CROSS REFERENCES
Parking meter defined, CO 401.33
General parking regulations, CO Ch 451
Registered owner prima-facie liable for unlawful parking, CO 451.02
Municipal parking facilities, CO Ch 455
(a) No person shall park a vehicle in a space adjacent to a street parking meter unless the curb side wheels of such a vehicle are parallel with and not more than twelve inches from the curb. The front and rear extremities of the vehicle shall be between adjacent meter posts or not more than three feet from the post of an end meter. Whenever a vehicle is parked in a street parking meter zone where a meter has been installed, the person parking such vehicle shall deposit in such parking meter a coin of United States money of the denomination designated on the plates attached to such parking meter, if such meter displays the signal showing that legal parking is only permitted on such deposit.
(b) The coins required in parking meter zones shall be as follows:
(1) In the Downtown Parking Area, as defined in Section 403.04, but excluding Institutional Areas, as defined herein, $.25 per twenty (20)-minute period.
(2) In Institutional Areas, $.50 per hour or any portion thereof. For purposes of this section, an “Institutional Area” means the area adjacent to any hospital or educational institution in the City.
(3) In all other areas of the City, $.25 per hour or any portion thereof.
(c) Notice to the public shall be given by appropriate signs, setting forth the length of time for which parking is permitted and the conditions thereof. These may be upon the parking meter stand or in the immediate vicinity. Any vehicle which remains in a metered parking zone after the prescribed time for parking is hereby determined to be illegally parked. At each place where street metered parking zones are so established as provided in Section 403.06 and are so marked off, each vehicle shall be parked entirely within a metered parking zone space. The provisions of this section shall not apply to vehicles parking upon the street of the City between the hours of 6:00 p.m. In the evening until 7:00 a.m. the following morning and upon Saturdays, Sundays, New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day, unless a different rule or regulation is otherwise set forth in this Traffic Code, and shall not apply to any parking meter space in the downtown parking area, as defined in Section 403.04, on the day after Thanksgiving (“Black Friday”) and December 26th.
(Ord. No. 2255-05. Passed 12-8-08, eff. 12-9-08)
(a) No person shall park, cause, allow or permit to be parked any vehicle owned or operated by such person in any parking meter space, without depositing the coin designated in the preceding section in the slot provided in such parking meter, and if a hand operated parking meter is installed, without turning the lever on the parking meter as far as it will go.
(b) No person shall cause, allow or permit any vehicle registered in his name to be parked overtime or beyond a lawful period of time prescribed by or in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.
(c) No person shall deposit or cause to be deposited in a parking meter any coin for the purpose of increasing or extending the parking time of any vehicle beyond legal parking time established by this chapter.
(d) No person shall cause, allow or permit any vehicle owned or operated by such person to be parked across any line designating a metered parking zone space.
Any vehicle parked in contravention of these provisions shall be deemed to be illegally parked under the provisions of this chapter. The fact that a vehicle is in a metered parking zone space when the time signal on the parking meter for the same shows no parking permitted, unless a deposit of a coin is made, as provided in this chapter, shall be deemed prima-facie evidence of the unlawful parking of such vehicle by its owner.
(Ord. No. 1684-76. Passed 6-29-76, eff. 7-6-76)
The City Treasurer shall have charge of the collection of the coins deposited in street parking meters.
(Ord. No. 1684-76. Passed 6-29-76, eff. 7-6-76)
The coins required to be deposited under the provisions of Section 453.01 are hereby levied as a regulation and inspection fee to cover the cost of inspection, installation, operation, control and use of street metered parking zones and parking meters.
(Ord. No. 1495-87. Passed 11-23-87, eff. 11-25-87)