(a) Parking meters.
(1) The County Executive by executive order may authorize the installation, maintenance and operation of parking meters along, and limiting the time motor vehicles may park on, any street or road located in the County and on public parking facilities acquired by or leased to and operated by the County, by use of parking meters or otherwise.
(2) The Council by resolution adopted under Section 2-57A must prescribe parking meter or other fees for parking at parking facilities and on streets and roads.
(3) After the adoption of such regulations, the county may purchase, install, maintain and operate any such parking meters on all streets, highways, alleys and public parking facilities in accordance with the executive order issued under paragraph (1) of this subsection; provided that the location thereof is approved by the county executive.
(b) Enforcement. The department of police or other authorized persons designated by the county executive, or his designee, shall enforce such regulations regarding parking and parking meters.
(c) Use of fees. All parking meter and other fees or fines shall be applied first to the expense of installing, maintaining, operating and enforcing such parking meters and then to the general fund of the county unless said parking meters are within a parking lot district as provided by chapter 60 of this Code, in which case said revenues shall be applied to said district. (1978 L.M.C., ch. 7, § 2; 1984 L.M.C., ch. 24, § 36; 2004 L.M.C., ch. 16, § 1; 2006 L.M.C., ch. 33, § 1.)
Editor’s note—2004 L.M.C., ch. 16, § 2, states in part: Any fee, charge, or fare in effect when this Act takes effect [July 22, 2004] must remain in effect until amended by Council resolution as provided in Section 2-57, as amended by Section 1 of this Act.