§ 21-138.06. Parking in metered spaces.

(a)

It is unlawful for any person to park any vehicle in any metered parking space without paying the fee designated on the meter or causing the fee to be paid.

(b)

It is unlawful for any person to permit a vehicle to remain in a metered parking space for a time longer than that covered by the amount paid.

(c)

It is unlawful for any person to deface, injure, tamper with, open, break, destroy or impair the usefulness of any parking meter. It is an affirmative defense to this subsection that the person is authorized by the authority that erected the parking meter to alter it.

(d)

It is unlawful for any person to deposit anything other than a coin in any parking meter.

(e)

Proof that a vehicle parked in a metered parking space is registered to a person creates a presumption that the vehicle was parked there by the person to whom the vehicle is registered on the date the vehicle was found in the parking space.

(f)

Any person violating or failing to comply with any provision of this section shall be fined upon conviction, not less than one dollar ($1.00) nor more than two hundred dollars ($200.00).

(Ord. No. 6642, §§ 1, 3, 7-6-95)

State law reference

Penalty for ordinance violations, V.T.C.A., Local Government Code § 54.001; criminal mischief, V.T.C.A., Penal Code § 28.03; theft of services, V.T.C.A., Penal Code § 31.04.