[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Committee of the Township of Chesterfield 2-28-1991
as Ord. No. 1991-5. Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Vehicles and traffic — See Ch. 182.
The Township Committee of the Township of Chesterfield and the Chief
of Police of the Police Department of the Township of Chesterfield are hereby
authorized to establish restrictive parking spaces in front of residences,
schools, hospitals and other public buildings and in shopping and business
districts for use by persons who have been issued special vehicle identification
cards by the Division of Motor Vehicles pursuant to the provisions of N.J.S.A.
39:4-205, when using a motor vehicle on which is displayed a certificate for
which a special vehicle identification card has been issued pursuant to N.J.S.A.
39:4-206. Said restrictive parking spaces shall be designated by appropriate
signs which designate said spaces to be handicapped parking spaces.
It shall be unlawful and illegal for any operator of a vehicle to stand
or park a vehicle in any space on public or private property appropriately
marked for vehicles for the physically handicapped pursuant to N.J.S.A. 39:4-197.5,
N.J.S.A. 52:27D-119 et seq. or any other applicable law unless the vehicle
is authorized by law to be parked therein and a handicapped person is either
the driver or a passenger in that vehicle.
The provisions of this chapter shall be subject to enforcement by state,
county and/or municipal law enforcement officers or parking enforcement authority
officers on both public and private property.
Any person parking a motor vehicle in a restricted parking space without
a special vehicle identification card and parking a vehicle in violation of
this chapter shall be liable to a fine of $100 for the first offense and,
for subsequent offenses, a fine of at least $100 and up to 90 days' community
service, on such terms and in such form as the court shall deem appropriate,
or any combination thereof.
