A. The public works director or their designee(s) may cause parking meters, parking payment centers, and/or mobile payment methods to be installed and maintained in all parking rate zones.

B. Parking meters shall be installed upon the curb or sidewalk area immediately adjacent to each parking space. Each meter shall be placed in such manner as to show or display by a sign or signal that the parking space adjacent thereto is or is not legally in use.

C. 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 of 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 the street upon which the meter is placed. Each meter shall also be so arranged that upon the expiration of the legal parking time, it will indicate by a mechanical operation and by proper signal that the lawful parking period has expired.

D. Parking payment centers shall be installed upon the sidewalk area within reasonable distance to the paid parking spaces which the payment center manages.

E. Each parking payment center shall be set to display the applicable parking rates and instructions on use of the payment center. (Ord. 1699 § 3, 2021: Ord. 1628 § 37, 2016; prior code § 3213.1)