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(b) The Director of Public Safety shall be responsible for the regulation, control, <br />maintenance and use of such parking meters. The Director shall, from time to time, <br />establish a Municipal Parking Schedule designating the location of parking meters and <br />the fee per unit of time to be paid by the operator of any vehicle occupying a <br />designated parking space controlled by a parking meter. Said Schedule shall be filed <br />with the Clerk of Council. If Council fails to reject said Schedule within sixty days, said <br />Schedule shall become effective. <br />(c) Each device shall be so set as to display a signal showing legal parking upon <br />the deposit of the appropriate fee as established in the Municipal Parking Schedule. <br />Each device shall be arranged so that upon the expiration of the lawful time limit it will <br />indicate, by a proper visible signal, that the lawful parking period has expired. At such <br />time the right of such vehicle to occupy such space shall cease and the operator, <br />owner, possessor or manager thereof shall be subject to the penalties hereinafter <br />provided. (Ord. 85-92. Passed 12-7-92.) <br />355.04 OPERATION OF METERS. <br />Except in a period of emergency determined by an officer of the Divisions of Fire or <br />Police, or in compliance with the directions of a police officer or traffic control sign or <br />signal, when any vehicle is parked in any parking space alongside or next to which a <br />parking meter is located, the operator of such vehicle shall, upon entering the parking <br />meter space, immediately deposit or cause to be deposited in the meter such proper <br />coin of the United States as is required for such parking meter and as is designated by <br />proper directions on the meter, and when required by the directions on the meter, the <br />operator of such vehicle, after the deposit of the proper coin or coins, shall also set in <br />operation the timing mechanism on such meter in accordance with directions properly <br />appearing thereon, and failure to deposit such proper coin, and to set the timing <br />mechanism in operation when so required, shall constitute a violation of this section. <br />Upon the deposit of such coin (and the setting of the timing. mechanism in operation <br />when so required) the parking space may be lawfully occupied by such vehicle during <br />the period of time which has been prescribed for the part of the street in which the <br />parking space is located. Any person placing a vehicle in a parking meter space <br />adjacent to a meter which indicates that unused time has been left in the meter by the <br />previous occupant of the space shall not be required to deposit a coin so long as his <br />occupancy of such space does not exceed the indicated unused parking time. If such <br />vehicle remains parked in any such parking space .beyond the .parking time limit set for <br />such parking space, and if the meter indicates such illegal parking, then such vehicle <br />shall be considered as parking overtime and beyond the period of legal parking time, <br />and such parking shall be deemed a violation of this section. (Ord. 4830. Passed 4-21- <br />52. ) <br />355.05 PARKING TIME LIMITS. <br />(a) Parking or standing a vehicle in a designated space within the parking meter <br />zones, as established by Section 355.01, shall be lawful for any period upon the deposit <br />25 <br />