HomeMy Public PortalAbout1986_11_12_O052ORDINANCE NO.
AN ORDINANCE:
PRESENTED November t2~ 1986
86-0-52 ADOPTED November 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 or three-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 or three-hour period, as long as the
two-hour or three-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; and the deposit of
each ten-cent coin shall permit the vehicle to be parked for a period
of 15 minutes; and the deposit of each twenty-five cent coin shall permit
the vehicle to be parked for a period of forty-five minutes.
(d) Parking meters located where ten-hour maximum parking is permitted
when properly operated shall be so adjusted that the deposit of each
ten-cent coin shall permit the vehicle to be parked for a period of thirty-
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minutes and the deposit of each twenty-five~coin shall permit the vehicle
to be parked for a period of seventy-five minutes.
(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 Saturday, Sunday and national holidays, in areas controlled
by parking meters on streets in the town or parking lots operated by
the town for a period longer than the maximum time indicated on the meter
from the time the vehicle is so parked in any such parking meter zone.
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 November , 1986.
Charles J. Williams, Vice-Mayor
Town of Leesburg
ATTEST:
Clerk of.~uncil