Alameda Municipal Code Ch. XII Designated Parking

As used in this chapter:

Operator shall mean and include every individual who shall operate a vehicle as the owner thereof or as the agent, employee or permittee of the owner.

Parking meter shall mean any coin receptacle, instrument, device, indicator or machine which, upon the deposit therein of such coin or paper currency of the United States or other legal form of payment such as credit cards and debit cards and any software application that processes payments from a mobile phone that are legally accepted as a valid form of cash payment in the United States of America and as may be required by this title, shows, indicates, registers, displays or permits legal parking for one (1) or more spaces in the parking meter zone wherein or adjacent to which such coin receptacle, instrument, device, indicator or machine is situated. A parking meter as defined herein may or may not be a self-contained timing device; it may be manually adjusted, automatically or manually controlled, or otherwise operated either externally or internally, so as to show, indicate, register, display or permit legal parking upon the deposit of coin or paper currency of the United States of America or other legal form of payment such as credit cards and debit cards and any software application that processes payments from a mobile phone that are legally accepted as a valid form of cash payment in the United States of America and as required by this title.

Parking meter zones shall mean portions of streets or off-street parking lots described and established by the City Council pursuant to subsection 12-12.1.

Person shall mean and include any individual, firm, copartnership or corporation.

Street shall mean any public street, avenue, road, boulevard, highway or other public place located in the City and established for the use of vehicles.

Vehicle shall mean any device in, upon or by which any person or property is or may be transported upon a highway, except a device which is operated upon rails or tracks.

(Ord. No. 2974 N.S. § 1)

(Ord. No. 3280 N.S., § 1, 5-20-2020)