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Except as permitted under subsection H of this section, all moneys collected from parking meters and pay-and-display stations used on municipal off-street parking lots, other than the Parking Space Rental Tax (BMC Chapter 7.48), shall be placed in a special fund, which fund shall be devoted exclusively to the following purposes:

A. For the purchasing, leasing, installing, repairing, maintaining, operating, removing, regulating and policing of parking meters in the City, and for the payment of any and all expenses relating or incidental thereto;

B. For the purchasing, leasing, acquiring, improving, operating and maintaining of off-street parking facilities in the City;

C. For the installation and maintenance of traffic control devices and signals;

D. For the painting and marking of streets and curbs required for the direction of traffic and the parking of motor vehicles;

E. For the proper regulation, control and inspection of parking and traffic upon the public streets;

F. To be pledged as security for the payment of principal of and interest on off-street parking revenue bonds issued by the City;

G. Additional Revenue deemed to be generated by the goBerkeley Pilot Program will be used to fund goBerkeley efforts, pursuant to Section 1012(b) of Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991, as amended, as agreed in the 2012 Cooperative Agreement between the City of Berkeley, the California Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration.

H. Surplus money not utilized under subsections A through F of this section may be transferred to the General Fund. The City Manager or their designee may make an annual determination as to what is surplus based on the needs and obligations of the special fund and transfer such surplus to the General Fund. (Ord. 7806-NS § 1, 2022: Ord. 7628-NS § 2, 2018: Ord. 7601-NS § 1 (part), 2018: Ord. 7101-NS § 6, 2009: Ord. 3460-NS (part), 1955: Ord. 3340-NS § 20.1, 1953)