As used in this Article, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
Every individual who shall operate a vehicle as the owner
thereof or as the agent, employee or permittee of the owner or who
is in actual, physical control of a vehicle.
Any mechanical device or meter, not inconsistent with this
Article, placed or erected for the regulation of parking by authority
of this Article.
Any space within a parking-meter zone adjacent to a parking
meter and which is duly designated for the parking of a single vehicle
by lines painted or otherwise durably marked upon the curb or the
surface of the street adjacent to or adjoining a parking meter.
Any and all streets set aside under this Article for the
installation of parking meters and upon which parking meters have
been installed and are in operation.
The standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, upon
a street, except by reason of causes beyond the control of the operator
of the vehicle.
Any public street, highway, road, avenue, lane, court or
other public way in the Village established for the use of vehicles.
For the purpose of this Article, any reference in this Article to
"street" shall also include any municipally operated parking field
within the Village, it being the intent of this Article to include
municipally operated parking fields.
Any device in, upon or by which any person or property is
or may be transported upon a highway, except a device which is operated
upon rails or tracks, except baby carriages.
The Board of Trustees shall be empowered to
contract for the purchase and installation of said parking meters.
The Board of Trustees of the Village may, from
time to time, designate as parking-meter zones or change such areas,
streets or portions of streets, situate, lying and being within the
Village as may be required.
The Chief of Police shall mark off individual parking spaces in the parking zones designated by the Board of Trustees as provided in § 240-37. Said parking spaces shall be designated by lines painted or durably marked upon the curbing or surface of the street. At each space so marked it shall be unlawful to park any vehicle in such manner that said vehicle shall not be entirely within the limits of the space designated.
A.
Duty of Chief of Police. The Chief of Police shall cause parking meters to be installed upon the curb or sidewalk immediately adjacent to the parking spaces designated as provided in § 240-38. Such parking meters shall be installed not more than two feet from the curb, and the Chief of Police shall be responsible for the regulation, control and use of such parking meters.
B.
Meter signals; settings. Each parking meter shall
be so set as to display a signal showing legal parking upon the deposit
of the appropriate coin or coins, lawful money of the United States
of America, for the period of time prescribed therefor. Each meter
shall be so arranged that, upon the expiration of the lawful time
limit, it will indicate by a proper visible signal that the lawful
parking period has expired, and in such cases the right of such vehicle
to occupy such space shall cease and the operator, owner or manager
thereof shall thereupon be subject to the penalties herein provided.
Each parking meter when installed shall indicate
by proper legend the legal parking time established by the village
and, when operated, shall at all times indicate the balance of legal
parking time and, at the expiration of such period, shall indicate
illegal or overtime parking.
A.
Deposit of coin. Except in a period of emergency determined
by an officer of the Fire or Police Department or in compliance with
the directions of a police officer or traffic control sign or signal,
when any vehicle shall be parked in any parking space alongside or
next to which a parking meter is located, the operator of such vehicle
shall, upon entering said parking meter space, immediately deposit
or cause to be deposited in said meter such proper coin of the United
States as is required for such parking meter and as is designated
by proper direction on the meter, and, when required by the directions
on the meter, the operator of such vehicle, after the deposit of the
proper coin or coins, shall also set in operation the timing mechanism
on such meter in accordance with directions properly appearing thereon,
and failure to deposit such proper coin and to set the timing mechanism
in operation when so required shall constitute a violation of this
Article.
B.
Effect of deposit. Upon deposit of such coin and the
setting of the timing mechanism in operation when so required, the
parking space may be lawfully occupied by such vehicle during the
period of time which has been prescribed for the part of the street
in which said parking space is located, provided that any person placing
a vehicle in a parking meter space adjacent to a meter which indicates
that unused time has been left in the meter by the previous occupant
of the space shall not be required to deposit a coin so long as his
occupancy of said space does not exceed the indicated unused parking
time. If said vehicle shall remain parked in any such parking space
beyond the parking time limit set for parking space and if the meter
shall indicate such illegal parking, then and in that event such vehicle
shall be considered as parking overtime and beyond the period of legal
parking time, and such parking shall be deemed a violation of this
Article.
The fixing of time limits and the amount of
fees or charges for the parking or standing of a vehicle in a designated
space in a parking-meter zone or in any municipal parking field shall
be governed and regulated by appropriate resolutions of the Board
of Trustees.
[Amended 4-9-1984 by L.L. No. 4-1984; 3-4-1991 by L.L. No.
3-1991]
Parking meters shall be operated in parking-meter
zones every day between the hours of 6:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. and for
other such time as the Board of Trustees may set by resolution, except
Sundays and holidays; provided, however, that within the meaning of
this Article, the term "holiday" shall include the following days
only: the first day of January; Martin Luther King Day; Lincoln's
Birthday; Washington's Birthday; the day designated by the President
of the United States as Memorial Day; the Fourth of July; the first
Monday of September; Columbus Day; Election Day; Veterans Day; the
day designated and set aside by the President of the United States
as a day of Thanksgiving; and the 25th day of December.
It shall be unlawful and a violation of the
provisions of this Article for any person:
A.
Overtime parking. To cause, allow, permit or suffer
any vehicle registered in the name of or operated by such person to
be parked overtime or beyond the period of legal parking time established
for any parking-meter zone as herein described or to deposit in any
parking meter any coin for the purpose of parking beyond the maximum
legal parking time for the particular parking-meter zone.
B.
Illegal parking. To permit any vehicle to remain or
be placed in any parking space adjacent to any parking meter while
said meter is displaying a signal indicating that the vehicle occupying
such parking space has already been parked beyond the period prescribed
for such parking space.
C.
Parking across lines or markings. To park any vehicle
across any line or marking of a parking-meter space or in such position
that the vehicle shall not be entirely within the area designated
by such lines or markings.
D.
Tampering with or damaging meters. To deface, injure,
tamper with, open or willfully break, destroy or impair the usefulness
of any parking meter installed under the provisions of this Article.
E.
Depositing slugs. To deposit or cause to be deposited
in any parking meter any slugs, device or metal substance or other
substitute for lawful coins.
A.
Collectors; designation and duties. There shall be
employed by the village a parking meter serviceman to make regular
collections of the money deposited in parking meters, and it shall
be the duty of such person to remove from the parking meters the sealed
containers therein containing the coins so deposited in said meters
and to deliver such sealed containers, with seals unbroken, to the
Village Treasurer to break the seals and to count the funds contained
therein and to deposit such funds as required by law. Such parking
meter servicemen shall also be responsible for the maintenance of
such parking meters.
B.
Contract with bank authorized. The Board of Trustees
may contract with a bank in the village, or such other place as they
may deem advisable, to receive the moneys collected from such parking
meters, to count, collect and account therefor to the village after
crediting itself with the agreed compensation for such services pursuant
to contract to be made with the village.
Nothing in this Article shall be construed as
prohibiting the village from providing for bus stops and taxicab stands
and similar matters, including the loading and unloading of trucks,
vans or other commercial vehicles in said parking zones or otherwise
in said village.
[Amended 9-17-1979 by L.L. No. 9-1979]
It shall be the duty of the Police Department,
school crossing guards and parking enforcement officers to enforce
the provisions of this article and all other provisions of this chapter
pertaining to the parking of motor vehicles.
Generally. Any person who shall violate or fail
to comply with any of the provisions of this article or who shall
counsel, aid or abet any such violation or failure to comply shall
be deemed guilty of disorderly conduct and shall be punished as prescribed
for violations of the Code of the Village of Lynbrook.
