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<br />On and after the effective time and date of this ordinance, all ordinances or parts
<br />thereof in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.
<br />Adopted by the Council July 7, 1939•
<br />Ayes: 1Ir. uleason, Dr. Haden, Mr. Huff, and
<br />1-7 Mr. Jessup
<br />Noes: None.
<br />Clerk President
<br />parked in such parking space shall be parked with the foremost part of such
<br />vehicle directed at and nearest to such meter.
<br />(6) When any vehicle shall be parked in any space alongside of or next
<br />to which a parking meter is located, in accordance with the provisions of
<br />this section, the operator of said vehicle shall, upon entering the said park-
<br />ing space, immediately deposit, or cause to be deposited, a five -cent coin of
<br />the United States of America in such parking meter and the said parking space
<br />may there be lawfully occupied by such vehicle during the period prescribed as
<br />the period of parking time allowed in said zone. If said vehicle shall remain
<br />in such parking space beyond the parking time limit prescribed for such park-
<br />ing space, the parking meter shall display a sign or signal showing illegal
<br />parking, and in which event the vehicle parted in said parking space shall be
<br />considered as par' -ed overtime and beyond the period of legal parking time,
<br />and the parking of a vehicle overtime or beyond the period of legal parking
<br />time in such parking space shall be a violation of this ordinance and punish-
<br />ed as hereinafter set out. It shall be unlawful for any person to cause,
<br />allow, permit or suffer any vehicle registered in the name of such person to
<br />be parked overtime or beyond the period of legal parking time established for
<br />any parking meter zone as herein described.
<br />(7) It shall be unlawful and a violation of the provisions of this
<br />section for any person to permit a vehicle to remain or to be parked in any
<br />parking space adjacent to any parking meter while said meter is displaying a
<br />signal indicating that the vehicle occupying such parking space has already
<br />been parked beyond the period of time prescribed for such parking space.
<br />(8) It shall be unlawful to deposit or cause to be deposited in any
<br />meter any slug, device or metallic substitute for a five -cent coin of the
<br />United States-.
<br />(9) It shall be unlawful for any person to deface, injure, tamper with,
<br />open, or willfully break, destroy or impair the usefulness of any parking
<br />meter installed under the provisions of this section.
<br />(10) Each police officer charged with the duty of enforcing this section
<br />shall take the number of any meter at which any vehicle is over -par -'-,,ed, the
<br />vehicle tag number of such vehicle, the length of time during which such
<br />vehicle is parked in violation of this section, and report the same to the
<br />Police Department and make proper complaint touching such violation.
<br />Each such officer shall attach to such vehicle a notice to the owner'
<br />thereof that such vehicle has been parked in violation of a provision of
<br />this section and instructing such owner when and where to report with refer-
<br />ence to said violation. Each such owner may, within 48 hours of the time
<br />when such notice was attached to such vehicle, pay the Ulerk of the Civil
<br />and Police Justice Court a penalty for and in full satisfaction of such
<br />violation, the sum of One ($1.00) Dollar for each hour, or fraction thereof,
<br />during which such vehicle occupied such parking space in violation of any of
<br />the provisions of this section. The failure of such owner to make such pay-
<br />ment to the Clerk of the Civil and Police Justice Court, within said 48 hours,
<br />shall render such o,,.iner subject to the penalties hereinafter provided for the
<br />violation of the provisions of this section.
<br />(11) Five -cent coins required to be deposited in parking meters, as
<br />,drovided herein, are hereby levied and assessed as fees to provide for the
<br />proper regulation and control of traffic on the public streets and to cover
<br />the cost of the supervision, inspection, installation, operation, mainten-
<br />ance, control and use of the parking spaces and regulating the parking of
<br />vehicles in the parsing meter zone hereby created.
<br />(12) The Mayor., City Manager and Chief of Police are authorized to set
<br />apart, within the parking zones hereby defined, spaces for loading zones,
<br />bus stops, taxi stands and other places in which no parking shall be per-
<br />mitted.
<br />(13) Operators of delivery vehicles may use without deposit any park-
<br />ing meter space during the actual loading and unloading of such delivery
<br />vehicles. Operators of passenger vehicles, commercial or private, may use
<br />without deposit a parking meter space for the purpose of promptly receiving
<br />or discharging any passenger.
<br />(14) The owner of any vehicle parked in violation of this section shall
<br />be prima facie guilty of such violation.
<br />(15) Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this section
<br />shall be punished by a fine of not less than Two Dollars and Fifty Cents
<br />($2.50) nor more..than Fifty (1,50.00) Dollars for each offense.
<br />(16) The provisions of this section shall apply to parking only between
<br />the hours of 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. and on days other than Sundays.
<br />(17) This ordinance shall be come effective at 8:00 otclock a.m. on
<br />Saturday, July 8th, 1939-
<br />(18) If any part of this section shall be adjudged invalid or uncon-
<br />stitutional, such adjudication shall not affect the validity of the section
<br />as a whole or of any provision, or part thereof not adjudged invalid or un-
<br />constitutional.
<br />On and after the effective time and date of this ordinance, all ordinances or parts
<br />thereof in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.
<br />Adopted by the Council July 7, 1939•
<br />Ayes: 1Ir. uleason, Dr. Haden, Mr. Huff, and
<br />1-7 Mr. Jessup
<br />Noes: None.
<br />Clerk President
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