Parking meters installed in the parking meter zone established herein in § 70.191 shall be placed upon the curb immediately adjacent to the individual parking places herein described. Each parking meter shall be placed or set in such manner as to show or display by a signal that the parking space adjacent to the meter is, or is not, legally in use. Each parking meter installed shall indicate by a property legend the legal parking time established by the city, and when operated shall indicate on or by its dial and pointer the duration of the time of legal parking and on expiration of the period shall indicate illegal or over parking. When the lawful parking period has expired the right of the operator to occupy the space with his or her vehicle shall cease, and the operator, owner, possessor, or manager thereof shall be subject to the penalties hereinafter provided.
(1975 Code, § 23-202)