Athens City Code

1. (1) Lines, markings to designate free parking spaces. The city manager shall have lines or markings painted or placed upon the curb and/or upon the street for the purpose of designating the parking spaces to be used and each vehicle parking adjacent or next to any parking space shall park within the lines or markings so established. It is a civil offense to park any vehicle across any such line or marking or to park the vehicle in such position that the same shall not be entirely within the area designated by such lines or markings.
2. (2) Overtime parking prohibited. It is a civil offense for any person to cause, allow, permit, or suffer any vehicle registered in the name of, or operated by, such person to be parked overtime or beyond the period of legal parking time established for any parking zone.
3. (3) Driver's implied consent to parking control marks on tires; erasure or concealment of parking control marks on vehicle tires prohibited; evading parking time limitation prohibited.
   1. (a) Any person who operates any vehicle upon the streets, thoroughfares and public travelways within the corporate limits of the city and who utilizes the two-hour free on-street parking spaces provided herein gives his or her consent to the placement of nonpermanent parking control marks upon the tires of any vehicle parked in the designated two-hour free parking spaces.
   2. (b) It is a civil offense for any person to cause, allow, or permit the movement of any vehicle within the same parking space as to cover up or otherwise conceal the nonpermanent parking control marks placed upon vehicle tires by law enforcement officers to compute overtime parking or to in any manner, erase, wash, remove, obscure, obliterate, or otherwise wipe off the time marks placed upon the vehicle's tires while parked in the same parking space.
   3. (c) It is a civil offense for a vehicle to be moved with the purpose of evading parking time limitation to another parking space located within the same city block. The movement of a vehicle less than 30 minutes before or after the expiration of the parking time limitation from one parking space to such other parking space shall be presumed to have been moved with the purpose of evading the parking limitation.
   4. (d) Any person found in violation of this section shall be deemed guilty of a civil offense and, upon conviction, shall pay a civil penalty as assessed by the city judge.

(Code 1995, § 15-606; Ord. No. 770, 12-15-1992)