§ 21-37.1. Use and operation of parking meters in off-street parking lots.

When parking meters are installed in any of the off-street parking lots owned or operated by the Town of Chapel Hill, the owners, operators, managers or drivers of any vehicle desiring to park in any parking space designated at such meter, shall upon entering the parking meter space immediately deposit or cause to be deposited in such meter such proper coin or coins of the United States, or authorized token as is required for such parking.

When required by the directions on the meter, the operator of such vehicle, after the deposit of the proper coin, or token, shall also set in operation the timing mechanism. Failure shall constitute a violation of this article. Upon the deposit of such coin, coins, or token, and the setting of the timing mechanism in operation when so required, the parking space may be lawfully occupied by such during the period of time for which said coin, coins or token have been deposited, provided that any person placing a vehicle in a parking meter space adjacent to a meter which indicates that unused time has been left in the meter by the previous occupancy of the space, does not exceed the indicated unused parking time without the deposit of additional coins. If such vehicle shall remain in any such parking space beyond the time limit set on the meter as above prescribed, 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 legal parking time, and such vehicle shall be deemed a violation of this article.

(Ord. No. O-74-8, § 1, 2-4-74; Ord. No. 86-7-14/O-6, § 1)