Ripon Municipal Code Ch. 10.36 Parking Meters

Sections: 10.36.010 Parking meter zones. 10.36.020 Installation. 10.36.030 Hours of operation. 10.36.040 Operational procedure. 10.36.050 Unlawful parking after expiration. 10.36.060 Unlawful extension of time beyond limit. 10.36.070 Improper use. 10.36.080 Deposit of coins by unauthorized person. 10.36.090 Unlawful use of meter or meter standard. 10.36.100 Prima facie evidence of violation. 10.36.110 Use of funds. 10.36.120 Application of other regulations.

A. Parking meter zones are those streets or portions of streets established by resolution of the council as zones within which the parking of vehicles shall be controlled, regulated and inspected with the aid of parking meters. B. The chief of police shall cause parking meters to be installed and maintained in all parking meter zones. (Ord. 203 § 13, 1969)

A. 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. B. Each parking meter shall be set to display, after the operational procedure has been completed, a sign or signal indicating legal parkings for that period of time conforming to the limit of parking time for the zone in which the 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 'larking limit or a portion thereof for the part of the street upon which the meter is placed. Each 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. (Ord. 203 § 13.1,;1969)

The provisions of this chapter relating to the operation of parking meters shall be effective between the hours of nine a.m. and six p.m. on every day except Sundays and holidays. (Ord. 203 § 13.2, 1969)

Immediately after occupancy of a parking meter space, the operator of a vehicle shall deposit a coin of the United States in the parking meter and if necessary turn a crank, knob or handle in accordance with the instructions posted on the face of the parking meter. (Ord. 203 § 13.3, 1969)

expiration. No operator of any vehicle shall permit the 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 to show legal parking. (Ord. 203 § 13.4, 1969)

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beyond limit. No person shall follow the operational procedure or any part of 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 the parking meter is placed. (Ord. 203 § 13.5, 1969)

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. (Ord. 203 § 13.6, 1969)

unauthorized person. 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 the owner or operator of the vehicle using the parking space immediately adjacent to the meter. (Ord. 203 § 13.7, 1969)

standard. 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. (Ord. 203 § 13,8, 1969)

violation. 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 this chapter. (Ord. 203 § 13.9, 1969)

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; F. To be pledged as security for the payment of principal of and interest on off-street parking revenue bonds issued by the city, or any parking district organized within the city. (Ord. 203 § 13.10, 1969)

No section of this chapter shall be construed as permitting any parking in violation of any other provision of this title. (Ord. 203 § 13.11, 1969)