§ 71.056. PARKING METER ZONES; INSTALLATION OF METERS.

(A)

The City is hereby authorized to establish by resolution certain sections of the City public right of way to be designated as parking meter zones. These zones may be subsequently be amended by the City Manager, who may invite comments and recommendations from the Parking Management Advisory Board (PMAB) and the Delray Beach Downtown Development Authority (DDA) before making any amendments thereto.

(B)

The City is hereby authorized to install, or have installed, parking meters for the parking spaces in parking meter zones.

(C)

Each parking meter zone shall provide signage to notify drivers of the required payment for that parking meter zone and the maximum length of allowable parking time.

(D)

Each parking meter installed in a parking meter zone shall indicate by proper legend the legal parking time established by the City, and when operated shall at all times indicate the balance of legal parking time, and at the expiration of the period shall indicate illegal or overtime parking.

(E)

For any parking space in a parking meter zone for which no meter is installed adjacent to the space, the City shall install signage in the area and visible from the space indicating that payment of the parking meter rates for that space shall be made by using parking meter technology, and indicating the procedure for using said technology.

(F)

When parking meter technology is in use, it shall notify the user and the parking enforcement officer of the legal parking time for which payment has been made and the balance of legal parking time.

(G)

Nothing in this section shall be construed as prohibiting the City Manager or his or her designee from temporarily restricting parking or allowing parking at no charge at spaces within parking meter zones based on special circumstances, including but not limited to emergencies, special events. construction, change in building uses, and actual usage of parking spaces in the zones.

(H)

No person shall move and repark a vehicle on either side of a street within the same block in order to avoid exceeding the parking meter time limits specified for either side of the street in that particular block.

(Ord. No. 07-18 , § 9, passed 6/5/18)

Editor's note

Ord. No. 07-18 , § 9, passed June 5, 2018, amended § 71.056 in its entirety to read as herein set out. Former § 71.056 pertained to designation of spaces; installation of meters and derived from Code 1980, § 26-65; and Ord. No. 21-81, passed April 21, 1981.