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AN ORDINANCE AME~'DING 0RDI'MANCE N0. 355 NEW
SERIES 0]? THE CITY OF BAKERSFIELD, C0!~!MONLY
KNOWN AS THE "TRAFFIC 0RDINAi~-CE'' BY ADDING
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A NEW SECTION THEET0 TO BE KNOVd~ AND NUI~'BERED
AS SECTION 40 3/4.
BE IT 0'RDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BAKERSFIELD,
as follows:
SECTION 1.
That Ordinance No. 355 New Series of the City of Bakersfield,
commonly known as the "Traffic Ordinance", and adopted on the 14th day
of October, 1930, is hereby mended by adding a new section thereto
to be known and numbered as follows:
SECTION 40 3/4. Parking Meters.
1. For the purpose of this ordinance the term "parking
meters" as used-herein shall mean and include any device which, when
the recording dial thereof is set in motion by the deposit of any
coin or equivalent thereof, shall register the time that any vehicle
is parked adjacent to said parking meter.
2. The City Manager of the City of Bakersfield is hereby
authorized to establish parking meter zones, each of which zones shall
be of sufficient size to permit the parking of only one vehicle, either
where parallel parking or angle parking is permitted, on any street on
which the time limitations have heretofore been or may hereafter be'
provided by ordinance of the City of Bakersfield, and to place upon
the sidewalk adjacent to said parking zone a device known as a "parking
meter" as hereinbefore defined, which will, upon the deposit of a five
cent coin, lawful money of the United States, set the mechanical equip-
ment of said device in motion so that said device will accurately
measure, in minutes, the period of time during which said vehicle may
park in said parking meter zone without violatin~ th~ ordinance or
ordinances regulating parking upon the street on which said parking
meter zone is established. Such parking meter shall also be constructed
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and mechanically equipped so that the same will, upon the expira-
tion of the period of time, commencing with the deposit of said
five cents in coin, and ending with the expiration of the period
of time that the parking of a vehicle in said zone is permitted,
display a flag, sign or signal which will indicste that the per-
mitted time for the parking of said vehicle, as provided by the
ordinance regulating parking in the block within which block
said parking meter is situated has expired.
3. Any vehicle parked in any parking space in any parking
meter zone shall be parked within the lines marked on the street for
such parking space as provided hereinafter.
4. The City Manager shall place or cause to be placed
lines or marks on the curb, or on the street about or along the side
of each parking meter, to designate the parking space for which said
meter is to be used, and it shall be unlawful for any person to park
any vehicle across any such line or mark, or to park such vehicle in
such a way that the same shall not be within the area so designated
by such lines or markings.
6. No person shall park, or stop, any vehicle in any
parking meter zone, as established under authority of this ordinance,
except as permitted by this ordinance, without depositing in the
parking meter adjacent to said space a five cent coin, lawful money
of the United States, nor shall any registered owner or any operator
of any vehicle permit said vehicle to remain stopped or parked in
any parking meter zone beyond the time permitted by ordinance for
the parking of vehicles in the block in which said parking meter
zone is situated.
6. Whenever any person shall drive or conduct any vehicle
into any parking meter zone, as established under authority of this
ordinance, or to which any parking meter is adjacent, or for which
any parking meter has been set, erected or established, to remain
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stopped for any purpose except to receive or discharge passengers
or merchandise as permitted by this ordinance, or within the hours
during which free parking is permitted by this ordinance, he shall
forthwith deposit in said meter a five cent coin, lawful money of
the United States, and on the deposit of said coin said vehicle
may remain stopped or parked in said spacer or the period of time
permitted by the ordinance regulating the parking of vehicles in
the block within which said parking meter zone is situated.
V. It shall be unlawful for any person to deposit or
cause to be deposited in a parking meter a five cent coin for the
purpose of extending the parking time beyond the time fixed by
the ordinance of the City of Bakersfield for parking in the parking
space alongside of or next to which said parking meter is placed.
8. It shall be unlawful to deposit or cause to be deposited
in any parking meter any slug, device or substitute for a five cent
coin of the United States.
9. It shall be unlawful for any unauthorized person to
deface, injure, tamper with, open or wilfully break, destroy or
impair the usefulness of any parking meter installed under the terms
of this ordinance.
10. The five cent coins required to be deposited in the
meter as herein provided are hereby declared to be necessary to
compensate the City for the expense incurred in furnishing facilities,
equipment, supervision, and regulation required by such parking, and
is found to be a reasonable fee for the privilege, voluntarily exer-
cised by owners, operators, managers or drivers of a vehicle, or
parking said vehicle within said parking space, in conformity with
the provisions of this ordinance.
ll. All coins deposited in any parking meter shall be
collected regularly by a person designated by the City Managere, the
City of Bakersfield so to do, and upon such collection said collector
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will immediately deposit the coin containers from said parking meters
with the City Treasurer, who shall thereupon open same and count the
money in the presence of said designated collector and issue his
receipt for same, to be immediately filed with the City Auditor by
such collector.
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I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was passed and
adopted by the Council of the City of Bakersfield at a regular meeting
thereof held on the/~ay of ~ , 193V, by the
following vote:
City Clerk of the
Council of the City of Bakersfield.
APPROVED by me this/.g~ay~ , 193V.
Y0 of the City of Bakersfield.