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SEC. 80.00. DEFINITIONS.
DIVISION “A” OBEDIENCE TO TRAFFIC REGULATIONS
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DIVISION “D” ONE WAY STREETS AND ALLEYS
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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
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SEC. 88.54. TIME OF PARKING IN OFF-STREET PARKING METER ZONES.
 
   The maximum legal parking time for each publicly owned off-street parking facility in Section 88.50 hereof shall be as determined from time to time by the Board of Transportation Commissioners. Said determination shall be based upon good traffic engineering principles, traffic investigation and surveys made from time to time. (Amended by Ord. No. 151,833, Eff. 2/10/79, Oper. 2/25/79.)
 
 
SEC. 88.55. OFF-STREET PARKING METERS – TIMES FOR OPERATION.
   (Amended by Ord. No. 180,092, Eff. 9/7/08.)
 
   Provisions of this division which require payment of off-street parking meters shall apply at such times and hours as may be determined from time to time by the Board of Transportation Commissioners, based upon engineering and traffic investigation. Such times and hours shall be indicated by signs or on the parking meters; provided, however, that the Board of Transportation Commissioners may, in its discretion from time to time, prohibit all parking in any publicly owned off-street parking facility during times of emergency by causing appropriate “No Parking” signs to be posted.
 
 
SEC. 88.56. OPERATION OF OFF-STREET PARKING METERS.
   (Amended by Ord. No. 180,092, Eff. 9/7/08.)
 
   Every off-street parking meter shall be set to display, upon payment for an off-street parking meter space, the period of time for which said payment has been made, and unless a printed receipt indicating the expiry time is made available at the time of payment, said off-street parking meter shall continue to display, upon the entry of the off- street parking meter space number, if applicable, the remaining paid time for said off-street parking meter space from the time of payment until the expiration of the paid time, or until a vehicle vacates said off-street parking meter space, whichever is sooner.
 
   Every off-street parking meter shall be so arranged that upon the expiration of the parking time for which said payment has been made, and upon the entry of the off-street parking meter space number, if applicable, it will indicate by a visible display that the lawful parking time has expired.
 
   Each off-street parking meter shall indicate the legal parking time which has been or may be established for that publicly owned off-street parking facility.
 
 
SEC. 88.57. OFF-STREET PARKING METERS – PAYMENT.
   (Amended by Ord. No. 181,852, Eff. 10/3/11, Oper. 1/1/12.)
 
   When the operator of a vehicle parks in an off-street parking meter space on a publicly owned off-street parking facility, the operator shall immediately make or cause to be made a lawful payment for the off-street parking meter adjacent thereto, or, if none, for an applicable parking meter in the vicinity after entering the assigned off-street parking meter space number, at the rates determined by the Board of Transportation Commissioners from time to time for said off-street parking meter space and as indicated by posted signs or on an applicable parking meter.
 
 
SEC. 88.58. COLLECTION OF CASH FROM OFF-STREET PARKING METERS.
   (Title and Section Amended by Ord. No. 180,092, Eff. 9/7/08.)
 
   The Department shall make or cause to be made regular collections of the money deposited in off-street parking meters by uniformed collectors and shall count or cause to be counted the money contained therein and deliver the same into the City Treasury to the credit of the Special Parking Revenue Fund.
 
 
SEC. 88.60. OFF-STREET PARKING METERS AND OFF-STREET PARKING METER STANDARDS NOT TO BE USED FOR CERTAIN PURPOSES.
 
   It shall be unlawful for any person to attach anything to or to allow anything to lean against an off-street parking meter or an off-street parking meter standard.
 
 
SEC. 88.61. IMPROPER USE OR MISUSE OF OFF-STREET PARKING METERS.
   (Amended by Ord. No. 180,092, Eff. 9/7/08.)
 
   It shall be unlawful to deposit or cause to be deposited in any off-street 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 off-street parking meter, or to place any foreign matter or substance in said off-street parking meter or any part thereof.
 
 
SEC. 88.62. EXTENDING PARKING TIME FOR AN OFF-STREET 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 an off-street 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 Board of Transportation Commissioners for the off-street parking meter space.
 
 
SEC. 88.63. FAILURE TO PAY FOR AN OFF-STREET 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 off-street parking meter space without immediately making or causing to be made a lawful payment at an applicable parking meter as provided in Section 88.57.
 
   (b)   It shall be unlawful for any person to cause, allow, permit or suffer any vehicle to remain in any off- street parking meter space for more than the time indicated by posted signs or indicated on an applicable off-street parking meter indicating the maximum parking time allowed in such off-street parking meter space, or during any time the applicable off-street parking meter is indicating that the time has elapsed for which lawful payment has been made for said off-street parking meter space; provided, however, that the provisions of this Section shall not apply to any vehicle described in Section 80.05.
 
 
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