(a) No person shall park a vehicle in any parking space at a parking meter during any period of time parking is limited and permitted:
(1) Unless a coin or coins of United States currency of the appropriate denomination have been deposited in such meter, or have been previously deposited therein for an unexpired interval of time, and such meter has been placed in operation;
(2) Unless, where a vehicle is permitted to occupy two adjoining parking spaces, a coin or coins have been deposited in the parking meter for each such space so occupied;
(3) Whenever the parking meter for such parking space indicates by signal that the lawful parking time in such space has expired, except as is necessary to park such vehicle to deposit immediately thereafter a coin or coins in such meter;
(4) For a consecutive period of time longer than that limited period of time for which parking is permitted, irrespective of the number or amounts of the coins deposited in such meter.
(b) Notice of the period of time that parking is lawfully permitted at any parking meter and instructions for operating such parking meter may be placed upon the parking meter or its stand or posted in the immediate vicinity thereof.
(c) No person shall deposit or attempt to deposit in any parking meter any slug, button or other device or substance as substitutes for coins of United States currency.
(d) No person shall deface, injure, tamper with, open without authority or willfully break, destroy or impair the usefulness of any parking meter.
(e) All coins deposited in parking meters shall be collected by the duly authorized agents of the Commissioner of the Treasury and delivered to the Commissioner. The Commissioner shall count the coins so delivered and deposit same to the credit of the City of Toledo.
(Ord. 711-81. Passed 11-24-81.)