As used in this Article, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
OPERATOR
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.
PARKING METER
Any mechanical device or meter, not inconsistent with this
Article, placed or erected for the regulation of parking by authority
of this Article.
PARKING-METER SPACE
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.
PARKING-METER ZONE
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.
PARK, PARKING
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.
STREET
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.
VEHICLE
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.
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.
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.
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.