within an individual parking space.
(Ord. 6569. Passed 4-7-52.)
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