SEC. 89.35.2. PARKING METER RATES.

   (Added by Ord. No. 151,110, Eff. 7/30/78.)

   The hourly rates and payment schedule for each parking meter space shall be determined from time to time by the Board.

SEC. 89.35.3. OPERATIONS OF PARKING METERS.

   (Title and Section Amended by Ord. No. 180,092, Eff. 9/7/08.)

   Every parking meter shall be set to display, upon payment for a parking meter space, the period of time for which said payment has been made, and said parking meter shall continue to display, upon the entry of the parking meter space number, if applicable, the remaining paid time for said parking meter space from the time of payment until the expiration of the paid time or until a vehicle vacates said parking meter space, whichever is sooner.

   Every 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 parking meter space number, if applicable, it will indicate by a visible display that the lawful parking time has expired.

   Every parking meter shall indicate the legal parking time which has been or may be established for that area, location or zone of the street upon which said parking meter is installed.

SEC. 89.35.4. PARKING METERS – PAYMENT.

   (Title and Section Amended by Ord. No. 180,092, Eff. 9/7/08.)

   When the operator of a vehicle parks such vehicle in a parking meter space, the operator shall immediately make or cause to be made a lawful payment in the parking meter adjacent thereto, or if none, in an applicable parking meter in the vicinity after entering the assigned parking meter space number, at the rates established by the Board and in accordance with the payment scheduled adopted by the Board for said parking meter space, as indicated by appropriate signs on the parking meter itself.

SEC. 89.35.5. 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 without immediately making or causing to be made a lawful payment at an applicable parking meter as provided in Section 89.35.4.

   (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.

   (c)   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 such vehicle beyond the legal parking time which has been established by the General Manager for the parking meter space.

SEC. 89.35.6. 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 meters, or to place any foreign matter or substance in said parking meter or any part thereof.

SEC. 89.36. STOPPING AT RED CURB.

   No person shall stop any vehicle at any time adjacent to a curb marked in red.

SEC. 89.37. PARKING AT GREEN CURB.

   No person shall park any vehicle adjacent to any curb marked in green for any period in excess of the time indicated, and in no case in excess of 15 minutes.