Monterey Municipal Code Art. 8 Parking Meters

For the purpose of this Article the following words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this Section:

Generally. The definition of any term used in this Article not otherwise defined in this Section shall be the same as such term is defined and described in the State Vehicle Code.

Commercial vehicle. A vehicle of a type required to be registered under the State Vehicle Code and used or maintained for the transportation of persons for hire, compensation or profit, or designed, used or maintained primarily for the transportation of property.

Operator. Every individual who shall operate a vehicle as the owner thereof, or as the agent, employee or permittee of the owner, or who is in actual physical control of a vehicle.

Parking or park. The standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, upon a street otherwise than temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading passengers or merchandise.

Parking meter. Any device which when a coin is deposited therein indicates the parking time for the vehicle parked adjacent thereto.

Parking meter space. A parking space of sufficient size to permit the parking of one vehicle only adjacent to a parking meter within a parking meter zone.

Parking meter zone. A portion of a street or City-owned or leased land upon which the parking of vehicles is regulated with the aid of parking meters.

Street. Any public street, avenue, road, alley, highway or other public way located in the City and established for the use of vehicles.

Vehicle. Any device on, upon or by which any person is or may be propelled, moved or drawn upon a street or highway, except a device used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks.

The City Council shall, by resolution, establish parking meter zones, including therein such streets, portions of streets or City-owned or leased land, as parking conditions require.

Following the establishment of parking meter zones, the Traffic Engineer shall designate, by white lines upon the surface of the roadway or pavement, parking meter spaces in the established parking meter zones. At each space so designated no person shall park any vehicle in such a manner that such vehicle is not entirely within the limits of the space so designated. (Ord. 3424 § 8, 2009)

The City Manager shall cause to be installed upon the curb or sidewalk adjacent to each designated parking meter space such parking meters as shall have been approved by the City Council.

The denomination of the coins that shall be deposited in parking meters, the parking time allowed following deposit of such coins, and the direction which shall appear on the parking meters, shall be such as may be prescribed by the City Council by resolution.

No person shall park any vehicle in any parking meter space, except as otherwise permitted by this Article, without immediately depositing in the parking meter adjacent to such space such lawful coins of the United States as are required by such meter and as designated by directions on the meter, and when required by the directions on the meter, setting in operation the timing mechanism thereof in accordance with such directions, unless such parking meter indicates at the time such vehicle is parked that an unexpired portion remains of the period for which a coin has been previously deposited.

No person, except as otherwise provided by this Article, shall permit any vehicle parked by him to remain parked in any parking meter space during any time when the parking meter adjacent to such space indicates that no portion remains of the period for which the last previous coin had been deposited, or beyond the time limited for parking on that street or part of street by virtue of the provisions of this Chapter.

A vehicle may be parked and remain parked in a parking meter space without the deposit of any coin in the parking meter adjacent thereto from the hour of 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 a.m., and on Sundays and holidays; except, that the City Council, by a resolution establishing parking meter zones, may provide that meters in any such zones are enforced on Sundays and holidays, and the meters placed in such zones shall be plainly so marked.

A vehicle may be parked and remain parked in a parking meter space without the deposit of a coin in the parking meter adjacent thereto on Saturdays when the City Council has, by resolution, declared that the area in which such meter is situated shall be exempt from time limit restrictions, pursuant to the ordinance or ordinances regulating parking time limits.

a.Vehicles owned or operated by the City may park in parking spaces without depositing coins in the parking meters adjacent thereto when such vehicles are being used in line of duty.

b.Commercial vehicles may park in parking spaces to load or unload merchandise without depositing coins in the parking meters adjacent thereto for a period not to exceed 15 minutes. Should any such commercial vehicle be parked longer than 15 minutes without depositing a coin, the owner or operator thereof will be given a notice provided for in Section 20-18 and the regular penalty imposed. No such commercial vehicle may so park in violation of the other provisions of this Chapter.

c.Commercial vehicles carrying heavy tolls, material or equipment, while actually engaged in construction or repair work upon the public street or property adjacent thereto may park in parking spaces without depositing any coins, upon special written permit therefor being issued by the Parking Facilities Supervisor or by renting appropriate parking meter hoods and placing them over the meter in the manner set forth in this Section.

d.The Parking Facilities Supervisor is authorized to issue parking meter zone hoods to person engaged in construction or repair work, and such persons are hereby authorized to use such hoods as provided in this Section.

1.Such hoods shall only be issued to those person engaged in construction or repair work upon the public street or property adjacent thereto, and only after due application, and after the Parking Facilities Supervisor is satisfied that the person has need for the hoods.

2.Application for the issuance of a parking meter zone hood shall be made on a form approved by the Parking Facilities Supervisor, and shall require the following information:

i.The name and address of the applicant and the firm he represents.

ii.The license numbers of the vehicles that will be using the hoods.

iii.A statement of the reasons for the need of such parking restriction.

iv.Such other relevant information as the Parking Facilities Supervisor may require.

3.The parking meter hood shall consist of:

i.A canvas hood of sufficient size to cover up the parking meter head.

ii.A locking device with the word “Construction Parking Only” printed on the hood in lettering as large as the space on the hood will permit.

4.The hoods shall be conspicuously numbered and shall be rented by the Parking Facilities Supervisor on the basis of $10 per fiscal year, starting with July 1, and if part of the fiscal year has past, then at the rate of $2.50 for each quarter of a year, or part of a quarter of the fiscal year remaining, otherwise at $2 per month. Upon revocation or surrender of the authority to use such hood, the hood shall be returned and no refunds shall be made.

5.The Parking Facilities Supervisor may revoke the authority granted under this Section to use such hood for any of the following reasons:

i.When the person has failed to pay the fee as provided in this Section.

ii.When the Parking Facilities Supervisor is satisfied that the circumstances no longer require the existence of such authority.

iii.When the person is found to be using the hood for other purposes than to fulfill the need for which the authority to use the hood was granted.

6.The person authorized to use such parking meter hood shall place such hood over the head of the parking meter with the lettering facing the street and shall lock the lock provided on the hood, and shall only place or allow such hood to remain on the parking meter during such times as they are engaged in construction or repair work upon the public street, or the property adjacent thereto.

7.No person shall cause, allow, permit or suffer any vehicle operated or controlled by him to be parked in any parking space within a parking meter zone adjacent to which a parking meter is established while a parking meter hood is properly in place on the head of the parking meter, unless such parking is while actually engaged in construction or repair work upon the public street or property adjacent thereto.

The City Council may establish, by resolution from time to time, permit parking spaces in the City off-street parking lots, on Municipal Wharf No. 2, or on other City-owned property. When authorized signs are in place giving notice thereof no person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle in any such space unless such person has displayed a valid, unexpired permit parking sticker in the lower right-hand corner of the front windshield of such vehicle. The resolution shall set the monthly or quarterly charge for such permit parking and all permit parking receipts derived from off-street parking lots, or derived from parking meters purchased from the parking fund, shall be credited to the parking fund. All other receipts shall be credited to the fund designated in the resolution of the City Council which establishes the particular permit parking spaces.

Any person unintentionally violating any provision of Sections 20-98 or 20-99 by reason of a mechanical failure of a parking meter not caused by such person or known to him prior to such violation may be acquitted of such violation upon establishing such facts by a preponderance of the evidence.

No person shall deface, injure, tamper with, open or willfully break, destroy or impair the usefulness of any parking meter, except by authority of the City Manager or the City Council.

No person shall deposit or attempt to deposit in any parking meter any slug or other substitute for a coin of the United States.

The City Manager shall be responsible for the installation, servicing, maintenance and repair of all parking meters.

The City Manager shall designate some person to make regular collections of all coins deposited in parking meters and it shall be the duty of such person to deliver such money to the collector.

All receipts from the operation of parking meters, gates or other devices for the collection of parking fees shall be credited to the parking fund, except those moneys collected from that portion of Municipal Parking Lot No. 1 between the extension of Washington Street and the westerly edge of Municipal Wharf No. 2, which shall be credited to the Marina fund. Money in such parking fund shall be expended as follows:

a.First for payments due for the acquisition and installation of parking meters.

b.75% of the balance of such funds for the acquisition by purchase or lease of off-street parking facilities and for their improvement or maintenance.

c.25% of the balance of such fund shall be transferred to the general fund for the operation, maintenance and repair of parking meters, expenses incidental thereto and for general municipal purposes, including traffic enforcement, traffic engineering, street signs and signals, the purchase, maintenance and improvement of off-street parking facilities and for traffic enforcement officer’s salaries.

The provisions of this Section shall not apply to receipts from the operation of parking meters which are allocated and pledged to the payment of bonds and the interest thereon, to the payment of operation and maintenance costs of parking facilities or to the establishment and maintenance of any reserve funds, sinking funds or other funds designed for securing or paying bonds and the interest thereon in any proceedings for the creation of any vehicle off-street parking district or the issuance of bonds thereof. In such cases, the allocations and pledges made in such proceedings shall apply.