[Adopted 11-10-1975 by L.L. No. 5-1975 as Ch. 142, Art. II of the 1975 Code]
[Amended 3-2-1981 by L.L. No. 2-1981]
As used in this article, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
OPERATOR
Includes every individual who shall operate a vehicle as the owner thereof or as the agent, employee or permittee of the owner.
PARKING ENFORCEMENT PERSON
Any employee of the Village of Canton designated by the Board of Trustees as having the duty to enforce the parking regulations contained in the Village Code of the Village of Canton.
PERSON
Includes any individual, firm, copartnership or corporation.
STREET
Any public street, avenue, road, boulevard, highway or other public place located in the Village of Canton and established for the use of vehicles.
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.
[Amended 12-4-1978 by L.L. No. 5-1978; 5-7-1979 by L.L. No. 5-1979]
A. 
The Village Mayor is hereby authorized to immediately establish zones to be known as "parking meter zones" in the following streets and places. The time of parking in these parking meter zones shall be limited as stated.
[Amended 9-19-1983 by L.L. No. 6-1983]
Street
Side
Time Limit
Location
Court Street
East
2 hours
From Main Street 270 feet northerly
Court Street
West
2 hours
From Main Street to the south side of Chapel Street
Hodskin Street
Both
2 hours
From Main Street to the south end of Barbours Alley
Main Street
Both
2 hours
From the east bridge over the Grasse River to Park Place
Miner Street
East
2 hours
From Main Street to the south end of the Town Hall
Park Street
Both
2 hours
From Main Street to the north side of the Eskimo Store
Park Street
West
2 hours
From the driveway next to the post office to the Eskimo Store
B. 
The limitations upon the hours of parking herein prescribed shall be effective from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. on weekdays. They shall not be effective on Sundays and holidays.
C. 
Parking spaces shall be marked upon the pavement within the parking meter zones herein established, and a parking meter shall be placed adjacent to each such parking space located not less than one foot back of the curbline and approximately three feet in advance of the forward boundary of such parking space. Said parking spaces shall be so located that no vehicle will be parked within 10 feet of any crossing or intersection, within 10 feet of any fire hydrant, between a safety zone and the adjacent curb, in front of a private driveway or within 100 feet of the approach to any bridge.
D. 
The Village Mayor is authorized to establish parking meter zones from time to time hereafter, as traffic conditions require, in such other streets and places as are selected by resolution of the Board of Trustees of the Village of Canton for the location of such zones.
E. 
In said parking meter zones the Village Mayor shall cause parking meters to be installed and parking meter spaces to be designated as herein provided, and shall fix the time limitations for legal parking in such zones, the hours during the day and night when the parking meter or meters must be used and when the time limitations shall be effective, in compliance with the provisions of this article. Time limitations shall be indicated by designating the same on the parking meter or meters or by appropriate signs posted in proximity to said meter or meters in said zones.
The Village Mayor is hereby directed to provide for the purchase, acquiring, installation, operation, maintenance, supervision, regulation and use of the parking meters provided for in this article and to maintain said meters in good workable condition. The Village Mayor is hereby vested with power and authority to enter into a contract of purchase on approval of the terms and conditions thereof by the Board of Trustees of the Village of Canton.
Parking meters installed in the parking meter zones established as provided in § 312-22 hereof shall be placed upon the curb immediately adjacent to the individual parking places hereinafter described. Each parking meter shall be placed or set in such manner as to show or display by a signal that the parking space adjacent to such meter is or is not legally in use. Each parking meter installed shall indicate by a proper legend the legal parking time established by the Village and when operated shall indicate on or by its dial and pointer the duration of the period of legal parking, and upon expiration of such period, shall indicate illegal parking or over-parking.
The Village Mayor shall have lines or markings painted or placed upon the curb and/or upon the street adjacent to each parking meter for the purpose of designating the parking space for which said meter is to be used and each vehicle parking adjacent or next to any parking meter shall park within the lines or markings so established. It shall be unlawful and a violation of this article to park any vehicle across any such line or marking or to park said vehicle in such position that the same shall not be entirely within the area so designated by such lines or markings.
When a parking space in any parking meter zone is parallel with the adjacent curb or sidewalk, any vehicle parked in such parking space shall be parked with the foremost part of such vehicle nearest to such meter.
No person shall park any vehicle on Main Street, Riverside Drive or any other street used by, as or for a state route in the Village of Canton, other than parallel with the edge of the pavement or curb and headed in the direction of traffic.
A. 
When a vehicle shall be parked in any space adjacent to which a parking meter is located in accordance with the provisions of this article, the operator of said vehicle shall, upon entering said parking space, immediately deposit or cause to be deposited one or more one-cent coins, or one five-cent coin in such parking meter, and put such meter in operation. Failure to deposit such coin or coins and put the meter in operation shall constitute a breach of this article and shall subject such person to the penalty prescribed in § 312-33 hereof. Upon the deposit of such coins of such specified values and placing said meter in operation, the parking space may be lawfully occupied by such vehicle during the period of parking time which has been prescribed for the part of the street in which said parking space is located. If said vehicle shall remain parked in any such parking space beyond the parking time limit fixed for such parking space, the parking meter shall, by its dial and pointer, indicate such illegal parking, and in that event, such vehicle shall be considered as parked overtime and beyond the period of legal parking time. The parking of a vehicle overtime or beyond the period of legal parking time in any such part of a street where any such meter is located shall be a violation of this article and punished as hereinafter set out.
B. 
Commercial trucks may park in the parking zones to load or unload merchandise without depositing coins for a period not to exceed 30 minutes. Should any truck or delivery car be parked longer than 30 minutes said violator will be given a ticket and classed as a violation, and the regular penalty shall be imposed.
A. 
It shall be unlawful and a violation of the provisions of this article for any person 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.
B. 
It shall be unlawful and a violation of the provisions of this article for any person 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 of time prescribed for such parking space.
It shall be unlawful and a violation of the provisions of this article for any person 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.
It shall be unlawful and a violation of the provisions of this article to deposit or cause to be deposited in any parking meter any slug, device or metallic substance or any other substitute for the specified coin or coins.
[Amended 3-2-1981 by L.L. No. 2-1981]
A. 
It shall be the duty of police officers and parking enforcement persons of said Village, acting in accordance with instruction issued by the Chief of Police, to report:
(1) 
The number of each parking meter which indicated that the vehicle occupying the parking space adjacent to such parking meter is or has been parking in violation of any of the provisions of this article.
(2) 
The state license number of such vehicle.
(3) 
The time during which such vehicle is parking in violation of any of the provisions of this article.
(4) 
Any other facts, a knowledge of which is necessary for a thorough understanding of the circumstances attending such violation.
B. 
Each such police officer or parking enforcement person shall also attach to such vehicle a notice to the owner or operator thereof that such vehicle has been parked in violation of a provision of this article and instructing such owner or operator to report to the Village Parking Violations Bureau in regard to such violation. Each such owner or operator may, within 10 days of the date when such notice was attached to such vehicle, pay to the Village Parking Violations Bureau, as a penalty for and in full satisfaction of such violation, the sum of $5. If the payment is not made within the ten-day period, then the penalty shall increase to $10. The failure of such owner or operator to make such payment within 10 days of the date the notice was attached to the vehicle shall render such owner or operator subject to the penalties hereinafter provided for violations of the provision of this article.
[Amended 11-2-1981 by L.L. No. 6-1981; 8-17-1987 by L.L. No. 2-1987; 8-21-1998 by L.L. No. 17-1998]
[Amended 11-2-1981 by L.L. No. 6-1981; 8-17-1987 by L.L. No. 2-1987]
Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this article, and any person who aides, abets or assists therein, shall, upon conviction thereof by the Village Justice, be subject to a fine in the amount of $10 for each such offense or violation; if said payment is not made within 10 days of such conviction, then such penalty shall increase to $15.
The specified coin or coins required to be deposited in parking meters as provided herein are hereby levied and assessed as fees to provide for the proper regulation and control of traffic upon the public streets, to cover the cost of supervision and regulation of the parking of vehicles in the parking meter zones created hereby, and to cover the cost of the purchasing, acquiring, installation, operation, maintenance, supervision, regulation and control of the parking meters described herein.
This article shall be deemed to be in addition and supplementary to and not in conflict with nor a repeal of prior or existing ordinances of said Village, but shall be an additional provision for the regulation of traffic and parking in those zones provided for herein.
[Added 3-2-1981 by L.L. No. 2-1981]
Each parking enforcement person shall be, and hereby is, authorized to issue and serve appearance tickets with respect to violations of the parking regulations of the Village Code of the Village of Canton.