§ 24-62. Tampering with meter or tire marking; enforcement.

(a)

No person shall deface, injure, tamper with, open or willfully break, destroy or impair the usefulness of any parking meter.

(b)

No person, firm or corporation shall place any sack or covering over, upon or around any parking meter head, remove any parking meter head, or otherwise indicate or show that the said meter is inoperative or inapplicable without proper authority to do so.

(c)

No person shall intentionally or willfully tamper with or remove marks placed on vehicle tires by Authorized Officers for the purpose of parking time limitation enforcement until such time that the vehicle is moved from the parking space with no intention of returning to and/or reoccupying the space.

(d)

No person shall remove any bag, sign or other official marking of any kind from a parking meter when the bag, sign or other official marking has been placed there by authorized officers and when the bag, sign or other official marking designates that the meter is scheduled for maintenance, is out of service or otherwise provides for no parking in the designated area for any reason.

(e)

No person shall make a payment on any expired parking meter when the parking space for that meter is occupied by a vehicle not owned by that person and when that vehicle has received a visible parking citation.

(Ord. No. O-2014-44, § 2, 12-16-14; Ord. No. O-2016-31, § 5, 11-15-16 )