LEGISLATIVE DRAFT
HBMC CHAPTER 10
Chapter 10.04.055
10.04.055 Director of Community & Library Services
The Director of Community & Library Services shall be responsible for administering the on-street parking meter zones and the off-street City parking lots.
10.04.086 Peak Season
"Peak season" shall mean from 5:00 6:00 a.m. the Saturday before Memorial Day through 12:00 a.m. the day after Labor Day.
10.04.090 Parking Meter
"Parking meter" shall mean any single-spaced parking meter, multiple space parking meter, pay station, or any other equipment installed by the Director of Community & Library Services for the collection of payment to park in any designated metered parking space either in any off-street City pay parking lot or any on-street parking meter zone.
10.04.115 Payment
"Payment" shall mean any method of remittance authorized or approved by the Director of Community & Library Services.
10.50.020 Payment of Charges Required.
A. The City Council shall establish by Resolution the fees, rates and charges for vehicle parking at all off-street City pay parking lots. Collection of such fees, rates, and charges shall be made through authorized payment methods including mobile payment applications, digital platforms, parking meters, attendants, or other City-approved systems. Parking meters or attendants may collect the fees, rates, and charges.
B. No person shall park or leave standing any vehicle upon any off-street City pay parking lot at any time without payment of the fees, rates and charges established for the use of the lot of Resolution of the City Council.
C. All fees, rates and charges for parking at any off-street City pay parking lot shall be paid in advance in money of the United States of America, except as otherwise provided by validation agreement.
D. No person shall park or leave standing any vehicle in violation of any properly noticed curfew as established by the City Manager of the Director of Community & Library Services.
10.50.030 Validation Agreement -- Authorization
A. The City Manager or the Director of Community & Library Services may enter into written agreements with any person or legal entity to provide for validation of parking in any off-street City pay parking lot.
B. The charges such person or legal entity pays shall be in accordance with the schedule of fees, rates and charges for non-validated parking established by Resolution of the City Council.
10.56.030 Parking Revenues from Metered Zones Cellection of Ceins Frem Meters
It shall be the duty of the Director of Finance to designate some person or persons to make regular collections of the money deposited in parking meters, and to deliver the money to the Director of Finance. The City Treasurer may designate an employee to receive and account for all parking revenues.
10.56.040 Parking Revenues Coins-Placed in Meter Fund.
It is the duty of the Director of Finance City Treasurer to account for and process all on-street parking meter zone money and to deliver the money to the City Treasurer who shall place it in a special fund to be known as the "parking meter fund," which shall be used exclusively for the purposes specified in Section 10.56.060
10.56.060 Use of Proceeds.
The money paid to parking meters in the on-street parking meter zones is levied and assessed as a fee to provide for the proper regulation, control and inspection of traffic upon the public streets, and to cover the cost of supervising, regulating and inspecting the parking of vehicles in the zones, the cost of placing and maintaining lines or markings, designating parking spaces in the zones, the cost of the purchase, supervision, protection, inspection, installation, operation, maintenance, control and use of the parking payment collection devices and/or payment instruction signs meters installed hereunder, and the acquisitions by purchase or lease, improvement, operation, maintenance, repair and replacement of all parking facilities on streets; and the special f und in which such fees shall be devoted exclusively to those purposes.
10.56.080 Records of Violations
The Police Chief shall keep an account of and report the number of each parking meter which indicates that the vehicle occupying the parking space adjacent to such parking meter is or has been parked in violation of any of the provisions of this chapter, the date and hour of such violation, the make and state license number of such vehicle, and any other facts a knowledge of which is necessary to a thorough understanding of the circumstances attending such violation.
The Police Department shall maintain records of all violations of any provision of this chapter occurring within designated on-street parking meter zones, including the date and time of each violation, the make and state license number of the vehicle involved, and any other information necessary to provide a complete understanding of the circumstances surrounding such violation.
10.60.020 Times and Ceins or Payment Deposited Prescribed.
The parking time and fees will be affixed to the parking meters, as follows: The parking time limits and fees for designated on-street parking meter zones shall be established as follows:
A. Business Zones. Parking spaces meters with 120-minute parking limits may be installed in the business zones, in locations determined by the Director of Community & Library Services. The fee for parking shall be three dollars per hour in off-peak season and four dollars per hour in peak season. Exceptions to those rates shall include July 4' " the two days immediately preceding and/or following July 4' as selected by the Director of Community & Library Services, and the three days of the Air Show when rates will increase by two dollars per hour.
1. Parking spaces meters with 24-minute limits may be installed in the business zone in locations determined by the Director of Community & Library Services. Parking in these parking locations will be limited to 26:00 a.m. to 12:00 a.m. daily, including Saturdays, Sundays and holidays.
2. The Director of Community & Library Services may determine that certain business recreational zone parking hours may be limited or extended. Notice of limited or extended parking limits shall be posted for the public.
B. Residential Zones
1. Parking spaces meters with 60-minute, 120-minute and 12-hour parking limits may be installed in the residential zones in locations determined by the Director of Community and Library Services. With the exception of Residential Zones (Section 10.60.010(B)(7) and (B)(8)), the fee for parking shall be three dollars per hour in off-peak season and four dollars per hour in peak season. The fee for parking in Residential Zones (Section
10.60.010(B)(7) and (B)(8)) shall be three dollars per hour in off-peak season and three dollars and fifty cents per hour in peak season.
Exceptions to these rates shall include July 4th, the two days immediately preceding and/or following July 4th as selected by the Director of Community and Library Services and the three days of the Air Show when rates will increase by two dollars per hour.
2. Parking spaces meters with 60-minute, 120-minute, and 12-hour parking limits may be installed within the residential zone in locations to be determined by the Director of Community and Library Services. These parking locations will be limited to 56:00 a.m. through 12:00 a.m. daily, including Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays.
C. Recreational Zones
1. Parking spaces meters with 12-hour parking limits may be installed within Zones A, B, C, D and E in locations determined by the Director of Community and Library Services. The fee for parking shall be three dollars per hour in off-peak season and three dollars and fifty cents per hour in peak season.
Exceptions to these rates shall include July 4th, the two days immediately preceding and/or following July 4th as selected by the Director of Community and Library Services and the three days of the Air Show when rates will increase by two dollars per hour.
2. Parking spaces meters or pay stations with 30-minute, 60-minute, 120- minute, and 12-hour parking limits may be installed within recreational zones in locations to be determined by the Director of Community and Library Services. These locations will be limited to parking from 56:00 a.m. through 12:00 a.m. daily, including Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays.
3. The Director of Community and Library Services may determine that certain recreational zone parking hours may be limited or extended. Notice of limited or extended parking limits shall be posted for the public.
10.60.030 Varied Meter Time Limits.
When the City Council designates the parking times allowed following payment as provided in this chapter and more than one parking time is so designated, the Director of Community and Library Services may place the meters in such locations within the zone as he or she shall deem proper and consistent with the intention of the City Council.
The Director of Community and Library Services or designee may designate the parking times allowed following payment as provided in this chapter. Parking payment devices or systems shall be configured to correspond to the designated time limits for each space.
10.60.040 State Highways Within Zones.
The provisions of Chapters 10.56, 10.60, 10.64 and 10.68 of the Huntington Beach Municipal Code shall be ineffective as to any portion of a state highway within the boundary of the on-street parking meter zone as set forth in Section 10.60.030 six months after receipt of notification from the Department of Transportation of the State of California of its rescinding its approval to the ordinance codified in this chapter.
10.60.050 Curfew.
In all on-street parking meter zones, the payment of fees through any authorized parking payment device or system to a parking meter or pay station does not exempt a person or vehicle from receiving a citation for violation of the posted curfew.
10.64.010 Parking Payment Parking Meters
When directed by the City Council, the Director of Community Services shall cause to be installed upon such streets or portions thereof within the on street parking meter zones, adjacent to each designated parking space, such parking meters as shall have been approved by the Council.
When directed by the City Council, the Director of Community and Library Services shall cause to be installed on such streets or portions thereof within designated metered zones, parking payment devices or systems.
10.64.020 Signs Indicating Payment Requirement Meter Type It is the duty of the Department of Public Works to maintain signs in the various areas within the parking meter zones, indicating the type of meter there installed and the days and hours during which the parking meters are in operation.
The Department of Public Works shall install and maintain signs in the various areas within metered parking zones. The signs shall clearly indicate the type of parking payment device or payment system available and the days and hours during which payment is required.
10.64.030 Sign Location
Signs as mentioned in Section 10.64.020, may either be on separate posts, painted on the curbs, or fastened to the parking meters, in the discretion of the Department of Public Works.
Signs as referenced in Section 10.64.020 may be placed on separate posts, painted on curbs, displayed electronically, or otherwise provided in a reasonable manner to inform the public, at the discretion of the Department of Community and Library Services.
10.64.040 Markings Indicating Parking Meter Space.
The Department of Public Works shall have lines or markings painted upon the curbs, streets or area adjacent to each parking meter, designating the parking space for which the meter is to be used.
The Department of Public Works shall have lines or markings painted or otherwise placed on curbs, streets, or adjacent areas to designate each parking space within designated metered zones and its applicable payment requirements.
10.64.050 Vehicle Position Within Lines.
Each vehicle parked adjacent to any parking meter shall be parked within said lines or markings.
Each vehicle parked in a designated parking space shall be positioned entirely within the lines or markings defining that space.
10.64.070 Proper Functioning.
Each parking meter shall be so designed that the deposit of a coin or coins will set the mechanism of the meter in motion or permit the mechanism to be set in motion so that the meter will show the unexpired parking time applicable to the parking space adjacent to the meter; and the meter, when parking time has expired, shall so indicate by a visible sign.
Parking payment devices or systems shall be designed to register payment for authorized parking time and provide a reasonable means of verifying that payment has been made, and the applicable parking time has not expired. Parking rates not specified in this Title shall be established by City Council resolution.
10.64.080 Adjusting Meters.
Parking meters when installed and properly operated shall be so adjusted to accept coins to show legal parking time. Rates will be determined by Council resolution.
10.68.010 Payment Cein Deposit Required.
No person shall park any vehicle in any parking space (except as otherwise permitted in this chapter) without immediately making payment through an authorized parking payment device or system in the amount and for the time period required for that space. depositing in the parking meter adjacent, or centrally located, to said space such lawful coin or coins of the United States as are required by such meter and designated by directions on the meter, and when required by directions on the meter, setting in operation the timing mechanism thereof (if applicable), in accordance with said directions, unless the parking meter indicates at the time such vehicle is parked that an unexpired portion remains of the period for which a coin or coins have been previously deposited.
10.68.020 Overtime Parking-On-Street Parking Meter Zones Business Zones.
No person, except as otherwise provided in this Chapter, shall cause, permit, allow or suffer any vehicle registered to or parked or operated by him or her to be or remain parked in any parking space in an on-street parking meter zone, designated by resolution of the City Council-as a business zone, during any time when the parking meter adjacent to such parking space indicates that no portion remains of the period of time for which a coin or coins have been deposited, beyond the time parking in such place is otherwise permitted or limited, or without paying the posted fee for the entire time the vehicle occupies the parking space.
10.68.030 Overtime Parking Residential Zones
No person, except as otherwise provided in this chapter, shall cause, permit, allow or suffer any vehicle registered to or parked or operated by him or her to be or remain parked in any parking space in a parking meter zone, designated by any resolution of the City Council as a residential zone, during any time when the parking meter adjacent to such parking space indicates that no portion remains of the period of time for which a coin or coins have been deposited, beyond the time parking in such place is otherwise permitted or limited, or without paying the posted fee.
10.68.040 Overtime Parking Recreational Zones
No person, except as otherwise provided in this chapter, shall cause, permit, allow or suffer any vehicle registered to or parked or operated by him or her to be or remain parked in any parking space in a parking meter zone, designated by resolution of the City Council as a recreational zone, during any time when the parking meter adjacent to such parking space indicates that no portion remains of the period of time for which a coin or coins have been deposited, beyond the time parking in such place is otherwise permitted or limited, or without paying the posted fee.
10.68.050 Payment Required Coin Deposit -- Exception
A vehicle may be parked and remain parked in a parking meter space without the deposit of any coin in the parking meter adjacent thereto during hours other than those designated by resolution of the City Council as hours during which such deposits are required.
A vehicle may be parked in a metered zone without payment during hours as authorized by City Council Resolution or Minute Action.
10.68.060 Slugs
It is unlawful to deposit or cause to be deposited in any parking meter any slug, device or metallic substitute for a one cent or a five-cent or a 25 cent coin of the United States.
10.68.070 Tampering with Signs, Payment Devices, or Meters.
It is unlawful for any unauthorized person to open, or for any person to deface, injure, tamper with, or willfully break, destroy or impair the usefulness of any parking meter or sign, or to attempt to circumvent any authorized parking payment device or system, installed pursuant to this chapter, or to hitch any animals thereto.
10.68.080 Parking Permits.
Not withstanding any other provision of this Code, there is established a system of permit parking subject to the following standards and provision:
A. A nontransferable parking permit shall be issued after payment of a fee, set by resolution of the City Council, to cover a calendar year. Such parking permit or decal, when affixed to the front windshield of a vehicle within a seven inch square in the lower corner farthest removed from the driver's position, shall authorize the parking of said vehicle in posted or metered recreational parking areas in the City, as such recreational parking areas have been, or may be hereinafter, established by resolution of the City Council, without the deposit of coins in a parking meter adjacent to a metered parking space. Such parking permit shall not, however, establish any priority for a parking space.
A. A non-transferable parking permit shall be issued upon payment of a fee established by resolution of the City Council and shall be valid for a period of one year. Such permit may be issued in the form of a physical decal or a virtual permit associated with a vehicle's license plate number. When a physical decal is issued, it shall be affixed to the inside of the front windshield of the permitted vehicle within a seven-inch square in the lower corner farthest removed from the driver's position. A virtual permit shall be valid only for the vehicle whose license plate number is registered with the City's parking permit system. A valid parking permit shall authorize the parking of the permitted vehicle in posted or metered zone areas within the City, as such areas have been or may hereafter be established by resolution of the City Council, without payment otherwise required for parking within such areas.
Issuance of a parking permit shall not establish any priority or guarantee the availability of a parking space.
B. Parking permits or decals shall be issued for one vehicle only and shall not be transferable to any other person or vehicle except in those cases where the vehicle for which the permit has been issued has been disposed of and a substitute vehicle acquired. Such permit shall be transferable to such substitute vehicle upon presentation of the old permit together with a transfer fee of one dollar.
B. Parking permits, whether issued as physical decals or virtual permits, shall be valid for one vehicle only and shall not be transferable to any other person or vehicle, except in the event that the vehicle for which the permit has been issued is replaced by a substitute vehicle.
Physical decal permits may be transferred to a substitute vehicle by presenting the existing decal to the City and payıng for any applicable tees. Vırtual permits may be transferred to a substitute vehicle only after the permit holder officially notifies the City of the new vehicle's license plate number and the City acknowledges the change.
C. The Director of Community and Library Services shall establish the necessary procedure rules and procedures for the sale and use of annual parking permits.
10.68.130 Hours.
The hours of operation of said on-street metered parking zones shall be from 5:00 a.m. to midnight daily.