Point Arena Municipal Code § 10.05.300 Parking meter zones

(1) Parking meter zones are those streets or portions of streets established by ordinance or resolution of the council as zones within which the parking of vehicles shall be controlled, regulated and inspected with the aid of parking meters.

(2) The city council shall cause parking meters to be installed and maintained in all parking meter zones.

(Ord. 75 § 30, 1959.)

(1) Parking meters shall be installed upon the curb or sidewalk area immediately adjacent to each parking space. Each 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.

(2) 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 for the zone in which said parking meter is installed, 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 said meter is placed. Each said meter shall also be so arranged that upon the expiration of said legal parking time it will indicate by a mechanical operation and by proper signal that the lawful parking period has expired.

(Ord. 75 § 31, 1959.)

The provisions of this chapter relating to the operation of parking meters shall be effective between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. on every day except Sundays and holidays.

(Ord. 75 § 32, 1959.)

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

(Ord. 75 § 33, 1959.)

It shall be unlawful for the operator of any vehicle to permit said vehicle to remain parked in any parking space during any time that the 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 meter as to show legal parking.

(Ord. 75 § 34, 1959.)

(1) Notwithstanding the fact that a parking meter shall indicate legal parking, it shall be unlawful for any person to park or leave standing any vehicle in any area or parking space for a period of time in excess of parking limits prescribed and established by traffic regulations of this city.

(2) Notwithstanding any provisions of this chapter or of any traffic regulation of this city, when one-hour parking meters are installed in any area which by the provisions of this code is limited to parking for any other period of time, any parking meter space so designated is hereby declared to be in a one-hour parking area; and when two-hour parking meters are installed, any parking meter space so designated is hereby declared to be in a two-hour parking area.

(Ord. 75 § 35, 1959.)

It shall be unlawful and a violation of the provisions of this chapter for any person to follow the operational procedure or any part of the operational procedure for the purpose of increasing or extending the parking time of any vehicle which has been established for the parking space adjacent to which said parking meter is placed.

(Ord. 75 § 36, 1959.)

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 substitute for a coin of the United States, or for any person to deface, injure, tamper with, open or wilfully break, destroy or impair the usefulness of any parking meter.

(Ord. 75 § 37, 1959.)

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 said owner or operator of the vehicle using the parking space immediately adjacent to said meter.

(Ord. 75 § 38, 1959.)

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. 75 § 39, 1959.)

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 period longer than permitted by this chapter.

(Ord. 75 § 40, 1959.)