Sec. 20-101. Exceptions from Chapter requirements.
a.Vehicles owned or operated by the City may park in parking spaces without depositing coins in the parking meters adjacent thereto when such vehicles are being used in line of duty.
b.Commercial vehicles may park in parking spaces to load or unload merchandise without depositing coins in the parking meters adjacent thereto for a period not to exceed 15 minutes. Should any such commercial vehicle be parked longer than 15 minutes without depositing a coin, the owner or operator thereof will be given a notice provided for in Section 20-18 and the regular penalty imposed. No such commercial vehicle may so park in violation of the other provisions of this Chapter.
c.Commercial vehicles carrying heavy tolls, material or equipment, while actually engaged in construction or repair work upon the public street or property adjacent thereto may park in parking spaces without depositing any coins, upon special written permit therefor being issued by the Parking Facilities Supervisor or by renting appropriate parking meter hoods and placing them over the meter in the manner set forth in this Section.
d.The Parking Facilities Supervisor is authorized to issue parking meter zone hoods to person engaged in construction or repair work, and such persons are hereby authorized to use such hoods as provided in this Section.
1.Such hoods shall only be issued to those person engaged in construction or repair work upon the public street or property adjacent thereto, and only after due application, and after the Parking Facilities Supervisor is satisfied that the person has need for the hoods.
2.Application for the issuance of a parking meter zone hood shall be made on a form approved by the Parking Facilities Supervisor, and shall require the following information:
i.The name and address of the applicant and the firm he represents.
ii.The license numbers of the vehicles that will be using the hoods.
iii.A statement of the reasons for the need of such parking restriction.
iv.Such other relevant information as the Parking Facilities Supervisor may require.
3.The parking meter hood shall consist of:
i.A canvas hood of sufficient size to cover up the parking meter head.
ii.A locking device with the word “Construction Parking Only” printed on the hood in lettering as large as the space on the hood will permit.
4.The hoods shall be conspicuously numbered and shall be rented by the Parking Facilities Supervisor on the basis of $10 per fiscal year, starting with July 1, and if part of the fiscal year has past, then at the rate of $2.50 for each quarter of a year, or part of a quarter of the fiscal year remaining, otherwise at $2 per month. Upon revocation or surrender of the authority to use such hood, the hood shall be returned and no refunds shall be made.
5.The Parking Facilities Supervisor may revoke the authority granted under this Section to use such hood for any of the following reasons:
i.When the person has failed to pay the fee as provided in this Section.
ii.When the Parking Facilities Supervisor is satisfied that the circumstances no longer require the existence of such authority.
iii.When the person is found to be using the hood for other purposes than to fulfill the need for which the authority to use the hood was granted.
6.The person authorized to use such parking meter hood shall place such hood over the head of the parking meter with the lettering facing the street and shall lock the lock provided on the hood, and shall only place or allow such hood to remain on the parking meter during such times as they are engaged in construction or repair work upon the public street, or the property adjacent thereto.
7.No person shall cause, allow, permit or suffer any vehicle operated or controlled by him to be parked in any parking space within a parking meter zone adjacent to which a parking meter is established while a parking meter hood is properly in place on the head of the parking meter, unless such parking is while actually engaged in construction or repair work upon the public street or property adjacent thereto.