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Attendees of the Flagstaff First Friday ArtWalk will be some of the first to experience the newest addition to downtown Flagstaff: functioning parking meters.

The city’s paid parking system turns on Friday morning, and downtown visitors will be expected to use the parking kiosks or the mobile app to pay for parking downtown. The cost is $1 per hour, and in order to use the kiosks or the app, a person must know the car’s license plate number.

Friday will begin the program’s “initial rollout period,” where those who fail to correctly use the paid parking system will receive warnings instead of fines. However, interim parking manager Karl Eberhard said those who are “repeatedly taking advantage of not paying” will receive tickets, even during the rollout period.

Eberhard said there is not a determined number of how many warnings a person will receive before receiving a ticket, but said the rollout “is not a free-for-all period, it’s a time for people to learn the system without being punished for making a mistake.”

Paid parking will be in effect between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. Monday through Wednesday, 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. Thursday and Friday, 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday and 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday.