Clovis Municipal Code Art. 14 Parking Meters

The streets or portions of streets described in Section 4.5.1400 and followed by a letter are hereby defined and established as parking meter zones within which the parking of vehicles shall be controlled, regulated, and inspected with the aid of parking meters.

(§ 1, Ord. 390, eff. December 1, 1965)

The City Engineer shall cause parking meters to be installed and maintained in all parking meter zones.

Parking meters shall be installed upon the curb or sidewalk area immediately adjacent to each parking space. Each parking meter shall be placed in such manner as to show or display by a sign or signal that the parking space adjacent thereto is or is not legally in use.

Each parking meter shall be set to display, after the operational procedure has been completed, a sign or signal indicating legal parking for that period of time conforming to the limit of parking time as indicated on the parking meter. Each parking meter shall indicate the limit of parking time in the parking space adjacent to the parking meter and shall continue to operate from the time of the completion of the operational procedure until the expiration of the time fixed as the parking limit, or a portion thereof, for the part of the street upon which such parking meter is placed. Each parking meter shall also be so arranged that upon the expiration of the legal parking time it will indicate by a mechanical operation and by proper signal that the lawful parking period has expired.

(§ 1, Ord. 390, eff. December 1, 1965, as amended by Ord. 94-6, eff. March 24, 1994)

The provisions of this article relating to the operation of parking meters shall be effective between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. on every day except Sundays and holidays.

(§ 1, Ord. 390, eff. December 1, 1965)

Immediately after the occupancy of a parking meter space, the operator of a vehicle shall deposit a coin of the United States in such parking meter and, if necessary, turn a crank, knob, or handle in accordance with the instructions posted on the face of the parking meter.

(§ 1, Ord. 390, eff. December 1, 1965)

The parking meter fees for the parking meter zones herein established shall be as follows:

(a) Where a parking meter indicates a limit of parking time in the parking space adjacent thereto to be twenty-four (24) minutes or less, one hour, or two (2) hours, the parking meter fee shall be one (1) cent for each twelve (12) minutes of parking time.

(b) Where a parking meter indicates a limit of parking time in the parking space adjacent thereto to be forty (40) minutes, the parking meter fee shall be (1) cent for each eight (8) minutes of parking time.

(§ 1, Ord. 390, eff. December 1, 1965)

No operator of any vehicle shall permit such vehicle to remain parked in any parking space during any time the parking meter is showing a signal indicating that such space is illegally in use other than such time immediately after the original occupancy as is necessary to operate the parking meter to show legal parking.

(§ 1, Ord. 390, eff. December 1, 1965)

No person shall follow the operational procedure for the purpose of increasing or extending the parking time of any vehicle beyond the legal parking time which has been established for the parking space adjacent to which such parking meter is placed.

(§ 1, Ord. 390, eff. December 1, 1965)

No person shall deposit, or cause to be deposited, in any parking meter any defaced or bent coin or any slug, device, or metallic substitute for a coin of the United States or deface, injure, tamper with, open, or wilfully break, destroy, or impair the usefulness of any parking meter.

(§ 1, Ord. 390, eff. December 1, 1965)

No person, other than the owner or operator of a vehicle, shall deposit any coin in any parking meter without the knowledge or consent of such owner or operator of the vehicle using the parking space immediately adjacent to such parking meter.

(§ 1, Ord. 390, eff. December 1, 1965)

No person shall 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.

(§ 1, Ord. 390, eff. December 1, 1965)

The parking or standing of any motor vehicle in a parking space, at which space the parking meter displays the sign or signal indicating illegal parking, shall constitute a prima facie presumption that the vehicle has been parked or allowed to stand in such space for a period longer than permitted by the provisions of this article.

(§ 1, Ord. 390, eff. December 1, 1965)

All moneys collected from parking meters in the City shall be placed in a special fund, which fund shall be devoted exclusively to the following purposes:

(a) For the purchasing, leasing, installing, repairing, maintaining, operating, removing, regulating, and policing of parking meters in the City and for the payment of any and all expenses relating or incidental thereto;

(b) For the purchasing, leasing, acquiring, improving, operating, and maintaining of off-street parking facilities in the City;

(c) For the installation and maintenance of traffic control devices and signals;

(d) For the painting and marking of streets and curbs required for the direction of traffic and parking of motor vehicles;

(e) For the proper regulation, control, and inspection of parking and traffic upon the public streets; and

(f) To be pledged as security for the payment of the principal of and interest on off-street parking revenue bonds issued by the City or any parking district organized within the City.

(§ 1, Ord. 390, eff. December 1, 1965)

No section of this article shall be construed as permitting any parking in violation of any other provision of this chapter.

(§ 1, Ord. 390, eff. December 1, 1965)