[Amended 5-16-1989 by Ord. No. 849; 8-17-2004 by Ord. No.
956; 1-17-2006 by Ord. No. 973; 7-15-2008 by Ord. No. 989]
The following parking lots, which shall be metered
as determined from time to time by Borough Council and whose days
and hours of operation when metered shall be between the hours of
9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
and Saturday, are established within the Borough:
|
Lot
|
Location
|
Rate/
Minutes
|
Maximum Parking Time
(hours)
|
|---|---|---|---|
|
#1
|
Between S. 3rd and S. 4th Streets South of Pine
Alley
|
Token/45
$0.05/9
$0.10/18
$0.25/45
|
8
|
|
#2
|
Between Market and St. Louis Streets West of
5th Street
|
Token/45
$0.05/9
$0.10/18
$0.25/45
|
8
|
|
#4
|
Between Market and St. Mary Streets East of
7th Street
|
Token/45
$0.05/9
$0.10/18
$0.25/45
|
8
|
|
#5
|
Between Market and St. Mary Streets West of
5th Street
|
Token/45
$0.05/9
$0.10/18
$0.25/45
|
8
|
|
#6
|
Between Market and St. John Streets Between
N. 2nd and N. 3rd Streets
|
Token/45
$0.05/9
$0.10/18
$0.25/45
|
8
|
Parking meters installed in the parking lots shall be placed immediately adjacent to the individual parking spaces that shall be marked off and maintained in the lots. For each parking meter there shall be a clear indication, through use of a directional arrow, or an identification as to number with the parking space, to show which individual parking space it serves. Each parking meter shall indicate by a proper legend the parking rate and the maximum parking time established by § 345-47 of this chapter, and, when the parking space is occupied and the parking meter put into operation by the insertion of one or more coins or tokens, the parking meter shall indicate on and by its dial and pointer the duration of legal parking, and, upon the expiration of that period, shall indicate illegal parking or overparking.
Council, at its discretion, may provide, at
convenient and suitable locations in any one or more of the metered
parking lots, reserved parking spaces for handicapped, and shall designate
those spaces by appropriate signs. It shall be unlawful, and a violation
of this chapter, for any person to park in any such reserved parking
space, any vehicle unless that vehicle bears or displays either: a
"handicapped registration plate," a "handicapped parking placard,"
a "disabled veteran registration plate," or a "disabled veteran placard."
Lines and/or markings shall be painted or placed
upon the surface of the metered parking lots, adjacent to each parking
meter, for the purpose of delineating the parking space for which
that meter shall be used. Every vehicle parked adjacent to any parking
meter shall be parked wholly within the lines or markings so placed
and applicable to that meter. It shall be unlawful and a violation
of this chapter for any person:
It shall be unlawful for any person to park
a vehicle in any metered parking lot:
Whenever a vehicle is to be parked in any metered
parking lot, at any time when the lot is open for use and the meters
are to be in operation, the driver of the vehicle, upon entering the
parking space, shall immediately deposit, or cause to be deposited,
in the proper parking meter, one or more proper coins of the United
States of America, or tokens, as specified in the legend on the parking
meter. Upon the deposit of the coin or coins, or token, and placing
the meter in operation, the parking space may be lawfully occupied
by the vehicle for the time indicated on the meter. If any vehicle
remains in any such parking space for such length of time that the
meter indicates that the lawful parking time has expired, that vehicle
shall be considered as being parked overtime, and the parking of a
vehicle overtime shall be a violation of this chapter. Provided: every
hour that a vehicle remains parked at a meter showing a violation
shall constitute a separate violation of this chapter.
It shall be unlawful for any person to deposit
in any parking meter installed under the provisions of this chapter
any slug or other substitute for a coin of the United States of America,
or a token not issued by the Borough of Lewisburg.
It shall be unlawful, and a violation of this
chapter, for any person to permit a vehicle to remain in a parking
space adjacent to a parking meter installed under this chapter, when
that meter displays a signal indicating that the vehicle has already
been parked there beyond the period of time prescribed for that parking
space, or the time for which a coin(s) or token(s) was/were deposited
in that meter for the parking of that vehicle.
[Amended 4-17-2012 by Ord. No. 1014]
It shall be unlawful, and a violation of this
chapter, for any person to deface, tamper with, open or willfully
break, destroy or impair the usefulness of any parking meter installed
under the provisions of this chapter. Provided: nothing in this section
shall apply to the servicing or opening of parking meters by officers
or employees of the Borough or police officers of the Buffalo Valley
Regional Police Department under the direction of the Mayor or Borough
Council.
The metered parking lots established by this
article shall be for the use of passenger cars, passenger vans and
pickup trucks only, and it shall be unlawful for any person to park
any other type of vehicle in any of those lots.
[Amended 5-16-1989 by Ord. No. 849; 3-21-1995 by Ord. No.
898; 5-21-1996 by Ord. No. 904; 1-17-2006 by Ord. No. 973; 4-17-2012 by Ord. No. 1014]
A.
In off-street metered parking lots:
(1)
It shall be the duty of the police officers of the
Buffalo Valley Regional Police Department and parking enforcement
personnel of the Borough to report to the appropriate official all
violations of any provision of this article in off-street metered
parking lots indicating, in each case:
(a)
The number of each parking meter that indicates
that a vehicle occupying the adjacent parking space is, or has been,
parked in violation of any provision of this article;
(b)
The date and hour of the violation;
(c)
The license number of the vehicle; and
(d)
Any other facts, the knowledge of which is necessary
for a thorough understanding of the circumstances attending the violation.
(2)
The police officer or other person making the report shall also attach or place upon every such vehicle a notice to the owner or operator of the vehicle stating that the vehicle was parked in violation of this article and instructing the owner or operator of the vehicle that if he/she will place the sum of $10, enclosed within the envelope provided, in any of the special parking fine boxes installed at various locations within the Borough or report to the Borough Building and pay, for the use of the Borough, the sum of $10 within 48 hours after the time of the notice, or the sum of $15 after the said forty-eight-hour period has elapsed as a penalty, that act will save the violator from prosecution and from payment of the fine and costs prescribed in § 345-58A of this article.
[Amended 12-15-2015 by Ord. No. 1038; 5-17-2022 by Ord. No. 1068]
B.
In off-street unmetered parking lots:
(1)
It shall be the duty of the police officers of the
Buffalo Valley Regional Police Department and parking enforcement
personnel of the Borough to report to the appropriate official all
violations of any provision of this article in off-street unmetered
parking lots indicating, in each case:
(a)
The section violated;
(b)
The date and hour of the violation;
(c)
The license number of the vehicle involved in
the violation;
(d)
The location where the violation took place;
and
(e)
Any other facts, the knowledge of which is necessary
for a thorough understanding of the circumstances attending the violation.
(2)
The police officer or other person making the report shall also attach to or place upon every such vehicle a notice to the owner or operator of the vehicle stating that the vehicle was parked in violation of this article, and instructing the owner or operator of the vehicle that if he/she will place the sum of $15, enclosed within the envelope provided, in any of the special parking fine boxes installed at various locations within the Borough, or report to the office of the Police Chief of the Buffalo Valley Regional Police Department and pay, for the use of the Borough, the sum of $15 within 48 hours after the time of the notice, that act will save the violator from additional penalties and/or prosecution. Upon the failure of any owner or operator to pay the sum of $15 within the said period of 48 hours, the owner or operator shall, after the said forty-eight-hour period, pay as a penalty for an in full satisfaction of such violation the sum of $30, together with the costs of postage and certified or registered mail should a notice of such violation be forwarded to the said owner or operator by United States mail. The failure of such owner or operator to make such penalty payment within the time and at the place so specified for such violation shall render such owner or operator, who shall be cited within 30 days of the violation, subject to the fine and costs prescribed in § 345-58A of this article.
[Amended 12-20-1988 by Ord. No. 838; 5-16-1989 by Ord. No.
849; 3-21-1995 by Ord. No. 898; 5-21-1996 by Ord. No. 904]
A.
Any person who violates any provision of this article, with the exception of § 345-55, and who fails to pay the penalty set forth in either § 345-57A(1) or B(2) of this article, shall be cited within 30 days of the violation and upon conviction thereof in a summary proceeding before a District Justice, be sentenced to pay the amount of the aforesaid penalty and to also pay a fine of not less than $20 and not more than $600, plus costs of prosecution, for each offense and, in default of payment of such fine and costs, be imprisoned for a period not to exceed 30 days.
B.
Any person who violates any provision of § 345-55 of this chapter shall, upon conviction thereof in a summary proceeding before a District Justice, be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than $600 plus costs of prosecution, for each offense, and, in default of payment of such fine and costs, be imprisoned for a period not to exceed 30 days for each offense.
[Amended 5-16-1989 by Ord. No. 849; 4-16-1996 by Ord. No.
902; 5-21-1996 by Ord. No. 904; 11-20-2001 by Ord. No. 934]
A.
Establishment
of program; types of permits.
[Amended 4-17-2012 by Ord. No. 1012]
(1)
Establishment. There is hereby established a parking permit program, consisting of the three types of parking permits described in Subsection A(2) of this subsection, for the following off-street municipal parking lots:
(a)
Municipal Parking Lot No. 1, located between South Third Street and
South Fourth Street along White Pine Alley, consisting entirely of
48 metered parking spaces.
(b)
Municipal Parking Lot No. 2, known as the “Hufnagle Parking
Lot,” located between Market Street and St. Louis Street west
of South Fifth Street, consisting entirely of 45 metered parking spaces.
[Amended 7-21-2015 by Ord. No. 1035]
(c)
Municipal Parking Lot No. 6, located between North Second Street
and North Third Street along Cherry Alley, consisting entirely of
37 reserved parking spaces.
(2)
Types
of parking permits. The following two types of parking permits, as
described herein, may be issued:
[Amended 7-21-2015 by Ord. No. 1035]
(a)
Meter permit. This permit is for use in either Municipal Parking
Lot No. 1 or Municipal Parking Lot No. 2 but does not guarantee or
reserve to the holder thereof a metered parking space in the said
lots.
(b)
Reserve Permit Lot No. 6. This permit is for use only in Municipal
Parking Lot No. 6 and guarantees to the holder thereof a reserved
parking space, but not a particular parking space, in the said lot.
B.
Application for permits. Application for one of the types of parking permits described in Subsection A(1) of this section for a period of one to 12 months, as shall be determined from time to time by resolution of Borough Council, shall be made to the Police Chief of the Buffalo Valley Regional Police Department, or his designee, by the person desiring the permit, who shall be a registered owner or licensed driver of a motor vehicle. Each application shall be accompanied by a permit fee to be paid in advance. The said fee shall be established from time to time by resolution of Borough Council and shall be for the use of the Borough to defer the cost of administering the parking permit program. Each application shall contain the following information: the name, address and telephone number of the applicant; the name, address and telephone number of the applicant’s employer; the make, model and license plate number of the motor vehicle or vehicles to which the permit shall apply; and the driver number as taken from the applicant’s current driver’s license. At the discretion of the Police Chief of the Buffalo Valley Regional Police Department, or his designee, the applicant shall be required, at the time of making application, to present a current driver’s license and vehicle registration card. The maximum number of applications to be made in any period shall be limited to the number of available parking spaces in the aforesaid lots or such lesser number as set forth in Subsection A(1) of this section or as shall otherwise be determined from time to time by resolution of Borough Council.
[Amended 9-21-2010 by Ord. No. 998; 4-17-2012 by Ord. No. 1012; 4-17-2012 by Ord. No. 1014]
C.
Issuance of permit. Upon receipt of the application and the applicable permit fee, and after determination by the Police Chief of the Buffalo Valley Regional Police Department, or his designee, that the information contained in the application shows that the applicant is entitled to a parking permit, the Police Chief of the Buffalo Valley Regional Police Department, or his designee, shall issue to the applicant one of the types of parking permits described in Subsection A(1) of this section, which shall be valid for the period of time from one to 12 months for which the application is made as shall be determined from time to time by resolution of Borough Council. The permit shall display an assigned application number and/or such other information as required by the Police Chief of the Buffalo Valley Regional Police Department, or his designee, and also display the expiration date of the permit or, in the alternative, a color code or other code for determining such expiration date. The permit shall be renewable monthly, semiannually, annually or for such period of time as shall be determined from time to time by resolution of Borough Council before the expiration date, on a first-come-first-served basis, upon making application for renewal and payment of the applicable permit fee. It shall be unlawful and a violation of this Section for any person to display a permit or similar placard other than a current and valid permit while standing or parking a motor vehicle in the aforesaid lots at any time when such permit is required to be displayed.
[Amended 9-21-2010 by Ord. No. 998; 4-17-2012 by Ord. No. 1012; 4-17-2012 by Ord. No. 1014]
D.
Responsibility of permit holder.
(1)
Notwithstanding any provision of this article to the
contrary, the holder of a parking permit shall be permitted to stand
or park a motor vehicle operated by him or her in the aforesaid lots
during those times when parking of motor vehicles is permitted in
such lots. While a vehicle for which a parking permit has been issued
is so parked, that permit shall be displayed so as to be clearly visible
through the windshield of the vehicle.
[Amended 4-17-2012 by Ord. No. 1012]
(2)
A parking permit shall not authorize its holder to
stand or park a motor vehicle in any place where, or at any time when,
stopping, standing or parking of motor vehicles is prohibited or set
aside for other specified types of vehicles, nor shall the permit
exempt its holder from the observance of any traffic or parking regulation
other than such regulation or restriction which is in conflict with
the provisions of this section.
(3)
It shall constitute a violation of this section for
any person to falsely represent himself or herself as eligible for
a parking permit or to furnish false information in an application
to the Police Chief of the Buffalo Valley Regional Police Department,
or his designee, in order to obtain a parking permit for one of the
aforesaid lots.
[Amended 4-17-2012 by Ord. No. 1014]
E.
Revocation of permits. The Police Chief of the Buffalo
Valley Regional Police Department, or his designee, shall have authority
to revoke the parking permit of any permit holder found to be in violation
of any provision of this section. Upon written notification to him
or her of such revocation, the permit holder shall surrender the permit
to the Police Chief of the Buffalo Valley Regional Police Department,
or his designee. Failure to do so, when so requested, shall constitute
a violation of this section; provided, however, that any person receiving
such a notice may, within 10 days after the date of the notice, appeal
to Borough Council for a hearing on the revocation, and the decision
of Borough Council shall be final.
[Amended 4-17-2012 by Ord. No. 1014]
F.
Ticketing of vehicles parked unlawfully. Vehicles parked in violation of this section shall be ticketed as set forth in § 345-57 of this article.
G.
Removal of vehicles parked unlawfully. The Borough may remove any vehicle parked in an off-street unmetered parking lot in violation of this section by towing it or having it towed at the expense of the vehicle's owner. Nothing herein shall preclude the ticketing of unlawfully parked vehicles as provided in Subsection F of this section or the penalization of the owner thereof as provided in § 345-58A of this article.
