OPERATION OF PARKING METERS.
Raleigh City Code § 11-2204
in effectSec. 11-2204. - OPERATION OF PARKING METERS.
(a) Except in a period of emergency determined by an officer of the Fire or Police Department, or in compliance with the directions of a police officer or traffic-control sign or signal, when any vehicle shall be parked in any time-regulated parking space, the operator of such vehicle shall, upon entering the parking meter space, immediately activate such meter as is designated by proper directions on the meter and authorized in this article and failure to activate the meter as authorized in this article when so required shall constitute a violation of this article.
(b) Upon parking meter activation, the parking space may be lawfully occupied by the vehicle during the period of time which has been prescribed for the part of the street in which the parking space is located, provided that any person placing a vehicle in a parking meter space adjacent to a meter which indicates that unused time has been left in the meter by a previous occupant of the space shall not be required to activate such meter so long as his occupancy of the space does not exceed the indicated unused parking time. If the vehicle shall remain parked in any parking space beyond the parking time limit set for the parking space, and if the meter shall indicate illegal parking, then, and in that event the vehicle shall be considered as parking overtime and beyond the period of legal parking time and such parking shall be deemed a violation of this article.
(Code 1959, §21-47; Ord. No. 2019-25, §1, 11-19-19)
Source: City of Raleigh, North Carolina, City Code and City Charter (Municode Library, library.municode.com)URL: https://library.municode.com/nc/raleigh/codes/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=DIVIICOGEOR_PT11TR_CH2MOVETR_ARTKPAME_S11-2204OPPAMEFetched: 11/1/2026