(A) No person may park a vehicle upon any roadway for a consecutive period of time longer than indicated by official signs installed to limit the parking.

(B) Except during the periods hereafter fixed and except in a period of emergency determined by an officer of the Police Department, or in compliance with the directions of a police officer or traffic control sign or signal, when any vehicle shall be parked in any parking space regulated by a parking meter, the operator of such vehicle shall, upon entering the parking meter space, immediately deposit or cause to be deposited in the appropriate parking meter the proper coin of the United States or deposit appropriate fee by use of an authorized credit or debit card as is required for the parking meter and as is designated by proper directions on the parking meter or an adjacent official City sign, and when required by the directions on the parking meter or an adjacent official City sign; the operator of such vehicle, after the deposit of the proper coin or coins, shall also set in operation the timing mechanism on such parking meter in accordance with directions properly appearing on the parking meter or an adjacent official City sign. Failure to make the proper deposit or to properly set the timing mechanism shall constitute a violation of this section. Upon the deposit of appropriate fee (and the setting of the timing mechanism in operation when so required) the parking space may be lawfully occupied by a vehicle during the period of time which has been prescribed for the part of the street in which the parking space is located. If a vehicle remains parked in any such parking space beyond the parking time limit set for the parking space, and if the parking meter indicates such illegal parking, then the vehicle shall be considered as parking overtime and beyond the period of legal parking time, and shall be deemed a violation of this section. (Ord. 189 § 1, passed 8-11-2004; Ord. 309 § 4, passed 10-26-2011. Code 1982 § 10-3-18. Code 2012 § 72.36.)