The parking meters in the metered lots shall
be in operation, the parking lots shall be open for parking, and the
provisions of this Article regulating the operation of parking meters
and establishing parking time limits shall be in force on the days
and between the hours prescribed for the individual lots; but on Sundays
and legal holidays, no parking time limit shall apply and the placing
of coins in meters shall not be required.
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Editor's Note: Certain commentary, which preceded
and followed this section in the original ordinance, was omitted for
publication. The full text of this commentary is on file in the Borough
Secretary's office.
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, and, when the parking space is occupied and the parking
meter put into operation by the insertion of one or more coins, 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.
The 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 Article 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 marking 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 violation of
this Article for a person to:
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, as specified in the legend on the parking meter.
Upon the deposit of the coin or coins and placing the meter in operation,
the parking space may be lawfully occupied by the vehicle.
It shall be unlawful for any person to deposit
in any parking meter installed under the provisions of this Article
any slug or other substitute for a coin of the United States of America.
It shall be unlawful and a violation of this
Article for any person to permit a vehicle to remain in a parking
space adjacent to a parking meter installed under this Article 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 or coins was deposted in that meter
for the parking of that vehicle.
It shall be unlawful and a violation of this
Article 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 Article, provided that nothing in this section
shall apply to the servicing or opening of parking meters by officers,
employees or police officers of the borough under the direction of
the Mayor or 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 these lots.
A.
It shall be the duty of the police officers and parking
enforcement personnel of the borough, acting in accordance with the
directions of the Chief of Police, to report:
(1)
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.
(2)
The date and hour of the violation.
(3)
The license number of the vehicle.
(4)
Any other facts, the knowledge of which is necessary
for a thorough understanding of the circumstances attending the violation.
B.
The police officer or other person making the report shall also place on or attached to the vehicle a notice to the owner or driver of the vehicle that the vehicle was parked in violation of this article and instructing the owner or driver that if he/she will report to the office of the Chief of Police and pay, for the use of the borough, the sum of $1 within 48 hours after the time of the notice or will place the sum of $1, enclosed within the envelope provided, in any of the special parking fine boxes installed at various locations within the borough within that time limit, that act will save the violator from prosecution and from payment of the fine prescribed in § 213-63A of this article.
