San Leandro Municipal Code Art. 1 Parking Meter Zones

(Legislative History: Ordinance No. 70-8, 2/2/70; Ordinance No. 78-35, 7/17/78; Ordinance No. 82-084, 11/1/82; Ordinance No. 2005-007, 6/20/05 (Sections 6-2-115 and 6-2-135); Ordinance No. 2018-001, 3/19/18 (Sections 6-2-100—6-2-145))

(a) Parking Meter Zones: The City Council, on the recommendation of the City Manager, shall by resolution from time to time as traffic conditions require, designate parking meter zones, upon such streets or portions of streets of the City of San Leandro as are selected for the location of parking meter zones; and the City Manager shall cause parking meters to be installed and shall cause parking meter spaces to be designated within parking meter zones, as hereinafter provided. The City Council, on recommendation of the City Manager, may modify or eliminate parking meter zones.

Unless otherwise permitted by signs, no person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle in a parking meter zone between the hours designated within the parking meter zone of any day for longer than the prescribed period. For purposes of this section, the term parking meter zone means an area in which signs, parking meters or curb markings prescribe a designated period for parking of vehicles.

(b) Variations: When temporary special parking or traffic conditions require different hours or days of parking restrictions, the City Manager may vary the hours and days during which the restrictions in the parking meter zones shall be in effect, and, when authorized signs are in place giving notice thereof, no person shall stop, stand, or park any vehicle contrary to the direction or provisions of such signs.

(c) Off-Street Parking Meter Zones: The City Council may by resolution establish off-street parking meter zones, including any land owned, leased, or controlled by the City, as traffic and parking conditions require. Such resolution shall also establish the fees for parking in such off-street parking meter zones.

The City Manager shall cause parking meters to be installed in all parking meter zones upon the curb, sidewalk or other area immediately adjacent to or near each parking space.

No person shall park a vehicle in a parking meter zone, except as otherwise permitted by this Chapter, without immediately depositing payment corresponding to the parking space occupied such lawful payment as is permitted or required by such parking meter, and when required by directions on the meter setting in operation the timing mechanism thereof, unless the parking meter 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.

Each parking meter shall indicate the period of time that a vehicle may legally be stopped, parked or left standing in the regulated parking space.

When any vehicle is parked in any space alongside of or next to a single-space parking meter which is located in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter, or when any vehicle is parked in any space or zone adjacent to which a multi-space parking meter is located in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter, the operator of said vehicle shall, upon entering said parking space or zone, immediately cause to be deposited in the appropriate denomination, or otherwise immediately purchase time using an approved method of payment, according to the time interval desired within the maximum limit and the posted parking rates.

The City Manager shall cause each parking space within a parking meter zone to be marked with white lines designating such parking space. No person shall stop, park or leave standing any vehicle in a parking meter zone in any manner other than wholly within a parking space so designated.

Any person who shall stop, park or leave standing a vehicle in a parking space in a parking meter zone shall immediately thereupon deposit fees as hereinafter prescribed in the parking meter adjacent to or near such parking space.

No person shall stop, park or leave standing any vehicle in a parking space in a parking meter zone at any time during which the parking meter signal indicates that the parking space is not legally in use except during such time as is reasonably necessary to deposit fees in such parking meter.

No person shall purchase time from any parking meter using any method of payment 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 or zone adjacent to which said parking meter is placed.

No person shall stop, park or leave standing any vehicle in a parking space in a parking meter zone for a period of time greater than that prescribed for such parking space.

Any vehicle parked at an inoperable or broken parking meter shall be permitted to park for the maximum time period permitted for that parking meter.

No person shall deposit or cause to be deposited in any parking meter any defaced or bent coin, or any slug, metallic device or other substitute for United States coin.

No person shall deface, injure, tamper with, open or willfully break, destroy or impair the usefulness of any parking meter.

The parking meter fees for the parking meter zones established in this Article shall be in conformance with the latest adopted City user fees and service charges.

The revenue raised by the collection of parking meter fees shall be paid into the treasury of this City, and shall be used for costs of acquisition, installation and maintenance of parking meters, municipal parking lots and traffic control devices; costs of regulation of traffic and parking; and other related costs.