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SEC. 80.00. DEFINITIONS.
DIVISION “A” OBEDIENCE TO TRAFFIC REGULATIONS
DIVISION “B” TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES
DIVISION “C” TURNING MOVEMENTS
DIVISION “D” ONE WAY STREETS AND ALLEYS
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DIVISION “N” PARKING PROHIBITED OR LIMITED
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DIVISION “P” SCHEDULES OF DESIGNATED STREETS REFERRED TO IN CHAPTER
DIVISION “Q” MISCELLANEOUS
DIVISION “R” TRAFFIC REGULATION IN PARKS
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DIVISION “T” OPERATION OF UNUSUAL TYPES OF VEHICLES CREATING TRAFFIC PROBLEMS
DIVISION “U” PARKING ON PUBLIC STREETS AND PARKING ON PUBLICLY OWNED OFF-STREET PARKING FACILITIES
A. PARKING ON PUBLIC STREETS
B. PARKING ON PUBLICLY OWNED OFF-STREET PARKING FACILITIES
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SEC. 88.08.1. COLLECTION OF PERSONAL PARKING METER REVENUE.
   (Added by Ord. No. 170,019, Eff. 10/21/94.)
 
   Personal parking meters shall operate with stored prepaid time. This time shall be sold by the Department at the rate of one dollar per hour in increments of 20 hours. The meter shall cease to function and shall display the word “EXPIRED” when all prepaid time has been expended. The Department shall establish the mechanism for selling meter time for personal parking meters and shall deliver the revenue derived from such sale to the City Treasury to be deposited in the Special Parking Revenue Fund.
 
 
SEC. 88.10. PARKING METERS AND PARKING METER STANDARDS NOT TO BE USED FOR CERTAIN PURPOSES.
 
   It shall be unlawful for any person to attach anything or to allow a bicycle, newsrack or any other article or thing to lean against a parking meter or a parking meter standard.
 
   (a)   Exemption. (Added by Ord. No. 183,951, Eff. 12/14/15.) Bicycles secured to a Los Angeles Department of Transportation approved bicycle parking device on a parking meter stand shall be exempt from the provisions of this section.
 
 
SEC. 88.11. IMPROPER USE OR MISUSE OF PARKING METERS.
   (Title and Section Amended by Ord. No. 180,092, Eff. 9/7/08.)
 
   It shall be unlawful to deposit or cause to be deposited in any parking meter any defaced or bent coin, or any slug, device, metallic or other substitute for any money of the United States of America, or for any person to deface, injure, tamper with, open or willfully break, destroy or impair the usefulness of any parking meter, or to place any foreign matter or substance in said parking meter or any part thereof.
 
 
SEC. 88.12. EXTENDING PARKING TIME FOR A PARKING METER SPACE.
   (Title and Section Amended by Ord. No. 180,092, Eff. 9/7/08.)
 
   It shall be unlawful for any person to make or cause to be made a payment in a parking meter for the purpose of increasing or extending the parking time of any vehicle beyond the legal parking time which has been established by the Department for the parking meter space.
 
 
SEC. 88.13. FAILURE TO PAY FOR A PARKING METER SPACE.
   (Title and Section Amended by Ord. No. 180,092, Eff. 9/7/08.)
 
   (a)   It shall be unlawful for any person to park, or to cause, allow, permit or suffer to be parked, a vehicle in any parking meter space, except as provided by Sections 88.01.1, 88.03.1 and 88.06.1, without immediately making or causing to be made a lawful payment at an applicable parking meter as provided in Section 88.07.
 
   (b)   It shall be unlawful for any person to cause, allow, permit or suffer any vehicle to remain in any parking meter space for more than the time indicated by posted signs or on an applicable parking meter indicating the maximum parking time allowed in such parking meter space, or during any time the applicable parking meter is indicating that the time has elapsed for which lawful payment has been made for said parking meter space; provided, however, that the provisions of this Section shall not apply to any vehicle described in Section 80.05, vehicles owned by the City of Los Angeles, or vehicles operated pursuant to Sections 88.01.1, 88.03.1 and 88.06.1.
 
 
SEC. 88.13.1. FAILURE TO ACTIVATE PERSONAL PARKING METER.
   (Added by Ord. No. 170,019, Eff. 10/21/94.)
 
   (a)   It shall be unlawful for any person to park, or to cause, allow, permit or suffer to be parked, a commercial vehicle in any commercial loading zone, time limit zone or no parking zone for a period exceeding 30 minutes unless such person activates and displays within the vehicle a personal parking meter, approved by the Department, that indicates the hours and minutes parked at a location and is calibrated to assess the rates established in Section 88.00.1.
 
   (b)   It shall be unlawful for any person to cause, allow, permit or suffer any vehicle to remain in any commercial loading zone, time limit zone or no parking zone after the person’s personal parking meter has expired and in no event beyond the posted time limit in a time limit zone.
 
   (c)   It shall be unlawful for any person to alter or manipulate in any way a personal parking meter, approved for use in the City of Los Angeles, for the purposes of reducing the actual charged time or extending the parking time beyond the four-hour maximum limit for the space occupied.
 
 
 
B. PARKING ON PUBLICLY OWNED OFF-STREET PARKING FACILITIES
 
 
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