O-55-141
ORDINANCE NO.~l'/
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CREATING PARKING METER ZONES ON CERTAIN STREETS
OR HIGHVIAYS IN THE CITY OF CLEmiONT, LAKE COUNTY,
FLORIDA; PROVIDING FOR THE INSTALLATION, OPERA~
TION, MAINTENN~CE, SUPERVISION AND CONTROL OF
PARKING METERS IN SUCH ZONES, REGULATING ~
RESTRICTING THE PARKING OF VEHICLES IN ESTABLISH-
ED PARKING METER ZONES; ASSIGNING CERTAIN AUTHORI-
TIES AND DUTIES IN CONNECTION \IITH THE REGULATION
OF SAID TRAFFIC; PROVIDING FOR THE USE OF SAID
MONIES FOR CAPITAL I~WROVE~ENTS; PROVIDING PENALTIES
FOR THE VIOLATION OF ~ OF THE PROVISIONS HEREOF
AND REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES OR PARTS OF ORDINANCES
IN SO FAR AS THEY ARE INCONSISTENT HEREV~TH.
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BE IT ORDAINED AND ESTABLISHED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
CLERMONT, LN(E COUNTY, FLORIDA:
SECTION 1: This ordinance shall be known and may be
cited as liThe Parking Meter Ordinance ".
SECTION 2: The terms used in this ordinance shall
have the following meanings ascribed to them:
a. Parking Meter Zones shall mean streets or
highways or portions thereof, on which
parking meters are installed, operated
and used.
b. "Parking Meters" shall mean a mechanical
device intended to assist public authori-
ties in enforcing the provisions of this
ordinance, limiting the time during which
vehicles may be parked on any street or
hfughway within tGe Parking Meter Zone.
c. "Vehicle" shall mean any conveyance of
any character for the transportation of
persons or property.
SECTION 3: Parking Meter Zones are hereby established
in the following areas:
ON MONTROSE, SEVENTH (7th) AND EIGHTH (8th) STREETS
IN THE CITY OF CLERMONT.
SECTION 4: Parking in any Parking Meter Zone on
Wednesday, after 12:00 Noon, Sundays and legal holidays is
hereby specifically excluded from the provisions of this
ordinance.
SECTION 5: On all days, other than those mentioned
in Section 4 hereof, parking is hereby limited to a period
of time not in excess of four (4) hours and between the hours
of 8:00 A.M. and 6:00 P.M.
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SECTION 6: In all parking meter zones, a parking
meter shall be installed for each parking space. All parking
spaces shall be plainly marked by lines on the street.
SECTION 7: Parking meters shall be placed upon the
sidewalk or curb immediately adjacent or next to each designated'
parking space and in such manner as to show or display by a
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Signal that the parking space controlled by such meter, i1i
or is not legally occupied. FUrther, each parking meter
shall indicate by a proper legend the established rate and
the legal parking time, and, when in operation, shall also
indicate on or by its dial or pointer the duration of the
period of legal parking and any illegal or overparking.
SECTION 8: Any vehicle parked in any Parking Meter
Zone at any time during which the provisions of this ordin-
ance are in effect shall be entirely within the lines of
the desiginated parking space and adjacent to the parking
meter controlling such parking space.
SECTION 9: Upon parking any vehicle in a Parking
Meter Zone at any time during which the provisions of this
Ordinance are in effect, the operator of the parked vehicle
shall deposit, or cause to be deposited immediately after
parking, a one cent coin; two one-cent coin1i; three one-cent
coins; four one-cent co~ns; five one-cent coins; or a five-cent
coin, and, in like manner, up to ten one-cent coins or two
two five-cent coins of the United States of America in the
parking meter controlling such parking space and failure to
do so, shall constitute a violation of this ordinance. The
deposit of each one-cent coin shall entitle the vehicle to
occupy said space for a period not to exceed twelve minutes
immediately following such deposit and an additional twelve
minutes for each additional one-cent coin so deposited, not
however, to exceed ten such coins; the deposit of a five-cent
coin shall entitle the vehicle to occupy said space for a
period not to exceed one hour immediately following such
deposit, and the deposit of two five-cent coins shall entitle
the vehicle to occupy said space for a period not to exceed
two hours immediately following such deposit; the City Council,
however, may limit parking time in desiginated zones, provided
such time limits are plainly marked on the meters in such limited
zones.
SECTION 10: The coins hereby required to be deposited
are levied and assessed as fees to provide fDD the proper regu-
lation and control of such traffic upo¡L the highways, including
the cost of supervision and regulation of the parking ~~r.e~s ~
of vehicles in the parking meter zones herein created and the
cost of the purchases, surpervision, inspection, installation,
operation, maintenance, control and use of the aforesaid parking
meters. The coins to be deposited shall be collected and
accounted for, under the supervision of the Finance Committee
of Council, and deposited in General or Special account, to
be determined by the City Council.
Balance of all moneys derived under this
Section and ordinance are hereby pledged and shall only be
used by the City Council of the City of Clermont for the Capital
Improvements, including any Capital improvements in connection
with any recreational facility, within the City of Clermont,
except any mones required for the payment of control, oper-
ation and maintenance of said meters, which may, in the discretion
of the City Council, include salary of at least one police officer.
SECTION 11: No owner or operator of any vehicle shall
cause, allow, permit or suffer such vehicle to be parked over-
time or beyond the period of the legal parking time established
and set forth in section 9; nor may he cause, allow, permit or
suffer such vehicle to be parked in tI.hJ!i manner contrary to the
manner prescribed by this ordinance.
SECTION 12: No person shall deposit, or cause to be
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deposited in any parking meter any slug devise, foreign sub-
stance or substitute for a coin of the United States.
SECTION 13: No person shall deface, injure, tamper
with, or willfully break, destroy or impair the usefulness
of any parking meter.
SECTION 14: Nothing in this ordinance shall be
construed as prohibiting the City Council of the City of
Clermont or the Police Department with the approval of the
City Council from providing for free parking space for un-
loading and loading commercial vehicles, for bus stops, for
,taxicab stands, or for other matters of a similar nature.
SECTION l5: The duties of enforcing the provisions
of this ordinance shall be upon the Mayor or the City Council
of the City of Clermont, acting through the Police Department.
SECTION 16: It shall be the duty of the police officers
of the City of Clermont, acting in accordance with instructions
issued by the Mayor or City Council, to deposit with the City
Clerk, the stub of every vXlation ticket, such stub shall
contain:
a. The number of the parking meter adjacent
to the vehicle which was parked in viola-
tion of this ordinance.
b. The State license number of such vehicle.
c. The day and hour at which such vehicle is
parked in violation of this ordinance.
d. Any other facts which the officer deems
necessary to properly understand the
circumstances of the violation.
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r Every such police officer shall also place
on such vehicle a notice to the owner thereof that such vehicle
has been parked in violation of the provisions of this ordin-
ance and instructing such owner to report to the office of the
City Clerk, or such authority as the City Council may other-
wise designate, in regard to such violation. Each such owner,
may, within forty-eight hours after such violation, pay to the
City Clerk, or such other authority as the City Council may
designate, the sum of twenty-five cents ($0.25) for, and in
full satisfaction of such violation. The failure of such owner
to make such payment within said forty-eight hours, shall render
such owner subject to the penalties hereinafter provided for
violating the provisions of this ordinance. The City Clerk,
or such authority as the City Council may otherwise designate,
shall report all penalties received by him and pay over said
penalties received by him as now provided by law for the account-
ing and payment of moneys received by him.
However, it shall not be necessary for the
violator to go before the City Clerk, or other designated per-
son if he or she will use the IIfine boxes" located at various
places in the metered zones on the meter posts.
SECTION l7: Otherwise than as herein modified, or
changed, all existing parking regulations of the City ·of
Clermont shall be and remain in full force and effect.
SECTION 18: Any person, firm or corporation whether
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principal or agent violating any provisions of this
ordinance sgall, upon convition thereof, be sentenced to pay
a fine not exceeding Twenty Five Dollars ($25.00) and costs of
prosecution, and in default of the payment of such fine and
costs of 1rosecution shall be fine not more than Twenty Five
Dgllars 25.00) or be imprisoned in the city Jail not more
th!n one ay, or by both such fine and imprisionment, in the
discretion of the Judge of the Municipal Court of the City of
Clermont.
SECTION 19: If any provisions of this ordinance for
any reason shall be declared invailid by the courts having
jurisdiction thereof, the intention of this ordinance is
hereby expressed that all other provisions shall, neverthe-
less be sustained and enforced.
SECTION 20: All ordinance s or part s of ordinance s
in so far as the same are inconsistent herewith, be, and
the smroe are, hereby repealed.
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PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the
Clermont, Lake County, Florida, at its adjourned meeting
held in the city hall in the City of Clermont on
September 1, 1955.
City of
ATTEST:
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President of City Council '.
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RECEIVED AND APPROVED by me this
September, 1955.
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CERTIFICATE OF POSTING
The undersigned certifies that a copy of the foregoing
ordinance was posted for the required period of 10 days
on the Bulletin Board in the City Hall of the City of Clermont.
This ordinance is composed of this page and three others.
Dated,
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