HomeMy Public PortalAbout1986_02_12_O007The Town of Leesburg in Virginia
ORDINANCE NO.
AN ORDINANCE:
PRESENTED February 12~ 1986
86-0-7 ADOPTED February 12~ 1986
AMENDING SECTION 10-176 OF THE TOWN CODE REGARDING CHARGES
FOR PARKING AT METER SPACES
ORDAINED by the Council of the Town of Leesburg as follows:
SECTION I. Section 10-176 of the Town Code, titled "Deposit of
Coin; Occupancy Space, etc.", is hereby amended to read as follows:
Section 10-176. Deposit of Coin; Occupancy of Metered Space; etc.
(a) The owner or operator of a vehicle, upon entering a parking
meter space marked as provided in this division with his vehicle, during
the time parking meters are in operation, as provided by Section 10-175,
shall immediately deposit a coin or combination of coins of the United
States in the parking meter situated at the side of the parking meter
space so entered and shall operate the parking meter according to the
instructions thereon. Failure to comply with such requirements shall
be unlawful.
(b) Upon the deposit of a five-cent coin, ten-cent coin or 25-cent
coin and placing the parking meter in operation, the parking meter space
in question may be lawfully occupied during the period of time prescribed
on the parking meter legend for the particular amount deposited.
(c) Parking meters located where two-hour maximum parking is permitted
when properly operated shall be so adjusted that initial or additional
five-cent or ten-cent coins may be deposited at any time throughout the
two-hour period, as long as the two-hour limit is not exceeded by any
one vehicle occupying the same space. The deposit of each five-cent
coin shall permit the vehicle to be parked for a period of 15 minutes;
and the deposit of each ten-cent coin shall permit the vehicle to be
parked for a period of 30 minutes.
(d) The parking meters in parking lots owned by the town, upon
which parking meter spaces have been marked and parking meters erected,
shall require a deposit of five cents for a period of 15 minutes or a
deposit of 10 cents for a period of 30 minutes or 25 cents for a period
of 75 minutes where permitted.
(e) Parking meters located where 30-minute maximum parking is permitted
when properly operated shall be so adjusted that a deposit of a five
cent coin shall permit the vehicle to be parked for a period of 15 minutes.
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AMENDING SECTION 10-176 OF THE TOWN CODE REGARDING CHARGES FOR PARKING
AT METER SPACES
(f) Parking meters located where 15-minute maximum parking is permitted
when properly operated shall be so adjusted that a deposit of a five-cent
coin shall permit the vehicle to be parked for a period of 15 minutes.
(g) It shall be unlawful for the operator of a vehicle to park
such vehicle, or to permit such vehicle to remain parked, during daylight
hours, except Sunday and national holidays, in areas controlled by parking
meters on streets in the town (excluding the town parking lot, except
where the meter indicates otherwise) for a period longer than two hours
from the time the vehicle is so parked in any such parking meter zone.
(h) Parking meters located pursuant to Subsections 10-171(7), 10-171(8)
and 10-171(9) where two-hour maximum parkin~ is permitted shall be so
adjusted that initial or additional five cent, ten cent or twenty five
cent coins may be deposited at any time throughout the two-hour period,
as lon~ as the two-hour limit is not exceeded by any one vehicle occupying
the same space. The deposit of each five cent coin shall permit the
vehicle to be parked for a period of 7.5 minutes; deposit of each ten
cent coin shall permit the vehicle to be parked for a period of fifteen
minutes; and the deposit of each twenty-five cent coin .shall permit the vehicle
to be parked for a period of forty-five minutes.
SECTION II. This ordinance shall be in effect upon passage and
all ordinances and resolutions in conflict herewith are repealed.
PASSED this 12th day of February , 1986.
R la, Mayor
Town of Leesburg
ATTE ST:
Clerk o fiouncil