A.
In the streets or parts of streets of the City of Newburgh described in Schedule XXXI (§ 288-89), attached to and made a part of this chapter, and hereafter established as parking meter zones and in said zones and in such other parking meter zones as may be hereafter created by ordinances of the City, parking meters shall be installed, operated, maintained, policed and supervised. It shall be unlawful and an offense for any person to cause, allow, permit or suffer any vehicle to remain parked in any parking space alongside of or next to which any such parking meter is placed while said meter is displaying a signal showing that such vehicle shall have been already parked beyond the period of time fixed for such parking space.
B.
The City Manager is hereby authorized to have parking meters installed
in such parking meter zones as are created by this article or which
shall be created by any other ordinance of the City. Such parking
meters shall be placed alongside of or next to individual parking
spaces to be designated as hereinafter provided. Each said parking
meter shall be so set as to show or display a signal that the parking
space alongside of same is or is not in use.
C.
On public streets where meters are installed, the parking time limit
in each parking space shall be the period designated on the respective
meter alongside each such space. The City Manager and the Police Chief
shall cause each such meter to indicate, by appropriate legend thereon,
a time limit for parking in each such space. Where no such indication
appears on such meter, the parking time limit shall be one hour. In
parking lots or areas other than a public street, where meters are
installed, the parking time limit in each parking space shall be the
period designated by the City Manager and the Police Chief, and of
which notice shall be posted on conspicuous signs within the respective
areas.
D.
Unless stated otherwise herein, parking or standing a vehicle in
a designated space in a parking meter zone on the public streets shall
be lawful for 15 minutes upon the deposit of $0.25 United States legal
tender.
[Amended 2-8-1988 by Ord. No. 10-88; 8-12-1991 by Ord. No. 28-91; 2-10-1992 by Ord. No. 2-92; 1-23-2012 by Ord. No. 1-2012; 2-28-2022 by Ord. No. 1-2022]
(1)
Parking
or standing a vehicle in a designated space in a parking meter zone
on Front Street shall be lawful for a maximum of three hours at a
rate of $2 United States legal tender per hour.
(2)
Parking
or standing a vehicle in a designated space in a parking meter zone
in the City parking lots at 63 Front Street and 70 Front Street shall
be lawful for a maximum of three hours at a rate of $2 United States
legal tender per hour.
E.
Unless stated otherwise herein, parking meters on all public streets shall be operated between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. on all days except Sunday. Parking meters in City parking lots shall be operated during those hours established by the City Manager pursuant to his authority under § 288-35. Where the City Manager has not exercised such authority, such parking meters shall be operated between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. on all days except Sunday.
[Amended 1-22-2001 by Ord. No. 2-2001; 1-23-2012 by Ord. No.
1-2012; 2-28-2022 by Ord. No. 1-2022]
(1)
Parking
meters on Front Street shall be operated between the hours of 11:00
a.m. and 11:00 p.m. on all days except Sunday.
(2)
Parking
meters in the City parking lots at 63 Front Street and 70 Front Street
shall be operated between the hours of 11:00 a.m. and 11:00 p.m. on
all days except Sunday.
A.
The City Manager shall provide for the installation, operation, maintenance,
policing and supervision of parking meters and shall see that said
meters are kept in good workable condition.
B.
Each meter shall by its device clearly set out and continue operation
from the time of depositing such coin until the expiration of the
said parking limit. Each said meter shall also be so arranged that
upon the expiration of said parking limit it will indicate that the
lawful parking period so fixed by this article or any other ordinance
of the City has expired.
C.
The City Manager, or such officers or employees of the City as he
shall select, shall mark off individual parking spaces in all parking
meter zones, said parking spaces to be designated by lines painted
or durably marked on the curbing or surface of the streets, lots and
areas comprising the parking meter zones. It shall be unlawful and
an offense to park any vehicle across any such line or mark, or to
park such vehicle in such a way that the same shall not be entirely
within the limits of the space so designated by such lines or marking.
Any vehicle parked in any parking space in a parking meter zone shall
be parked with the hood of said vehicle alongside of or next to the
parking meter adjacent to such parking space, and said vehicle shall
be parked within the lines marked on the curb or surface of the pavement
as hereinbefore provided.
A.
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 directions 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.
Upon the 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, or parking area or lot, 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.
C.
If said vehicle shall remain parked in any such parking space beyond
the parking time limit set for such 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.
D.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, any vehicle
displaying a handicapped parking permit issued in accordance with
§ 1203-a of the Vehicle and Traffic Law, or any vehicle
being registered pursuant to § 404-a of the Vehicle and
Traffic Law as being owned by a severely disabled person, may park
in any metered parking space without depositing or causing to be deposited
in said meter any coin.
A.
It shall be unlawful for any unauthorized 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 to deposit or cause to be deposited in any parking
meter any slug, device or substitute for the coins of the United States
herein specified.
B.
The coins required to be deposited as provided herein are hereby
levied and assessed as fees to provide for the proper regulation and
control of traffic upon the public streets and also the cost of supervising
and regulating the parking of vehicles in the parking meter zones
created hereby and to cover the cost of purchasing, acquiring, installation,
operation, maintenance, supervision, regulation and control of the
parking meters and parking areas and the enforcement of the provisions
of this article.
C.
It shall be the duty of the City Manager to designate an employee
or employees of the City to maintain the said meters and to make regular
inspection and service of the same and to make regular collections
of the money deposited in said meters. It shall be the duty of such
person or persons so designated to take out the coins which are deposited
in parking meters and promptly deliver the same to the City Comptroller,
whose duty it shall be to count the funds so collected and deposit
the same to the credit of the City in a special fund called the "parking
meter fund," which fund shall be disbursed on order of the Common
Council of the City. The duties prescribed to the officer and/or officers
or employees of the City under the provisions of this section shall
be in addition to the regular duties which they are now performing.
D.
Enforcement.
[Amended 10-10-1989 by Ord. No. 31-89; 4-25-1994 by Ord. No. 10-94; 1-23-2012 by Ord. No. 1-2012; 11-26-2012 by Ord. No.
9-2012]
(1)
Reports of violations. It shall be the duty of the police officers
of the City, or parking enforcement officers, acting in accordance
with instructions issued by the Chief of Police, to report:
(a)
The number of each parking meter which indicates that the vehicle
occupying the parking space adjacent to such parking meter is or has
been parked or standing in violation of any of the provisions of this
article.
(b)
The state license number of such vehicle.
(c)
The time during which such vehicle is parked or standing in
violation of any of the provisions of this article at the time of
his inspection.
(d)
Any other facts or knowledge which is necessary to a thorough
understanding of the circumstances attending such violation.
(2)
Notices of violations. Each such police officer or parking enforcement officer 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 and summoning such owner or operator to respond in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 70, Parking Violations Bureau, of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Newburgh.
E.
Removal of vehicle parked in violation of article.
(1)
Whenever any vehicle shall be found parked or standing overtime in
any parking meter space or shall be found parked or standing therein
in violation of any of the provisions of this article, such vehicle
may be removed and conveyed by or under the direction of a member
of the Department of Police by means of towing the same, or otherwise,
to a vehicle pound; and such removal shall be at the risk of the owner
of such vehicle.
(2)
Before the owner or person in charge of such vehicle shall be permitted
to remove the same from the custody of the police, he shall furnish
evidence of his identity and ownership of right or possession and
shall sign a receipt for such vehicle and shall pay to the Comptroller
or his designated representative, who shall be an employee of the
City, the reasonable cost and expenses, if any, and storage fees.
