§ 9.36.010. Definitions.

For the purpose of this chapter, the following terms shall have the following meanings:

(1)

"Coin" or "coins" shall, in addition to coin or coins of the United States, include United States currency, credit cards, debit cards or any other form of compensation approved by the administrative authority for use in the particular type of parking meter.

(2)

"Holiday" means New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Veterans Day, Presidents Day and any other Monday through Friday on which City Hall of the city of Council Bluffs is officially closed for business.

(3)

"Operator" means the registered owner of a vehicle as well as any individual who operates a vehicle as the owner thereof or as an agent, employee, or permittee of the owner or who is in actual physical control of said vehicle.

(4)

"Park" or "parking" means the standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, upon a street or lot, other than temporarily for the purpose of unloading merchandise or passengers or in obedience to traffic regulations, signs, or signals or an involuntary stopping of a vehicle by reasons or causes beyond the control of the operator of the vehicle.

(5)

"Parking meter" means any mechanical, electronic, computer-operated or other device or meter approved by the administrative authority and placed or erected for the regulation of parking under authority set forth in this chapter.

(6)

"Parking meter space" means any space within a parking meter zone adjacent to or controlled by a parking meter and which is duly designated for the parking of a single vehicle by lines painted or otherwise durably marked on the curb or on the surface of the street or paving adjacent to or adjoining the parking meter, or otherwise designated as controlled by a parking meter.

(7)

"Parking meter zone" means any restricted street or area upon which parking meters are installed and in operation as designated and approved pursuant to this chapter.

(8)

"Street" or lot" means any public street, avenue, road, alley, highway, lane, path, parking lot, or other public place in the city of Council Bluffs established for the use of vehicles.

(9)

"Vehicle" means any device in, upon, or by which any person or property is or may be transported upon a street.

(Ord. 5708 § 1, 2002).

(Ord. No. 6278, § 1, 9-12-2016).