MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS - USE OF STREETS - VALIDITY OF ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR PARKING METERS

Petitioner was convicted and fined for parking in a meter parking space on a city street without depositing a nickel in the meter as required by municipal ordinance. Upon being committed to jail he applied for a writ of habeas corpus, contending that the ordinance providing for parking meters was invalid. Held, the writ was denied, parking meter ordinances being valid police regulations. Ex parte Duncan, 179 Okla.

355, 65 P. (2d) 1015 (1937).