(a) The city manager or designee is authorized to set aside any portion or all of any city-owned parking lot for permit parking and to issue permits therefor as provided in this section.
(b) The city manager or designee may issue parking permits upon application therefor and upon the payment of a fee in an amount to be determined by the city manager or municipal fee schedule. Such permit shall designate the parking lot for which it is issued and shall be displayed as directed by the city. Such permit may contain such instructions as to its use as may be deemed appropriate by the city manager. The city manager or designee may issue virtual parking permits instead of, or in combination with, physical parking permits.
(c) The city manager or designee shall install signs in the permit parking areas indicating that they are reserved for permit parking only, and the holder of such a permit properly displayed may park in any such space on the lot, but only in such space.
(d) A vehicle with a permit shall not park for more than seventy-two consecutive hours in the same city-owned public parking facility. This subsection shall not apply to official city vehicles.
(e) No person who owns or has possession, custody or control of a vehicle shall park that vehicle or allow it to be parked in any permit parking space in a permit area where sign indicating that such space is reserved for permit parking only without displaying a valid permit therefor. This prohibition shall only apply to the use of such spaces during the period as indicated on the posted signage.
(Ord. 5531 § 11, 2021: Ord. 4558 § 6 (part), 1999: Ord. 4325 § 1 (part), 1996: Ord. 4159 § 2 (part), 1993)