§ 31-28-2. Ordinances authorizing parking meters and meter zones.
(a) Any town or city council may enact ordinances authorizing the installation, operation, maintenance, policing, and supervision of parking meters on the public highways, and fix and provide for the payment of a fee for the purpose of parking by requiring the operator of any vehicle parking in the zone to deposit in the meter in the zone or adjacent to it, a coin of the United States as the council shall determine to be necessary for the purpose of regulating parking. Any fee established for parking shall bear a reasonable relation to the actual cost incurred by the town or city in the installation, operation, maintenance, policing, and supervision of the parking meter system and the parking of motor vehicles on the public highways.
(b) The commissioner of public safety for the city of Providence and the council of any other city or town may establish parking meter zones for the purpose of regulating the parking of motor vehicles on the public highways.
History of Section.P.L. 1940, ch. 897, § 3; impl. am. P.L. 1951, ch. 2723, § 4; G.L. 1956, § 31-28-2; P.L. 1987, ch. 215, § 1.
Structure Rhode Island General Laws
Title 31 - Motor and Other Vehicles
Chapter 31-28 - Parking Facilities and Privileges
Section 31-28-1. - “Parking meter” defined.
Section 31-28-2. - Ordinances authorizing parking meters and meter zones.
Section 31-28-3. - Unauthorized meters.
Section 31-28-4. - Exemption of persons with disabilities from payment of fees.
Section 31-28-6. - Overtime parking by persons with a disability exempt from fees.
Section 31-28-7.2. - Repealed.
Section 31-28-7.3. - Disability parking enforcement program.
Section 31-28-7.10. - Special legislative commission to study the disability parking placard system.
Section 31-28-8. - Use of meters for charitable contributions.
Section 31-28-9. - Owner’s liability for parking tickets.
Section 31-28-10. - Parking spaces for persons transporting young children and strollers.