(A) Installation and use. To control motor vehicle parking upon certain streets and public parking lots, mechanical devices commonly known as parking meters shall be installed on or near the curb or parking space and at such locations as the Council may designate.
(B) Parking spaces. Lines or markings painted upon the curb or street or public parking lot adjacent to each parking meter shall indicate the parking space and it is unlawful to park any vehicle unless the same shall be wholly contained within a single parking space.
(C) Days and hours of metered parking. It is unlawful for any person to cause, allow, permit or suffer any vehicle registered in his or her name or operated or controlled by him or her to be upon any street within a metered parking space at any time during which the meter is showing a signal indicating that the space is illegally in use between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. on any Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Saturday, and between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m. on any Friday, excepting therefrom such days as are legal holidays designated by state statutes.
(D) Charges. Parking meter charges may vary with location of on-street or public parking lot upon or along which metered parking has been established. Charges shall be prescribed by resolution of the Council at the time of establishment of metered parking within a specified area or upon a specified street. Changes in the charges shall be made by resolution of the Council. Parking meter charges and coin denominations shall be clearly stated upon each meter including the time covered by each denomination. Also, time limitations for parking in any metered space shall be clearly set forth upon each meter.
(E) Slugs. It is unlawful to deposit or cause to be deposited in any parking meter any slug, device or metallic substitute for legal coins.
(F) Damaging meters. It is unlawful for any person to tamper with, open, willfully break, damage, deface, destroy or otherwise interfere with any parking meter.
(G) Additional unlawful act. All coins shall be inserted at the time of initial parking. It is unlawful, after a portion of the metered time has expired, to insert additional coins.