Inoperable parking meters.

Existing law authorizes a local authority to adopt an ordinance or resolution prohibiting or restricting the parking of a vehicle at an inoperable parking meter or inoperable parking payment center, as defined. Existing law authorizes parking in a parking space that is regulated by an inoperable parking meter or an inoperable parking payment center for up to the posted time limit if no ordinance or resolution has been adopted to prohibit it. This bill would authorize, subject to restrictions, parking without time limit at a parking space that is regulated by an inoperable parking meter or inoperable parking payment center when the parking space does not have a posted time limit. The bill would authorize a local authority to limit parking to 4 hours at a parking space regulated by an inoperable parking meter or inoperable parking payment center when the parking space does not have a posted time limit, if the local authority posts specified signs. The bill would prohibit a local authority from issuing a citation for nonpayment of fees for parking in a parking space regulated by a parking meter or parking payment center that cannot physically accept payment, notwithstanding the fact that other nonphysical methods of payment may be accepted. The bill would prohibit a local authority from enacting an ordinance or resolution prohibiting or restricting the parking of a vehicle in a parking space that is regulated by an inoperable parking meter or inoperable parking payment center, as defined.