§ 26-166. Establishment of pay by cell phone.

(a)

Where necessary for the public convenience, necessity, and safety, the POD is authorized to establish a Pay by Cell Phone option for parking in such parking zones as may be designated by the POD. The POD shall, through appropriate markings or signage, notify the vehicle operator as to which parking spaces allow Pay by Cell Phone and the telephone number and/or website to access the Pay by Cell Phone service.

(b)

When any motor vehicle shall be parked in any space which allows Pay by Cell Phone the owner, operator or driver of the motor vehicle shall, upon entering the parking space, immediately pay through the Pay by Cell Phone program the amount as may be designated by the markings or signage designated to serve the parking space, and the parking space may be used by the motor vehicle during the lesser of the legal parking limit or such part of the legal parking limit as shall be allocated for the amount paid.

(c)

The parking of any motor vehicle for longer than the legal period of time as may be allotted for the amount paid by Pay by Cell Phone shall be unlawful and a violation of this section. It shall be unlawful for any person to cause, allow, permit or suffer any motor vehicle of which he or she is the driver or which shall be registered or licensed in his or her name to be parked beyond the lawful or legal period of time permitted by subsection (b) of this section or beyond the period of time that may be allotted to the motor vehicle by the amount paid by Pay by Cell Phone.

(d)

The City Council may, by resolution, exempt or waive the requirement for the payment of authorized legal tender by Pay by Cell Phone during certain days or certain hours, or in certain locations as may be provided in the resolution.

(e)

Each motor vehicle shall be parked wholly within the parking space for which the markings or signage for Pay by Cell Phone show the parking privilege has been granted.

(Ord. No. 997-G, § 2, 10-7-2010)