Sec. 7-207a. Use of parking meter revenues.
Sec. 7-207a. Use of parking meter revenues. Any municipality may, by ordinance, authorize its parking authority or parking division to collect and receive all revenue from parking meters located on public streets in the municipality or to establish
metered on-street parking zones. Any municipality that has adopted an ordinance under
section 7-204a may authorize its parking authority to receive the amount remitted to the
municipality for parking violations under subsection (b) of section 51-56a. All existing
parking meters, upon the adoption of such ordinance, shall become the property of the
parking authority or parking division and such authority or division shall succeed to all
the obligations of such municipality relative to payment for such meters. The revenues
from such meters shall be used by such authority or division for the regulation and
control of the parking of vehicles in parking meter on-street and off-street zones, for
the cost of purchase, installation, operation, inspection, supervision and maintenance
of parking meters, for acquiring, operating and maintaining off-street parking facilities
and to fulfill pledges made under the provisions of section 7-206 for the payment of
bonds.
(1959, P.A. 558, S. 1; P.A. 03-264, S. 3.)
History: P.A. 03-264 added provision re receipt of fines remitted to municipality for parking violations under Sec.
51-56a(b).