When any vehicle is parked in any parking meter space, the operator of the vehicle shall, immediately after entering the parking meter space, deposit or cause to be deposited in the meter or machine controlling the space the proper coin or currency of the United States, or city prepaid parking card as is required by Section 10.40.060 for the parking meter space. The operator of vehicle, after the proper deposit, shall also set in operation the timing mechanism on the meter or machine, if any, in accordance with directions properly appearing thereon. In addition, if the parking meter space is controlled by a pay-and-display machine, the operator of the vehicle shall immediately cause the parking receipt provided by the machine to be placed face up on the driver's side dashboard of the vehicle. Failure to make a proper deposit and to set the timing mechanism in operation, and (if applicable) failure to place the receipt on the vehicle dashboard as prescribed, shall constitute a violation of this title.
Upon the proper deposit of such coin and the setting of the timing mechanism in operation and, if applicable, the placement of the parking receipt on the vehicle dashboard, the parking meter space may be lawfully occupied by the vehicle during the period of time which has been prescribed for the part of the street in which the parking meter space is located; provided, that any person placing a vehicle in a parking meter space adjacent to a meter or controlled by a machine which indicates that unused time has been left by the previous occupant of the space shall not be required to deposit a coin so long as the occupancy of the space does not exceed the indicated unused parking time. When an oversize vehicle occupies more than one space, a proper deposit shall be made for each of the spaces. (Ord. 2000-028 § 2(c)(vii); Ord. 2000-007 § 8; prior code § 25.08.137)