Los Angeles Municipal Code § 88.01 Installation of Parking Meters Authorized

The Department is hereby authorized and directed to install or caused to be installed, parking meters in all parking meter zones hereby established or hereafter created by the Council of the City of Los Angeles, in such numbers as may be designated by said Council and in such places in parking meter zones as may be determined by said Council be necessary to the regulation, control and inspection, of the parking of vehicles therein, said determination shall be based upon good traffic engineering principles, traffic investigation and surveys made from time to time by the Department of Transportation. (Amended by Ord. No. 151,833, Eff 2/10/79, Oper. 2/25/79.)

(a) Parking meters installed in parking meter zones shall be placed upon the curb or area adjacent to the parking meter spaces hereinafter described. (Amended by Ord. No. 180,092, Eff. 9/7/08.)

(b) No other officer, board or department of this City, and no private agency or person, shall install or place any parking meter within the purview of this division except upon the order of the Department.

(Amended by Ord. No. 134,523, Eff. 7/17/67.)

(c) For the convenience of the public, parking meters may be installed which accept coins of a greater monetary value than that which is required for the parking space for which the meter is installed. (Added

by Ord. No. 144,115, Eff. 12/31/72.)

(Added by Ord. No. 170,019, Eff. 10/21/94.)

The Department is hereby authorized and directed to permit commercial vehicles to park up to a maximum of four hours in commercial loading zone, designated by signs or yellow curb paint, time limit zones with a posted limit of one or more hours, and no parking zones, when such vehicles are engaged in loading or unloading activities and are equipped with an activated personal parking meter, approved by the Department, that charges for time pursuant to the rate schedule set forth in Section 88.00.1 of this chapter.