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- 28 50. Both sides of Chesterland Avenue from Madison Avenue south a distance of 100 feet. Section 10~-2. DESIGNATION OF ?ARKINC SPACES. The Director of Public Safety is hereby directed and authorized to mark off individual parking spaces in the parking zones designated and described in Section lO9-1 of this ordinance and in such other zones as may hereafter be established, said parking spaces to be designated by lines painted or durably marked on the curbing or surface of the street. At each space so marked off it shall be unlawful to park any vehicle in such a way that said vehicle shall not be entirely within the limits of the space so designated. Section 10~3. IhBTALIATION OF PARKING METERS. In said parking meter sones parking meters shall be installed upon the curb or sidewalk immediately adjacent to the parking spaces provided inSection 109-2 of this ordinance, said installation to be placed not more than two (2) feet from the curb nor more than four (4) feet from the front line of the parking space as indicated, aud the Director _of Public Safety shall be responsible for the regulation, control, operation, maintenance, and use of such parking meters. Each device shall be so set as to display a signal showi~ legal parking upon the deposit of the appropriate coin or coins, lawful money of the United States of America, for the period of time prescribed by this ordinanceo Each deviceshall be so arranged that upon the expiration of the lawful time 1i~it it will indicate by a prop~ visible signal that the lawful parkingperiod has ex- pired and in such cases the right of such vehicle to occupy such space shall cease and the operator, owner, possessor or manager thereof shall be subject to the penal- ties hereinafter provided. Section 102-4~ OPERATION OF PA~KING ~ETERS. Except in a period of emergency determined by an officer of the Fire or Police Department, or in compliance with the directions of a police officer or traffic control sign or signal, when any vehicle shall be p~rked in any parking space alongside or next to which a parking meter is located, the operator of such vehicle shall, upon entering the said parking meter space, immediately deposit or cause to be deposited in said meter such proper coin of the United States as is required for such parking meter ~ud as is designated by proper directions on the meter, and when required by the directions on the meter, the operator of such vehicle, after the deposit of the proper coin or coi~, shall also set in operation the timing mechanism on such meter in accordance with directions properly appearing thereon, and failure to deposit such proper coin, and to set the timing mechanism in opera~ion when so required, shall constitute a violation of this ordinance. Upon the deposit of such coin (and the setting of the t~mingmechanism in operation when so required) the parking space may be lawfully occupied by such vehicle during the period of time which has been prescribed for the part of the street in which said parking space is located, provided that any person placing a vehicle in a parkiD~ meter space adjacent to a meter which indicates that uuused time has been left in the meter by the previous occupant of the space shall not be required to deposit a coin so long as his occupancy of said space does not exceed the indicated unused parking time. If said vehiole shall remain parked in any such parking space beyond the parking time limit set for such parking space, and if the meter shall indicate such illegal parking, then, and in that event, such vehicle shall be con- sidered as parking overtime and beyond the period of legal parking time, and such parking shall be deemed a violation of this ordinance. Section 109-5. PARKING TIME LIMITS. (a) Parking or standing a vehicle in a designated space in a parking meter zone shall be lawful for twelve (12) minutes upon the deposit of one-cent coin, twenty-four (2~) minutes upon the deposit of two (2) one-cent coins, thirty-six (36) minutes upon the deposit of three (3) one-cent coins, forty-eight (48) minutes upon the deposit of four (4) one-cent coins, or sixty (60) minutes upon the deposit of five (5) one-cent coins or one (1) five-cent coin of the United States of America. (b) Said parking meters sha]~ be operated in said parking meter zones every day between the hours of eight o~clock A.M. and six o,clock P.M., except S~tndays and holidays; provided, however, that within the meanin~ of this ordinance the term ,,holiday" shall include the follo%~ng days only: the first day of January, the 30th day of May, the fourth of July, the first Monday in September, the twenty-fifth day of December, znd the day designated and set aside by the President of the United States as a day of Thanksgiving.