Alternative-fuel cars get free meter parking

Hybrids park free.

So do other "alternative-fuel, fuel-efficient and low-polluting" vehicles. The Salt Lake City Council on Tuesday passed Mayor Rocky Anderson's initiative that offers free parking at city meters to those who choose to drive vehicles that cut down on gasoline.

The free parking at city meters is for "all alternative-fuel vehicles that either do not use gasoline or diesel fuel or use those fuels in combination with other fuels. Fuel-efficient vehicles with a city-driving fuel efficiency of 50 miles per gallon or more and low-polluting vehicles that achieve an Environmental Protection Agency air-pollution score of at least eight on a scale of 0-10, with 10 being the least polluting, can park free.

Those who want free parking must have a Utah Clean Fuel license plate or display a decal issued by the Salt Lake City Transportation Division.

A meter's maximum time limit remains in effect.