353.06 METER AREA REGULATIONS.

   No person shall park a vehicle or permit a vehicle registered in his name to be parked, in any space adjacent to a parking meter except in compliance with the following provisions:

   (a)    When any vehicle is parked in any space adjacent to which a parking meter is located in parking meter Zone A, the operator of the vehicle shall, upon entering the parking space, immediately deposit or cause to be deposited an appropriate coin, or combination of such coins of the United States in such parking meter and failure to make such deposit shall constitute a violation of this section. Upon deposit of the appropriate coin or coins of the United States totaling ten cents in a thirty-minute meter in parking meter Zone A, such parking space may be lawfully occupied by such vehicle for a period not exceeding thirty minutes. Upon deposit of the appropriate coin or coins of the United States totaling twenty-five cents in a two hour meter in parking meter Zone A, such parking space may be lawfully occupied by such vehicle for a period not exceeding two hours.

      (Ord. 81-82. Passed 3-17-81.)

   (b)    If the vehicle shall remain parked in any such parking space beyond the specified time period, the parking meter shall, by its dial and pointer, indicate such illegal parking and in that event such vehicle shall be considered as parked overtime and beyond the period of legalparking time, and the parking of a vehicle overtime or beyond the period of legal parking time for the coin deposited in any such part of the zone where any such meter is located shall be a violation of this section and punished as hereinafter set out. Each and every hour or fraction thereof of illegal or overtime parking prohibited by this subsection shall constitute a separate violation of this section.

   (c)    No person shall park a vehicle or permit a vehicle registered in his name to be parked in any space adjacent to a parking meter while such meter is displaying a signal indicating that the vehicle occupying such parking space has already been parked beyond the period of time prescribed as legal parking time.

   (d)    It shall be considered prima-facie evidence that the owner of any vehicle illegally parked was the operator of such vehicle at the time of such illegal parking.

(1969 Code §20.308)

   (e)    No person parking a vehicle within a parking meter space in parking meter Zone A shall allow such vehicle to remain in such space for a period of time longer than that specified in the following schedule whether or not an additional coin or coins are inserted in the meter by the operator of such vehicle or by any other person:

      (1)    More than fifteen minutes if a fifteen minute meter space, or

      (2)    More than thirty minutes if a thirty minute meter space, or

      (3)    More than one hour if a one hour meter space, or

      (4)    More than two hours if a two hour meter space.

         (Ord. 86-181. Passed 8-5-86.)