Legal Documents of Newport

It shall be unlawful during the hours between 8:00 A.M. and 6:00 P.M., except on Sundays and Christmas, for any person to park or permit a vehicle under his control to be parked in a designated parking meter space while the parking meter for the space indicates that the vehicle is illegally parked, whether the indication is the result of the failure to deposit a coin or operate the lever or other actuating device of the meter, or is the result of the automatic operation of the meter following the expiration of the authorized parking time subsequent to depositing a coin therein at the time the vehicle was parked. However, this section shall not apply to the act of parking or the necessary time which is required to deposit immediately thereafter a coin in such meter. The fact that a vehicle is parked in a metered parking space during the hours of limited parking without the meter time signal showing permitted parking, shall he prima facie evidence that the vehicle has been parked in the space longer than the lawful parking period. It shall be unlawful for any person to cause or permit any vehicle registered in his name to be unlawfully parked as set out in this section. (1973 Code, § 11-238)