Los Angeles Municipal Code § 88.13 Failure to Pay for a Parking Meter Space

(Title and Section Amended by Ord. No. 180,092, Eff. 9/7/08.)

(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to park, or to cause, allow, permit or suffer to be parked, a vehicle in any parking meter space, except as provided by Sections 88.01.1, 88.03.1 and 88.06.1, without immediately making or causing to be made a lawful payment at an applicable parking meter as provided in Section 88.07.

(b) It shall be unlawful for any person to cause, allow, permit or suffer any vehicle to remain in any parking meter space for more than the time indicated by posted signs or on an applicable parking meter indicating the maximum parking time allowed in such parking meter space, or during any time the applicable parking meter is indicating that the time has elapsed for which lawful payment has been made for said parking meter space; provided, however, that the provisions of this Section shall not apply to any vehicle described in Section 80.05, vehicles owned by the City of Los Angeles, or vehicles operated pursuant to Sections 88.01.1, 88.03.1 and 88.06.1.

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

(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to park, or to cause, allow, permit or suffer to be parked, a commercial vehicle in any commercial loading zone, time limit zone or no parking zone for a period exceeding 30 minutes unless such person activates and displays within the vehicle a personal parking meter, approved by the Department, that indicates the hours and minutes parked at a location and is calibrated to assess the rates established in Section 88.00.1.

(b) It shall be unlawful for any person to cause, allow, permit or suffer any vehicle to remain in any commercial loading zone, time limit zone or no parking zone after the person’s personal parking meter has expired and in no event beyond the posted time limit in a time limit zone.

(c) It shall be unlawful for any person to alter or manipulate in any way a personal parking meter, approved for use in the City of Los Angeles, for the purposes of reducing the actual charged time or extending the parking time beyond the four-hour maximum limit for the space occupied.

B. PARKING ON PUBLICLY OWNED OFF-STREET PARKING FACILITIES