Alameda Municipal Code § 12-13 Parking Meters

a. Parking meters, when installed, shall be so adjusted to show legal parking upon and after the deposit of only legal coins 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 which are legally accepted as a valid form of cash payment in the United States of America.

Maps detailing the location, time limits and hours of operation for all meters within the City shall be established and maintained by the Public Works Department.

(Ord. No. 2644 N.S. § 2; Ord. No. 1202 N.S.; Ord. No. 2974 N.S. § 4)

(Ord. No. 3280 N.S., § 6, 5-20-2020)

a. The Public Works Director shall cause lines or markings to be painted designating the parking space or spaces for which the meter is to be used, and each vehicle parked or within a parking space shall park within said lines or markings. It is unlawful to park any vehicle across any such line or marking, and to park a vehicle in such a position that it shall not be entirely within the space designated by such lines or markings. The Public Works Director shall establish hours of operation, and maximum time limits, and shall cause signage to be placed-display on each meter which shall indicate days and hours of operation, maximum time limits, and any exception. Such information on parking meters shall constitute the parking meter zone signs referred to in subsection 12-16.4.

b. Signs. The Public Works Director shall cause an appropriate sign to be affixed to or located on each parking meter or on the parking meter screen display within a parking meter zone indicating the hours of operation of such meter and the maximum parking time permitted in the zone. Such information on parking meters shall constitute the parking meter zone signs referred to in subsection 12-16.4 of this Code.

(Ord. No. 903 N.S.; Ord. No. 1580; Ord. No. 2537 § 50 [17-365]; Ord. No. 2664 § 2; Ord. No. 2974 N.S. § 4)

(Ord. No. 3280 N.S., § 7, 5-20-2020)

a. The Parking Fund is hereby established. Money collected by the City or its contractors from parking meter, parking permit, or off-street parking lot charges as herein set forth shall be placed in the Parking Fund and shall be used primarily to regulate the use of parking spaces or off-street parking lots; to provide parking facilities and areas, together with maintenance and service thereon; to repay principal and interest on bonds issued for such purposes; and to reimburse the City's General Fund, Internal Service Funds and Capital Improvement Funds for any payment made therefrom, during the same fiscal year, for such purposes.

b. Additional monies beyond what is required to sustain the parking operation, as described in subsection 12-13.4.a, may be used for the following purposes:

1. For the installation and maintenance of alternative mode programs such as shuttle or bus routes, bike parking racks or storage, pedestrian linkages and walkability improvements, sidewalk cleaning, and street furniture.

2. For the painting and marking of curbs required for the regulation of loading and parking of vehicles.

3. Revenues from preferential parking permits may, in addition to the foregoing, be used for sidewalk, landscaping and other transportation, pedestrian or bicycle enhancements on streets where preferential permit parking is provided.

(Ord. No. 2006 N.S.; Ord. No. 2974 N.S. § 4)

(Ord. No. 3280 N.S., § 8, 5-20-2020)

It shall be unlawful to deposit or cause to be deposited in any parking meter any defaced or bent coin, or any slug, device or metallic substance for a coin of the United States, or for any person to deface, injure, tamper with, open or willfully break, destroy or impair the usefulness of any parking meter.

(Ord. No. 1202 N.S.; Ord. No. 2452 N.S. § 1)

It shall be unlawful for any person to deface, injure, tamper with, open or willfully break, destroy or impair the usefulness of any parking meter installed pursuant to this article.

(Ord. No. 903)

It shall be unlawful for the operator of any vehicle to permit the vehicle to remain parked in any parking space during any time that the meter is showing a signal or other means of indication indicating that such space is illegally in use other than such time immediately after the original occupancy as is necessary to operate the meter to show legal parking.

(Ord. No. 1202 N.S.; Ord. No. 2452 N.S. § 1; Ord. No. 2974 N.S. § 4)

When a parking space in any public off-street parking lot is designed as parallel parking space, any vehicle parked or standing in such parking space shall be parked or shall stand so that the foremost part of the vehicle shall be within the marked parking space.

(Ord. No. 903 N.S.; Ord. No. 2423 N.S. § 2; Ord. No. 2537 § 1; Ord. No. 2974 N.S. § 4)

It shall be unlawful for any person, other than the owner or operator of a vehicle, to deposit any coin in any parking meter without the knowledge or consent of the owner or operator of the vehicle using the parking space.

(Ord. No. 1202 N.S.)

It shall be unlawful for any person to attach anything to or allow a bicycle, newsrack or any other article or thing to lean against a parking meter or a parking meter standard.

(Ord. No. 1202 N.S.)