21-37-29 - Parking meters. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 21-37-29. Parking meters.
 

The governing authorities of any municipality in this state are hereby authorized and empowered to purchase, lease or otherwise acquire, and to install and maintain parking meters for the regulation of the parking of vehicles on the municipal streets. When such parking meters are installed and operated by any municipality, the governing authorities thereof shall have the power to prescribe, by ordinance, reasonable rules and regulations for the use and operation of same, and to provide and prescribe penalties for the violation of such rules and regulations. Such governing authorities may also fix, prescribe, and collect fees for the use of the parking space adjacent to any such meters and to require that such fee shall be paid by the deposit of the appropriate coin or coins in such meters. 
 

Sources: Codes, 1942, § 3374-170; Laws,  1950, ch. 491, § 170; Laws, 1956, ch. 400.