As used in this article, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
Any device by which any person or property may be transported
upon a highway, except those operated upon rails or tracks.
The following described streets in the Village
of Haverstraw are hereby designated and established as parking meter
zones: all of those streets and parts of streets upon which limited
parking is now permitted under authority and by virtue of all limited
and parking ordinances now effective and the parking limits and restrictions
therein provided as hereby incorporated in this article for all uses
and purposes applicable to the conditions, terms and enforcement hereof.
This chapter shall also apply to all parking spaces which presently
have meters and to all parking spaces where meters or other parking
fee collection devices are installed by resolution of the Village
Board of Trustees.
The Mayor shall provide for installation of
meters, including curb or street marking lines, regulation and operation
thereof and shall cause said meters to be maintained in good, workable
condition. Meters shall be placed upon the curb next to individual
parking places, and meters shall be so constructed as to display a
signal showing legal parking upon deposit therein of the proper coin
or coins of the United States as indicated by instructions on said
meter, and for a period of time conforming to the parking limits of
the Village of Haverstraw, said signal to remain in evidence until
expiration of said parking period so designated, at which time a change
of signal or some other mechanical operation shall indicate expiration
of said parking period.
The Village is hereby vested with the authority
to enter into a contract for the purchase and installation of parking
meters and to provide payment therefor exclusively from the receipts
obtained by the Village from their operation, and that said means
of payment shall be in addition to any other purchasing powers heretofore
granted the Village by its charter or by the laws of the State of
New York.
A.
When any vehicle shall be parked next to a parking
meter, the owner or operator of said vehicle shall park within the
area designated by the curb or street marking lines as indicated for
parallel or diagonal parking and upon entering said parking space
shall immediately deposit in said meter one or more $0.25 or other
coins of the United States as indicated by instructions on said meter.
It shall be unlawful for any person to fail to park within said designated
area or fail or neglect to so deposit the proper coin or coins.
B.
Said parking space may then be used by such vehicle during the legal parking limit provided by the ordinances of the Village, and said vehicle shall be considered as unlawfully parked if it remains in said space beyond the legal parking limit and/or when said parking meter displays a signal showing such illegal parking. It shall be unlawful for any person to cause or permit any vehicle registered in his name to be unlawfully parked as set out in § 227-44.
A.
It shall be unlawful for any person to deposit, or
cause to be deposited in a parking meter, one or more twenty-five-cent
or other coins for the purpose of extending the parking time beyond
the maximum time fixed by the ordinance of the Village of Haverstraw.
B.
It shall be unlawful to deposit or cause to be deposited
in any parking meter any slug, device or a metallic substitute for
a coin of the United States.
It shall be unlawful for any person to tamper
with, open, willfully break or destroy any parking meter.
It shall be the duty of traffic officers so
instructed to take the parking meter number and the state vehicle
tag number of all persons violating the provisions of this article
and make complaint therefor in the Municipal or Police Court of the
Village of Haverstraw.
The fee required to be deposited in said meters
is hereby levied as a police regulation and inspection fee to cover
the cost of providing parking spaces, parking meters, and installation
and maintenance thereof, the cost of regulation and inspection, operation,
control and use of the parking meter spaces and zones created herein,
for the regulation and control for traffic moving in and out of and
parking in said parking spaces and zones so created, and for the cost
of any resultant traffic administration expense.
If any section, provision or part thereof in
this article shall be adjudged invalid or unconstitutional by a court
of competent jurisdiction, then such adjudication shall not affect
the validity of the ordinance as a whole or any section, provision
or part thereof not so adjudged invalid or unconstitutional.
