East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1956-07-05


One and one-half U1s) hours
upon the deposit of five-cent coin,
Three (3) hours upon the deposit
of two (2) five-cent coins or one
Q) ten-cent coin.
A one-cent coin shall not be a
lawful deposit in a parking meter
and shall not entitle the person
depositing such coin to parking
time in parking meter space.
SECTION Z: Operation of Park
ing Meters. Except for the periods
during which parking is entirely
prohibited pursuant to Section
6(b) of this ordinance and 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,
police sign, or traffic control sign
or signal, when any vehicle shall
be parked in any parking meter
space, the operator of such vehicle
shall, upon entering said parking
meter space, Immediately deposit or
cause to be deposited in said parking
meter such proper coin or coins in
lawful money Of the United States
as is required by this ordinance for
such parking meter, and failure to
deposit such proper coin or coins
shall constitute a violation Of this
ordinance. Upon the deposit Of such
coin or coins, the parking meter
space may be lawfully occupied by
such vehicle during the period of
time for which coins have been
deposited pursuant to Section 6(c)
Of this ordinance, but not to exceed
the maximum time determined by
the Chief of Police for such parking
meter space. Provided, however. that
any person parking vehicle in q
parking meter SPACE adjacent to q
parking meter which indicates that
unused time has been left in the
meter by the previous occupant of
such space shall not be required to
deposit additional coins so long as
his occupancy of said space does
not exceed the indicated unused
time. If said vehicle shall remain
parked in any such parking meter
space after the parking meter time
limit determined for such parking
meter space has expired, and if the
meter shall indicate such illegal
parking, then, and in that event,
such vehicle shall be considered as
parking overtime and beyond the
period of legal parking time, and
such parking will be deemed a vio-
lation of this ordinance.
SECTION 8. Violations. It shall
be unlawful and a violation of the
provisions of this ordinance for
any person:
(a) To cause, allow, premit or
suffer any vehicle to be parked
overtime or beyond the maximum
period of legal parking time estab-
lished for any parking meter space
as herein described, or to deposit
in any parking meter any coin for
the purpose of parking beyond the
maximum legal parking time for the
particular parking meter space.
(b) To park any vehicle in any
parking meter space adjacent to any
parking meter while said meter is
displaying q signal indicating ille-
gal parking without immediately
depositing in such parking meter
the coin or coins provided by this
ordinance.
(c) To park any vehicle across
any line or marking of a parking
meter space, or in such position
that the vehicle shall not be entirely
within the area designated by such
lines or markings.
(d) To deface, injure, tamper
with, open or willfully break,
destroy or impair the usefulness of
any parking meter installed under
the provisions of this ordinance.
(e) To deposit or insert or cause
to be deposited or inserted in any
parking meter any matter or sub
stance other than lawful coins of
the United States of America,
whether or not such matter or sub
stance is inserted or deposited as a
substitute for such lawful coins, or
to perform any act other than the
deposit of such coins for the purpose
Of securing or increasing the meter
indication Of legal parking time.
(f) To fail to comply with any
other provision of this ordinance.
SECTION g: Prima Facie Evi-
dence of Unlawful Parking. In any
proceeding for violation of this ordi-
nance, the license or registration
plate on a motor vehicle shall con-
stitute in evidence a prima facie
presumption that the owner of such
motor vehicle was the person who
parked or placed such vehicle at the
point where such violation occurred.
SECTION 10: Control of Park
ing Meters. The Director of
Finance shall have charge of the
collection of and accounting for the
moneys deposited in parking meters
or paid for parking permits. The
Chief of Police shall be responsible
for the regulation, control, opera
ton, maintenance and use of park
ing meters.
SECTION Il: Penalty. Any per-
son who shall violate or fail to COM
ply with any of the provisions of
this ordinance shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor and shall
be punished by a fine of not to
exceed One Hundred Dollars
(S100.00), or Imprisonment for not
to exceed thirty 500 days, or both
at the discretion of the court.
Notwithstanding the above provi-
sions of this section, any person who
has violated any of the provisions
of this ordinance, upon executing
and filing with the Clerk of the
M,,n;ninnl pnl;cn Court Of the City