DEPOSIT OF COINS OR TOKENS; TIME LIMITS; PROHIBITIONS
Colorado Springs City Code § 10.15.104
in effect10.15.104: DEPOSIT OF COINS OR TOKENS; TIME LIMITS; PROHIBITIONS:
A. No person shall park a vehicle in any parking space upon a street alongside of and next to which a parking meter has been installed during the restricted and regulated time applicable to the parking meter zone in which a meter is located unless a coin or coins of United States currency or authorized tokens of the appropriate denomination as provided in this chapter, shall have been deposited, or shall have been previously deposited for an unexpired interval of time, and the meter has been placed in operation.
B. No person shall deposit or attempt to deposit in any parking meter any slug, button or any other device or substance as substitutes for coins of United States currency or authorized tokens, and no person shall deposit any lawful coin or authorized token that is bent, cut, torn, battered or otherwise misshapen.
C. No person shall permit a vehicle within the person's control to be parked in any parking meter space during the restricted and regulated time applicable to the parking meter zone in which a meter is located while the parking meter for the space indicates by signal that the lawful parking time in the place is expired. This provision shall not apply to the act of parking or the necessary time which is required to immediately deposit a coin(s) or token(s) in the meter.
D. No person shall park a vehicle in any parking meter space for a consecutive period of time longer than that limited period of time for which parking is lawfully permitted in the parking meter zone in which the meter is located, irrespective of the number or amount of the coins or tokens deposited in the meter.
E. A vehicle may be parked in a parking meter space without operation of the meter on Sundays prior to one o’clock (1:00) P.M., on "holidays" as defined in this chapter, and during those hours of the day when the requirement to deposit coins or tokens does not apply as determined from the parking meter sign or legend.
F. It shall be unlawful for any person, vendor or peddler to sell, offer for sale, solicit or serve goods, services, wares or foodstuffs from any metered parking space without a permit regardless of the hours of meter operation or enforcement.
G. The provisions of this section shall not relieve any person from the duty to observe other and more restrictive provisions of this chapter prohibiting or limiting the stopping, standing or parking of vehicles in specified places, at specified times, or in a specified manner.
H. The provisions of subsection A shall not apply to a vehicle bearing a valid and unexpired remuneration-exempt identifying placard issued pursuant to C.R.S. § 42-3-204. (1968 Code §6-15-4; Ord. 75-86; Ord. 01-42; Ord. 04-170; Ord. 17-49; Ord. 20-26; Ord. 21-84)
Source: City of Colorado Springs, Colorado, City Code and City Charter (American Legal Publishing, codelibrary.amlegal.com)URL: https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/coloradospringsco/latest/coloradosprings_co/0-0-0-18141Fetched: 11/1/2026