Amending Sections 6, 7, 8, 9, Section 11, and Section 14 entitled "An Ordinance Relating to Traffic and Regulating the use of the Streets and Highways of the City of South Bend"

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NOV 21 '59 GM F I L E D CITY OF Soul H BEND FREDA 0 NOBLE, CLERK Andicated. Each parking meter shall be set or placed as o show or display a signal that the parking space along side of it s or is not in use. Each parking meter or device shall be o set as to display a signal showing legal and lawful parking Pon the deposit of the appropriate coin or coins, lawful money of the United States of America, therein for the period of time pursuant to this Ordinance, to the parking limit now established pursuant to this Ordinance or hereafter provided pursuant to Ordinance of the City of South Bend, Indiana for that part of the street upon which said meter is placed and each meter shall begin and continue in operation from the time of the deposit of such coin or coins until the expiration of the time fixed by said Ordinance as the parking limit for the part of the street upon which said meter is placed. Each meter or device shall be so arranged that upon the expiration of the lawful parking period or time limit it will indicate by a proper visible signal that the lawful parking period has expired and in such case the right of such vehicle to occupy such space shall cease and the operator, owner, possessor or manager thereof shall be subject to the penalties hereinafter provided. SECTION III, That Section 8 of Ordinance No. 3644 shall be amended to read as follows: Section 8. Except in a period of emergency determined by an officer of the Fire or Police Department, or in compliance with the direction of a Police officer or traffic control sign or signal of the City of South Bend, Indiana, when any vehicle shall be parked in any parking space along side or next to which a parking meter is located, the operator of such vehicle shall, upon entering the said parking meter space, immediately deposit or cause to be deposited in said meter such proper coin or coins of the United, States of America as is required for such parking meter and as is designated by proper directions on the said meter and this Ordinance and shall also set in operation the timing mechanism on such meter in accordance with directions properly appearing thereon, and failure to deposit such proper coin or coins, and to set the timing mechanism in operation when so required, shall con- stitute a violation of this Ordinance. Upon the deposit of such coin or coins (and the setting of the timing mechanism in operation when so required) the parking space may be lawfully occupied by such vehicle during the period of time which has been prescribed for the part of the street in which said parking space is located, 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 occupant of the space shall not be re- quired to deposit a coin so long as his occupancy of said space does not exceed the indicated unused parking time. If said vehicle shall remain parked in any such parking space beyond the parking time limit set for such parking space, or if the meter shall indicate such illegal parking, then and -2-