Santa Barbara County Municipal Code Ch. 23D Parking Meters

This chapter is enacted pursuant to authority granted by sections 22508 of the California Vehicle Code. This chapter may be referred to as the parking meter program.

(Ord. No. 4543, § 1)

"Parking Meter" shall mean any device controlled by the county which is designed, upon the lawful deposit of a fee, to measure in minutes or hours the period of time during which a vehicle may be parked in the parking space for which the fee was deposited, and so constructed or equipped that the same will, upon expiration of the time for which such fee was deposited, indicate such expiration of time. Parking meter shall include pay station devices that control multiple parking spaces.

(Ord. No. 4543, § 1)

Parking meter zones are hereby established for the following areas:

(a) Isla Vista Downtown Commercial Area:

(1) The Embarcadero Loop: Both sides of Embarcadero Del Mar and Embarcadero Del Norte, bounded by Pardall Road;

(2) Both sides of Trigo Road, bounded on the east by Embarcadero Del Mar and extending approximately two hundred sixty feet to the west;

(3) The north side of Trigo Road, bounded on the west by Embarcadero Del Norte and extending approximately two hundred sixty feet to the east;

(4) The south side of Trigo Road, bounded on the west by Embarcadero Del Norte and extending approximately one hundred eighty feet to the east;

(5) Both sides of Seville Road, bounded on the east by Embarcadero Del Mar and extending approximately two hundred forty feet to the west;

(6) Both sides of Seville Road, bounded on the west by Embarcadero Del Norte and extending approximately one hundred fifty feet to the east;

(7) Both sides of Madrid Road, bounded on the east by Embarcadero Del Mar and extending approximately one hundred sixty feet to the west;

(8) Both sides of Madrid Road, bounded on the west by Embarcadero Del Norte and extending approximately one hundred seventy feet to the east;

(9) Both sides of Pardall Road, bounded on the east by Embarcadero Del Mar and extending approximately two hundred sixty feet to the west;

(10) The north side of Pardall Road, bounded on the west by Embarcadero Del Norte and extending approximately three hundred thirty feet to the east;

(11) The south side of Pardall Road, bounded on the west by Embarcadero Del Norte and extending approximately two hundred fifty feet to the east;

(12) Both sides of Pardall Road, bounded on the west by Embarcadero Del Mar and Embarcadero Del Norte on the east;

(13) Both sides of Embarcadero Del Mar, bounded on the south by Pardall Road and extending approximately one hundred seventy feet to the north; and

(14) Both sides of Embarcadero Del Norte, bounded on the south by Pardall Road and extending approximately two hundred ten feet to the north.

All measurements are estimated from the center-line of the corresponding street, and are approximations.

(Ord. No. 4543, § 1)

The hours of operation shall be from 7:00 A.M. to 8:00 P.M., seven days per week, holidays excluded.

(Ord. No. 4543, § 1)

Parking meter fees shall be forty cents per fifteen minutes. The maximum amount of meter time that may be purchased at a time is forty-five minutes, except that parking meter controlled parking spaces reserved for coastal access parking shall allow four hours of time to be purchased at a time. Signs shall clearly designate parking meter controlled spaces that are reserved for coastal access parking.

(Ord. No. 4543, § 1)

In the event that a parking meter is rendered inoperable due to mechanical or other failure, the parking space or spaces controlled by that parking meter shall be treated as a forty-five minute parking zone until such time as the parking meter is operational. It is a violation of this chapter for a vehicle to remain parked in a parking space controlled by an inoperable meter beyond forty-five minutes.

(Ord. No. 4543, § 1)

It is unlawful and a violation of this chapter for any person to purchase additional time for a parking meter controlled parking space for the purpose of increasing or extending the parking time of any vehicle beyond the maximum amount of meter time that may be purchased.

(Ord. No. 4543, § 1)

No person shall do any of the following:

(a) Fail to pay the parking meter fee immediately after parking a vehicle in a parking meter zone during the parking meter hours of operation.

(b) Deposit in a parking meter a defaced coin, slug, foreign object, or counterfeit bill.

(c) Pay the parking meter fee by illegal or fraudulent use of a credit card or other means of electronic payment.

(d) Deface, injure, or tamper with any part of a parking meter.

(e) Deface, injure, or tamper with the parking stall numbers painted on the street

(f) Attach any article to a parking meter.

(g) Allow a vehicle owned or operated by such person to remain parked in a parking meter controlled parking space after the purchased time has expired. This provision does not apply to the period necessary after initial occupancy of a parking meter controlled parking space for the immediate deposit of the parking meter fee.

(h) Park a vehicle across a line or marking designating a parking meter controlled parking space.

(i) Allow a vehicle parked by such person to remain in a parking meter controlled parking spot after receipt of a citation for failure to pay the parking meter fee.

(Ord. No. 4543, § 1)

The parking of a vehicle in a parking meter controlled parking space for which the purchased time recorded on the parking receipt and recorded by the parking meter has expired shall constitute prima facie evidence that the vehicle has been parked in such space longer than permitted by this section. If there is a discrepancy between the time recorded on the parking receipt and the time recorded by the parking meter, the latter shall control.

(Ord. No. 4543, § 1)

Mechanical or other failure of a parking meter shall be a defense to a citation for failure to pay the parking meter fee provided that the person cited is not responsible for such failure.

(Ord. No. 4543, § 1)

A violation of this section shall constitute an infraction punishable by a fine not to exceed one hundred dollars.

(Ord. No. 4543, § 1)