82.485. City treasurer supervisor of parking meters--powers and duties--parking meter fund--parking commission.
City treasurer supervisor of parking meters--powers andduties--parking meter fund--parking commission.
82.485. 1. The treasurer of any city not within a county is herebymade and constituted supervisor of parking meters.
2. It shall be the duty of the supervisor of parking meters toinstall parking meters, collect all parking meter fees, supervise theexpenditures for repairs and maintenance, establish and supervise a parkingenforcement division and a parking meter division to enforce any statute orordinances now or hereafter established pertaining to the parking of motorvehicles, including automated zone parking and all other parking functions,and to make all disbursements on any parking contracts, includingemployment, consulting, legal services, capital improvement and purchase ofequipment and real property which may hereafter be made by such cities,subject to audit in the manner provided by state statute.
3. The supervisor of parking meters shall establish and maintain aparking meter fund and any other funds therein which the supervisor ofparking meters determines to be necessary, including debt service funds andcapital improvement funds for purposes including, but not restricted to,the construction of off-street parking facilities and supervising anddirecting the financing of such projects. The supervisor of parking metersof such city may issue revenue bonds and pledge parking division and otherrevenues and assets, including real property and future income, for thepurpose of capital improvements and debt service. The parking meter fundshall be the sole depository for all parking revenue derived from parkingfees, fines, penalties, administrative costs and booting or any otherrevenues derived from the efforts of the employees of the supervisor ofparking, including the parking meter division or parking violationenforcement division.
4. The supervisor of the parking meters shall each year submit forapproval to the board of aldermen, having first been reviewed by theparking commission, an operating budget projecting revenues and expensesfor the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1990, and for each fiscal yearthereafter. The parking commission, which shall consist of the supervisorof parking meters as chairperson, the chairperson of the aldermanic trafficcommittee, the director of streets, the comptroller and the director of theparking meter operations, shall approve parking policy as necessary tocontrol public parking, shall set rates and fees to ensure the successfuloperation of the parking division, and require a detailed accounting ofparking division revenues from any agent or agency, public or private,involved in the collection of parking revenues. The supervisor of parkingmeters shall draw upon the parking meter fund annually a portion of suchfund according to the parking meter division's operating budget to pay anydebt obligations, salaries, contracts, expenditures for repairs andmaintenance, and make any capital improvements, and a portion of such fundshall at the end of each fiscal year then be transferred to the generalfund of the city. The transfer to the general fund shall be no more thanforty percent of the parking meter fund's net change in the fund's balanceafter all payments for capital improvements and debt service have beenmade.
(L. 1951 p. 347 §§ 1, 2, A.L. 1990 H.B. 1716, A.L. 1992 H.B. 1228, A.L. 1999 S.B. 19)