San Fernando Municipal Code Div. 3 Parking Payment Devices

(a) For purposes of this section, a paid parking device shall mean any device used to accept payment for parking, such as parking meters, pay stations, mobile devices or other methods approved by the city manager, and the term paid parking zone means an area in which signs, paid parking devices or curb markings prescribe a designated period for parking of vehicles.

(b) The city council, on the recommendation of the city manager or their designee, shall by resolution from time to time as traffic conditions require, designate paid parking zones, upon such streets or portions of streets of the City of San Fernando as are selected for the location of paid parking zones; and the city manager or their designee shall install or cause to be installed appropriate paid parking devices and signage and shall cause paid parking spaces to be designated within paid parking zones in such numbers and in such places as may be necessary for the regulation, control and inspection of the vehicles therein.

(Code 1957, § 13.96; Ord. No. 1738, § 8, 1-20-2026)

The city council may, by resolution, specify the streets or portions of streets or city-owned or leased off-street parking lots within paid parking zones wherein the parking payment devices shall be installed, together with the maximum parking time limit thereon. The city engineer is authorized and directed to install or direct the installation of parking payment devices in such paid parking zones as so directed by the city council for the purpose and in such numbers and at such places as may be necessary to the regulation, control and inspection of the parking of vehicles therein, including the reservation of loading zones for commercial vehicles.

(Code 1957, § 13.97; Ord. No. 1738, § 9, 1-20-2026)

Parking meters installed in parking meter zones shall be installed upon the curb or in off-street parking lots in the space immediately adjacent to the individual parking space described in section 90-284. Each parking meter shall be so constructed and adjusted as to show when properly operated and to signal that the space adjacent to which it is installed is or is not legally in use.

(Code 1957, § 13.98)

The city engineer shall have lines and markings painted upon the curb or street or city-owned or leased off-street parking lot adjacent to each parking meter, designating the parking space for which such meter is to be used, and each vehicle parked adjacent to any parking meter shall park within such line of marking. It shall be unlawful to park any vehicle across any such line or marking or to park a vehicle in such a position that it shall not be entirely within the space designated by such lines or markings.

(Code 1957, § 13.99)

(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to cause, allow or permit any vehicle registered in their name or operated or controlled by them to be upon any street or city-owned or leased off-street parking lot within a paid parking zone, in any space adjacent to which a parking payment device is installed, for more than the maximum parking time limit fixed and established by ordinance of the city council and indicated in the paid parking space or any time during which the parking payment device is indicating that such space is illegally in use other than such time as it is necessary to operate the parking payment device to show legal parking, between the operational hours of any day.

(b) Each hour of continued parking during which the parking payment device is showing a signal indicating that such space is illegally in use shall constitute a separate offense and shall be punishable as such.

(Code 1957, § 13.100; Ord. No. 1738, § 10, 1-20-2026)

(a) The legal method of payment, the parking time allowed following the deposit of the approved legal method of payment, and the directions which shall appear on the parking payment devices shall be established by the city manager or designee.

(b) The base parking rates and maximum parking time limits shall be set by the city council and includes in the city's adopted fee schedule.

(c) During each fiscal year, the city manager, or designee, shall have the authority to adjust parking payment device rates up or down by no more than $0.50 per hour in $0.25 increments, based on average occupancy rates, in order to achieve a target occupancy rate of 85 percent. Any increase over $0.50 per hour in a fiscal year shall require city council approval.

(Code 1957, § 13.101; Ord. No. 1738, § 11, 1-20-2026)

When a vehicle is parked in any space regulated by a parking payment device within a paid parking zone, established in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, the operator of said vehicle shall, upon entering said parking space or zone, immediately initiate a parking session using a city-approved method of payment, according to the time interval desired within the maximum limit and the posted parking rates, unless the paid parking device indicates at the time such vehicle is parked that an unexpired portion remains of the period of time for which a payment has previously been deposited.

(Code 1957, §§ 13.102—13.104; Ord. No. 1738, § 12, 1-20-2026)

(a) Use for public displays. The city council upon application therefor may grant temporary permits for the use of paid parking spaces for public display purposes.

(b) Parking of construction equipment. The chief of police upon application may grant a permit for parking of construction equipment where necessary because of construction work on abutting property.

(c) Posting no parking signs and parking payment device hoods. The chief of police is authorized (i) where it is required to facilitate the movement of traffic, and (ii) where a permit has been issued for the use of paid parking spaces to post no parking signs or hoods prohibiting parking in paid parking spaces. The chief of police shall conspicuously post on each parking payment device for each paid parking space wherein parking is to be prohibited or limited in use, as provided in this subsection, no parking signs or hoods over the parking payment devices.

(d) Parking in violation of no parking sign or hood. Any person, except for those given permission by the city council, parking a vehicle in any paid parking space which has been conspicuously posted with a no parking sign or hood as provided in subsection (c) of this section shall be guilty of a violation of this Code.

(e) Illegal posting of no parking sign or hood. Any person posting a no parking sign or hood on any parking payment device on a paid parking space not included in the permit shall be guilty of a violation of this Code.

(f) Charges and deposits. The council may, by resolution, provide and establish a charge to be made when public display or construction equipment is to be parked in a paid parking space, which charge shall be paid in advance to the police department or such other department as the council may determine by resolution. The council, by resolution, may also provide for a deposit for hoods or signs and provide the necessary means or methods of evidencing the method of payment of such charge by stickers or other similar device.

(Code 1957, § 13.105; Ord. No. 1738, § 13, 1-20-2026)

It shall be unlawful for any person to deposit or cause to be deposited in any parking payment device any slug, device or other substitute for lawful payment.

(Code 1957, § 13.106; Ord. No. 1738, § 14, 1-20-2026)

It shall be unlawful for any unauthorized person to operate or for any person to deface, injure, tamper with or willfully break, destroy or impair the usefulness of any paid parking device or time limit signage installed pursuant to this division or to hitch any animal thereto or to lean any bicycle against any parking payment device.

(Code 1957, § 13.107; Ord. No. 1738, § 15, 1-20-2026)

It shall be the duty of the city council to designate some person to make regular collections of the money deposited in paid parking devices and to deliver such money to the city treasurer. It shall be the duty of the city treasurer to count the money and place it in a special account to be known as parking & maintenance operations fund. Such person making such collections shall be bonded in the sum of $1,000.00 to ensure the faithful performance of their duties.

(Code 1957, § 13.108; Ord. No. 1738, § 16, 1-20-2026)

All charges for use of paid parking spaces as provided in this division are levied and assessed as the fee to provide for the proper regulation, control and inspection of traffic upon the public streets or off-street parking lots, as the case may be, and to cover the cost of supervising, regulating and inspecting the parking of vehicles in the paid parking zones provided for in this division and the cost of the acquisition, installation, operation, maintenance, repair and replacement of parking payment devices and expenses incidental thereto and the acquisition by purchase or lease, establishment, improvement, operation, maintenance, repair and replacement of off-street parking facilities.

(Code 1957, § 13.109; Ord. No. 1738, § 17, 1-20-2026)

(a) It shall be the duty of the police department to enforce this division.

(b) It shall be the duty of each community service officer to keep an account of and report the number of each parking payment device which indicates that vehicle occupying the parking space associated with each parking payment device is or has been parked in violation of this division, the date and hour of such violation, the make and state license number of such vehicle and any other facts, a knowledge of which is necessary to a thorough understanding of the circumstances attending such violation.

(c) The community service officer shall issue and attach in writing a citation for illegal parking in the same form and subject to the same procedure provided for by this chapter or city ordinances and state laws applicable to traffic regulations within the city.

(Code 1957, § 13.110; Ord. No. 1738, § 18, 1-20-2026)