Patrol assigned area, such as public parking lot or section of city to issue tickets to overtime parking violators and illegally parked vehicles.

Other names for Parking Enforcement Workers: Parking Control Specialist, Parking Enforcement Monitor, Parking Enforcement Officer (PEO), Parking Patroller, Parking Security Attendant, Police Cadet, Police Officer, Police Service Technician, Security Officer, Traffic Control Officer, Civilian Service Employee, Community Service Officer, Meter Maid, Parking Control Aid,

• Patrol an assigned area by vehicle or on foot to ensure public compliance with existing parking ordinance.
• Maintain close communications with dispatching personnel, using two-way radios or cell phones.
• Write warnings and citations for illegally parked vehicles.
• Mark tires of parked vehicles with chalk and record time of marking, and return at regular intervals to ensure that parking time limits are not exceeded.
• Respond to and make radio dispatch calls regarding parking violations and complaints.
• Train new or temporary staff.
• Identify vehicles in violation of parking codes, checking with dispatchers when necessary to confirm identities or to determine whether vehicles need to be booted or towed.
• Perform simple vehicle maintenance procedures such as checking oil and gas, and report mechanical problems to supervisors.
• Observe and report hazardous conditions such as missing traffic signals or signs, and street markings that need to be repainted.
• Investigate and answer complaints regarding contested parking citations, determining their validity and routing them appropriately.
• Maintain assigned equipment and supplies such as handheld citation computers, citation books, rain gear, tire-marking chalk, and street cones.
• Provide information to the public regarding parking regulations and facilities, and the location of streets, buildings and points of interest.
• Appear in court at hearings regarding contested traffic citations.
• Make arrangements for illegally parked or abandoned vehicles to be towed, and direct tow-truck drivers to the correct vehicles.
• Perform traffic control duties such as setting up barricades and temporary signs, placing bags on parking meters to limit their use, or directing traffic.
• Provide assistance to motorists needing help with problems, such as flat tires, keys locked in cars, or dead batteries.
• Enter and retrieve information pertaining to vehicle registration, identification, and status, using handheld computers.
• Collect coins deposited in meters.
• Prepare and maintain required records, including logs of parking enforcement activities, and records of contested citations.
• Locate lost, stolen, and counterfeit parking permits, and take necessary enforcement action.
• Wind parking meter clocks.
• Assign and review the work of subordinates.
• Remove handbills within patrol areas.