(a) In order that the time during which a vehicle is parked in a parking meter space, may be properly and conveniently computed, the owner or operator of a vehicle entering such parking meter space during the time of limited parking shall immediately deposit a twenty-five-cent ($0.25) coin of the United States in the parking meter adjacent to such parking meter space or cause a digital payment, and failure to do so shall be unlawful. The parking fee rate for metered spaces shall be twenty-five ($0.25) per sixty (60) minutes or any fraction thereof.
(b) Upon the deposit of such coin or digital payment, in such parking meter and the operation of the lever of such parking meter, the parking meter space in question may be lawfully occupied by such vehicle during a period of time designated on the meter. If such vehicle shall remain parked in any such parking meter space beyond the time limit fixed for the deposit of the coin or digital payment so deposited, such vehicle shall, except as otherwise provided in this article, be considered as parked overtime, and any such parking of a vehicle overtime in any such part of the streets where any such meter is located shall be unlawful.
(c) Each hour that any vehicle remains parked in violation of the provisions of this article shall constitute a separate offense hereunder, and an additional notice shall be attached to such vehicle for each hour the vehicle remains so parked, and each owner or operator shall pay in accordance with the provisions of this section on each individual notice so attached. The failure of the owner or operator to make such payment or payments on each of the notices within the time specified on each shall render such owner or operator subject to the penalties provided for a violation of the provisions of this article for each separate notice so issued.
(Ord. 2021-08. Passed 7-21-21.)