San Jose Municipal Code Part 3 Airport Parking Meter Zones

Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Code, the San José Municipal Airport off-street parking lots and areas of this city, as are hereinafter designated in this Part 3, are defined and established as off-street parking meter zones within which the parking of vehicles shall be controlled, regulated and inspected with the aid of parking meters, and shall be governed by the provisions of this part. Parking meters shall be located as shown upon a map or maps of the city designated as the "Off-Street Parking Meter Zone Map, San José Municipal Airport, City of San José," and any amendments thereto, which map is on file in the office of the city clerk. The map or maps, and all amendments thereto, and markings thereon, are incorporated herein by reference and made a part hereof as though fully set forth herein. The director of aviation may cause parking meters to be installed and maintained in any or all off-street parking meter zones or in any part of any of said off-street parking meter zones; provided, that unless and until parking meters are installed in a zone or part thereof, the provisions of this part shall not apply thereto, but instead such zones or parts thereof where meters have not been installed shall continue to be governed by other provisions of this Code applicable thereto relating to parking of vehicles thereon. The rate of fees for each parking meter zone shall be as hereinafter set forth for each zone.

(Prior code § 3320.1.)

A. Map reference: Airport Off-Street Parking Map No. 1 - Red color.

B. Rate of fees: Fifty cents for each hour.

C. Airport off-street parking lots included: That portion of San José Municipal Airport Terminal Parking Lot, described as follows: All that real property situated in the City of San José, county of Santa Clara, state of California, lying entirely within the boundaries of the San José Municipal Airport and more particularly described as follows:

1. Beginning at a brass pin set in concrete on the centerline of Brokaw Road Bridge over the Guadalupe River, said brass pin set 5.55 feet North 42° 35' 45" east of the most westerly concrete edge on centerline of said bridge; thence leaving said brass pin South 42° 35' 45" West, 172.28 feet; thence on a tangent curve to the left with a radius of 150.00 feet, an angle of 82° 52' 41", and a length of 132.42 feet; thence South 49° 43' 04" West, 3.00 feet; thence South 40° 16' 56" East, 990.53 feet; thence North 49° 43' 04" East, 40.00 feet to the true point of beginning of this description.

2. Beginning at the true point of beginning of this description, North 49° 43' 04" East, 64.00 feet; thence South 40° 16' 56" East, 239.8 feet; thence on a tangent curve to the left with a radius of 59.70 feet, an angle of 60° 00' 00" and a length of 62.52 feet; thence North 79° 43' 04" East, 11.00 feet; thence South 10° 16' 56" East, 64.00 feet; thence South 79° 43' 04" West, 11.00 feet; thence on a tangent curve to the right with a radius of 123.70 feet, an angle of 60° 99' 00", and a length of 129.54 feet; thence North 40° 16' 56" West, 239.8 feet to the true point of beginning of this description.

(Prior code § 3320.2(A).)

A. Map No. 2 - Yellow Color.

B. Rate of fees: Fifty cents for each hour:

C. Airport off-street parking areas included: That portion of San José Municipal Airport Terminal Access Road, described as follows: All that real property situated in the City of San José, county of Santa Clara, state of California, lying entirely within the boundaries of the San José Municipal Airport and more particularly described as follows:

1. Beginning at a brass pin set in concrete on the centerline of Brokaw Road Bridge over the Guadalupe River, said brass pin set 5.55 feet North 42° 35' 45" East of the most westerly concrete edge on centerline of said bridge; thence leaving said brass pin South 42° 43' 45" West, 172.28 feet; thence on a tangent curve to the left with a radius of 150.00 feet, an angle of 82° 52' 41", and a length of 132.42 feet; thence South 49° 43' 04" West, 25.00 feet to the true point of beginning of this description.

2. Beginning at the true point of beginning of this description North 49° 43"' 04" East 9.00 feet; thence South 40° 16' 56" East, 597.88 feet; thence South 49° 43' 04" West, 9.00 feet; thence North 40° 16' 56" West, 597.88 feet to the true point of beginning of this description.

(Prior code § 3320.2(B).)

A. Map No. 2 - Orange color.

B. Rate of fees: Fifty cents for each hour.

C. Airport off-street parking areas included:

That portion of San José Municipal Airport Terminal Access Road, described as follows: All that real property situated in the City of San José, county of Santa Clara, state of California, lying entirely within the boundaries of the San José Municipal Airport and more particularly described as follows:

1. Beginning at a brass pin set in concrete on the centerline of Brokaw Road Bridge over the Guadalupe River, said brass pin set 5.55 feet North 42° 35' 45" East of the most westerly concrete edge on centerline of said bridge; thence leaving said brass pin South 42° 35' 45" West, 172.28 feet; thence on a tangent curve to the left with a radius of 150.00 feet, an angle of 82° 52' 41", and a length of 132.42 feet; thence North 49° 43' 04" East, 25.00 feet to the true point of beginning of this description.

2. Beginning at the true point of beginning of this description, South 40o 16' 56" East, 597.88 feet; thence South 49° 43' 04" West, 9.00 feet; thence North 40° 16' 56" West, 597.88 feet; thence North 49° 43' 04" East, 9.00 feet to the true point of beginning of this description.

(Prior code § 3320.2(C).)

The director of aviation shall have parking meters installed immediately adjacent to each parking space. Each meter shall be placed in such a manner as to show or display by a sign or signal that the parking space adjacent thereto is or is not legally in use. 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 or 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 parking limit or a portion thereof for the part of off-street parking lot 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 the proper signal that the lawful parking period has expired.

(Prior code § 3320.4.)

The director of aviation is authorized to determine the maximum parking time to be allowed in said off-street parking meter zones and to cause signs, which fulfill the requirements of the ordinances and resolutions of the city pertaining thereto, to be placed at various parts of such zones so designated.

(Prior code § 3320.3.)

The provisions of this Part 3 relating to the operation of off-street parking meters shall be effective continuously for twenty-four hours per day, Mondays through Sundays, including holidays.

(Prior code § 3320.6.)

Parking meters, when installed, shall be adjusted so that legal parking time is registered and accumulated upon such meter in units of thirty minutes upon and after the deposit of each United States twenty-five-cent coin or an authorized token for said amount; or in units of one hundred twenty minutes upon and after the deposit of one dollar in United States twenty-five-cent coins or in authorized tokens for said amount; provided, however, that the minimum registration time on each meter shall be thirty minutes; and provided further, that no parking meter shall be adjusted to show or register any period of parking time in excess of the maximum legal parking time limit designated by appropriate sign in the area or zone wherein any such parking meter is installed. As used in this part, the term "authorized token" shall mean a token duly issued and authorized by the city to be used as a substitute for a twenty-five-cent coin of the United States in parking meters installed pursuant to this part.

(Prior code § 3320.5.)

The director of aviation shall have lines or markings painted or placed upon the area adjacent to each parking meter, designating the parking space for which said meter is to be used, and each vehicle parked adjacent to or next to any parking meter shall park within the lines or markings so established. No person shall park any vehicle across any such lines or markings or park a vehicle in such a position that the same shall not be entirely within the space designated by such lines or markings.

(Prior code § 3320.7.)

Immediately after occupancy of a parking meter space, the operator of a vehicle shall deposit a twenty-five-cent coin of the United States or authorized token in said parking meter and, if necessary, turn a crank, knob or handle in accordance with the instruction posted on the face of the parking meter to activate the parking meter and indicate the parking time limit achieved by the coin or authorized token deposited therein.

(Prior code § 3320.8.)

No operator of any vehicle shall 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 to show legal parking.

(Prior code § 3320.9; Ord. 21735.)

No unauthorized 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.

(Prior code § 3320.12.)

No person shall deposit or cause to be deposited in any parking meter any defaced or bent coin, or any slug, device or metallic or other substitute for a coin of the United States, other than an authorized token, or deface, injure, tamper with, open or wilfully break, destroy or impair the usefulness of any parking meter.

(Prior code § 3320.13.)

Each airport security officer shall take the number of any meter at which any vehicle is overparked as provided in this Part 3; the state vehicle license of such vehicle; the time and date of such overparking; and the make of such vehicle; and issue, in writing, a citation for illegal parking.

(Prior code § 3320.14.)

All moneys collected pursuant to the provisions of this part shall be collected by the airport department and deposited into the City of San José airport revenue fund.

(Prior code § 3320.15.)