§ 54-132. Functions of board of public works and safety.

(a)

The board of public works and safety is hereby authorized and directed to immediately establish zones to be known as off-street parking meter zones.

(b)

The board of public works and safety is directed to provide for the purchase, acquiring, installation, operation, maintenance, supervision, regulation and use of the parking meters provided for subsection (d) in this section and to maintain such meters in a good, workable condition, and is vested with the power and authority to enter into a contract of purchase for such parking meters.

(c)

The board of public works and safety is authorized and directed to have marked off individual parking spaces in the parking zones, designated by lines painted or durably marked. At each such marked off space, it shall be unlawful to park any vehicle in such a way that such vehicle shall not be entirely within the limits of the designated space.

(d)

In parking meter zones, the board of public works and safety shall cause parking meters to be installed immediately adjacent to the parking spaces provided for in subsection (c) of this section. Each parking meter shall be set so as to display the signal showing the legal parking upon the deposit of the appropriate coins, lawful money of the United States of America, for the period of time prescribed by this section. Each parking meter shall be arranged so that, upon the expiration of the lawful time limit, it will indicate by a proper signal that the lawful parking period has expired, 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 penalties provided for in section 54-5

(e)

It shall be the duty of the board of public works and safety to provide for the regular collection of the money deposited in such parking meters, and it shall be the duty of such persons so designated to remove from the parking meters the coins deposited in such meters and to deliver such coins to the clerk-treasurer of the city.

(Code 1974, § 14-52(b)—(e), (k))