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ORDINANCE NO. 477
ORDINANCE OF CITY OF SOUTH MIAMI, FLORIDA., AUTHORIZINQ CI MANAGER TO ESTABLISHIPARkING METER ZONES, AND
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PARKING TIME LIMITS, PROVIDING MANNER OF 'INSTALLING
METERS, MARKING SPACES, AND MANNER OF PARKING;; PROVIDING
FOR FEES; PROHIBITING USE OF SLUGS; ETC.; PROHIBITING
DDFACINGG METERS, ETC.• , PRO FOR PENALTIES AND
ENFORCEMENT.
BE IT_` 0PbAINED BY -THE. MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL.. OF CITY OF
SOUTH -MIAMI; -PLORIDA_ .
1. The City Manager is hereby vested with the authority to-
establish zones-in the -offstreet_parking. lots and parking facilities
owned or operated by the City, such zones to be known as parking
meter zones; in such parking meter zones,.- .the.City Manager shall
install or cause to be installed parkin :g meters and designate park-
ing meter spaces, and -to fix the time limitations for parking in
such zones and parking meter spaces.
2. Meters installed in parking meter zones in the City shall
be placed at the curb immediately adjacent to the individual park-
ing spaces herein'-described. Each parking meter shall be placed or
set in such a manner as to indicate by signal tha the parking space
adjacent to such meter shall or shall not be legally in use. Each
parking meter shall be installed and set to display, upon the deposit
of one or more designated coins in United States currency therein,
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a signal indicating legal parking for that period of time conforming
to the.limit of parking which has been or -may be established for that
particular area or zone of the pavement �b� which said parking meter
is installed. Each meter shall also be so arranged that upon the
expiration of the legal parking time, the meter shall indicate by a
mechanical operation and a display of the proper signal that the
lawful parking period has expired.
3. The City Manager shall cause to have painted or placed in
the City, lines or markings upon the curb or upon the pavement ad-
jacent to each parking meter for the purpose of designating the
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parking space for which said meter is to be used, and any vehicle
parked alongside of or next to any parking meter shall park within
the lines or markings so established. It shall be unlawful to park
any'vehicle across any such line or marking, or to park any vehicle
the overall length of which exceeds twenty feet, in ahy-'1Pa`r'k i fig
meter parking- space.
4. Whenever ahy'parking space in any park ih'g"'?m ter.4-.
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City shall be parallel with the adjacent curb or ei , d6sralk, any - vehicle
parked in said parkiffig space shall be parked in such manner that the
foremost'piDrti6n of such vehicle shall be alongside of and nearest
to the parking meter; when --parki6g 'space in any parking meter zone
shall be diagonal to the curb or sidewalk, any vehicle parked in such
parking space shaft be parked with the foremost portion of such vehicle
directed at and neatest to such meter.
5. When any vehiclb shall be parked in any space alongside of
or next to any space in the City in which a parking meter is located,
the operator of such vehicle shall immediately, upon entering the
said parking space, deposit or cause to be de''posited in such parking
meter a coin or coins in United States'currency, in such denomination
as described on the parking meter and the parking space may then be
lawfully occupied by such vehicle during the period of parking time
which has been prescribed for that portion of the pavement in,which
the parking space is located. If any vehicle shall remain parked in
any parking meter space beyond the pakki6§'time limit fixed for such
space, the parking meter shall display a sign or signal indicating
illegal parking, and in that event such vehicle shall be considered to
have parked overtime and in excess of the period of legal parking
time: The parking of said vehicle overtime or beyond the period
of legal parking time in any such portion of the pavement where such
meter is located shall be unlawful. It is hereby provided, however,
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that the placing of coins in parking meters shall not be required on
SUnda)(s--Irfar Vetween the Wurs of six o'clock P. M. and seven -o'clock
A.M., unles otherwise indicated on such meters, or otherwise indicated
by-appropriate signs.
6. It shall be unlawful for any person to deposit or cause to
be deposited in any parking meter in the City any coin for the pur-
pose of enlarging or extending the pa"r'kihg time for any vehicle
b6yond that legal parking time which has been established for the
parking space immediately adjacent to which such parking meter shall
have been placed.
7. It shall be unlawflk'to d6poslit or cause to be deposited
in any parking meter in this City and slug, device or metallic sub-
stitilte for United States coin.
8. It shall be unlawful for any y-person to deface, injure,
tamper with, open or wilfully break, destroy or impair the usefulness
of any parking meter install-ed under the provisions of this chapter.
9. All.coins required to be deposited in parking meters as
provided herein are hereby levied and assessed as fees to provide
for the proper regulation and control of traffic, upon the public
pavements, and to cover the cost of the supervision, inspection,
installation, operation, maintenance, control and use of the parking
spaces and parking meters described herein, together with the cost
of supervising and d regulating the parking of vehicles in the parking
meter zones created.
10. It shall be unlawful for any person to countenance, cause,
permit, or suffer any vehicle registered in his name to stop, stand
or park in any metered parking zone in violation of any of the
provisions of this ordinance.
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11. It shall be the duty of the police officers of this City to
enforce the provisions of this Chapter and'they are hereby vested
with all power and authority necessary for the enforcement thereof;
12. Any person violating any of the provisions of this Section
may be served with a summons for such V'iolat'ion as herekhaf ter pro- -
vi'ded. The summons as-used herein shall be a written noticeissued
and served by City police officers to a person who shall'be ordered
thereby to personally appear at Police Headquarters at a specified
time to answ�.r to a violation of the Chapter stated thereon and to
make sati'sfaction'for_sucii charge by paying a prescribed penalty fine
or'by having such 'charge transferred to the Municipal Court docket
for a hearing on such charge in Municipal Court. The summons herein
provided for shall have written t::ereon, the offense, time, place,
license tag number, description of the vehicle, the name and address
of "the offender if known, and such other information as the Chief of
Police deems necessary, together with instructions to appear at Police
Headquarters not later than the time specified thereon.
13. Any person who has been s®r-VAd'.with a summons and who shall
fail to appear at Police Headquarters within the time specified in
such summons may be arrested forthwith and tried in Municipal Court
and shall be subject to the penalty herein prescribed for the violation
chugged for such summons, together with any additional costs.
14. Police officers and clerks of this City, upon authorization
may accept, in behalf of the City, penalty fines, as described by
this ordinance. All such officers or clerks shall issue official city
receipts and deliver a receipt to all persons paying such fine.
15. Unless another penalty is expressly provided herein, every
person found guilty of a violation of any provision of this Ordinance
may be punished by imprisonment and/or fine, not in excess of the
punishment provided for in the City Charter.
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-16. The following scale of penalties is hereby fixed for traffic
violations listed in this Sec iOn for first, second or tiird' offenses,
respectively, when such person charged with a violation shall appear
at Police Headquarters and -plead guilty to the charge; provided, how-
ever, that the City may refuse to accept the payment of the fine under
the provisions of this Section for any violation set forth herein, for
which a summons shall have been issued and may require the offender to
appear in the Mun c pal Court for trial an such violations:
SECTION FIRST OFFENSE SECOND`OFFENSE THIRD OFFENSE
3 and -10
Overparking $1.00 $3.00 $5.00
4 and 5
Improper Parking $2.00 $5.00 $10.00
17. This Ordinance is hereby declared to be an emergency measure
on the gounds of urgent public need'for preservation of 'peace, health
and safety within tae City of South Miami, Florida; and the require-
ment of reading this Ordinance at two separate meetings is hereby
dispensed.
18. If any section or provision'of this Ordinance should be held
invalid 'for any reason whatsoever, such invalidity shall not affect
the remaining portions of this Ordinance, which shall remain in full
force and eff'ct, and the provisions of this Ordinance are declared
to be severable.
19. It is the intention and it is hereby ordained that the pro-
visions of this Ordinance shall be made a part of the Code of Ordinances
of the City of South Miami, Florida, and the Sections of this Ordinan ^e
may be renumbered to accomplish such intention.
PASSED AND ADOPTED THIS 5th DAY OF FEBRU l�A- 1963.
Presiding Officer, City Council
ATTEST:
City Lierk
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