This article shall be construed to assist in
the regulation of overtime parking by the use of parking meters and
shall be likewise construed as a supplement to the general traffic
ordinances of the Village for the preservation of peace, health, safety
and property.
As used in this article, the following words,
terms and phrases shall have the meanings herein ascribed to them:
Any person who operates or drives a vehicle upon any public
street or highway in the Village.
The stopping of a vehicle unattended by a person capable
of driving or operating the same for a period longer than necessary
to load or unload passengers.
A device or devices, which shall indicate thereon the length
of time during which a vehicle may be parked in a particular place,
containing a mechanism to indicate the interval of time during which
parking is permissible.
Any device in, upon or by which any person or property is
or may be transported upon a public street or highway, except such
as are operated exclusively by human power.
For the purpose of this article, portions of
Main Street and other streets, in accordance with a map duly prepared
by the Village Engineer and on file in the office of the Village Clerk,
are hereby designated as parking meter zones and shall be subject
to the provisions of this article. (See also Schedule XVIII, Time
Limit Parking.)
The Board of Trustees may by resolution designate
additional parking meter zones from time to time as it deems advisable
in the public interest and as traffic conditions require. The Board
may likewise, by resolution, discontinue any such zone or part thereof
at any time it may so elect.
The Village Engineer is hereby authorized and directed to designate and mark off such individual parking spaces as he deems proper along portions of Main Street and other streets as designated by the map provided for in § 264-42.
The Village Engineer shall cause parking meters to be installed at the spaces provided for in § 264-44, subject, however, to the approval of the New York State Highway Department and State Traffic Commission. Such parking meters shall be placed on the curbline along the side of or next to such individual parking spaces, and each of said parking meters shall be so placed as to display a signal that the parking space covered by such meter is or is not in use, and said meters shall be under the management, supervision and control of the Police Department of the Village.
[Amended 12-7-2021 by L.L. No. 10-2021]
A.
The fees for parking a vehicle in a metered or paid
parking area shall be at a rate as set forth by action of the Village
Board.
B.
Each parking meter shall have clearly evidenced thereon
the periods of legal parking for the coin or number of coins deposited
therein, for the information of the public. Each such meter shall
clearly start in motion and continue in operation from the time of
depositing such coin or coins until the expiration of the time fixed
by this article as the parking limit for such coins so deposited.
Each such meter shall likewise indicate by its time mechanism the
passage of the interval of time during which parking is permissible
and shall also display an appropriate signal when the aforesaid interval
of time shall have expired.
The Board of Trustees shall have the authority
to designate parking time limits for the various parking meter zones,
and parking shall be permitted in the parking meter spaces in such
zones for a period not to exceed the amount of time specified on the
parking meter signal legend.
[Amended 12-7-2021 by L.L. No. 10-2021]
A.
Duty of operator; effect of deposit. Wherever any
vehicle shall be parked in any space adjacent to a parking meter or
Village-owned paid parking area, the owner, operator or driver thereof
shall, upon entering said parking space, immediately deposit a coin
or coins of the United States in the parking meter alongside of said
parking space, or immediately remit payment via the designated parking
payment application made available for the said metered zone or paid
parking area. Said parking space may then be used for the length of
time for which payment was rendered within the parking limits as provided
herein for the part of the street in which said parking space is located.
B.
Overtime parking. If said vehicle remains for a greater
length of time than is permitted in said parking space, an indication
showing illegal parking shall be made by the parking meter and/or
the parking payment application, and in that event such vehicle shall
be considered as parked overtime, and the parking of vehicles overtime
or beyond the period of time fixed by this article on such street
and in said space shall be a violation of this article. It shall be
unlawful for any person to cause, allow, permit or suffer any such
vehicle registered in his name to be parked overtime or beyond the
lawful period of time.
Any vehicle which remains in an individual parking
space after the prescribed time for parking is hereby determined to
be illegally parked, but in no event shall it be considered illegal
parking if the meter display signal shows that proper deposit has
been made for such parking.
[Amended 12-7-2021 by L.L. No. 10-2021]
The provisions of this article relating to parking
in metered spaces shall be applicable only on Monday through Saturday
between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m., legal holidays excepted.
The Police Department or the Department of Public
Works may establish temporary restrictions on parking in such locations
and during such hours as may be deemed necessary by placing hoods
or covers upon and over parking meters in such locations, which may
be established for loading, unloading or as necessity may require,
and parking in such temporary restricted zones is hereby prohibited.
[Amended 12-17-2002; 10-6-2015 by L.L. No. 7-2015; 4-19-2016 by L.L. No. 3-2016]
Metered on-street parking throughout the Village of Johnson
City is prohibited from December 1 through March 31, from the hours
of 12:01 a.m. to 6:00 a.m.
A.
At each place where individual parking spaces are
marked off or otherwise provided for, each vehicle shall be parked
entirely within such individual parking space, and failure to park
entirely within the same shall constitute illegal parking.
B.
All vehicles parked under this article shall be parked
parallel to the curb unless otherwise provided, and any vehicle parked
in any parking space in any parking meter zone shall be parked with
the hood of such vehicle alongside of or next to the parking meter
located at such parking space, except as otherwise provided.
[Amended 10-18-2016 by L.L. No. 6-2016]
Monthly parking shall be permitted at metered parking stalls in municipal parking lots and at on-street parking meters except for Main, Harrison, Baldwin and Arch Streets. Said tag shall be purchased from the Village Clerk for a monthly fee as determined by the Board of Trustees upon resolution. The tag must be displayed from the rear view mirror of the vehicle. Said tag will not permit parking at on-street meters in violation of § 264-33 or 264-27. Failure to display a tag will result in the ticketing of the vehicle.
It shall be unlawful and a violation of the
provisions of this article for any person:
A.
To park in any parking space where a meter is installed
when such meter displays a signal showing that parking is not permitted
unless a coin is deposited in such meter. Any vehicle parked in contravention
to this article shall be illegally parked, and such parking under
this section, unless a proper coin is deposited in such meter, shall
be deemed prima facie evidence of the unlawful parking of such motor
vehicle by its operator and/or owner.
B.
To deposit or cause to be deposited in any parking
meter a coin or coins for the purpose of extending or continuing time
of a then legally parked vehicle beyond the legal time limit fixed
by this article in a space where a parking meter is placed.
C.
To deface, injure, tamper with, open or willfully
break, destroy or impair the usefulness of any parking meter installed
under this article.
D.
To deposit or cause to be deposited in any parking
meter a slug, device or metallic substance or any other substitute
for a five-cent United States coin or a ten-cent United States coin.
E.
To park in an area designated as a place for parking
for handicapped persons unless such parking is pursuant to a permit
issued by the Village to a handicapped person. Such permit must be
displayed to a law enforcement officer upon request.
F.
To park in a reserved monthly parking area without
a monthly parking tag or without displaying a monthly parking tag.
It shall be the duty of each traffic patrolman,
such other officer or such other designee of the Village of Johnson
City as shall be instructed by the Chief of Police to report:
A.
The number of any meter which indicates that the vehicle
occupying the parking space adjacent thereto is or has been parked
in violation of any of the provisions of this article and all other
circumstances necessary to a thorough understanding of such violation.
B.
The state license number of such vehicle.
C.
The time during which such vehicle is parked in violation
of the provisions of this article.
Each police officer or designee of the Village
of Johnson City shall attach to any vehicle parked in violation of
this article a notice to the owner thereof that such vehicle has been
parked in violation of the provisions of this article and instructing
such owner or operator to report to the office of the Village Justice
in regard to such violation.
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Editor's Note: Former § 264:58, Payment of fine; failure
to pay, was repealed 10-18-2016 by L.L. No. 7-2016.
Collection of all coins deposited in parking
meters as herein provided shall be made by officers of the Police
Department or such other designee of the Village of Johnson City under
such rules and regulations as shall be hereafter established. In collection
of such coins, the officer or officers designated shall remove the
coins from each parking meter and deliver the same in its entirety
to the Village Treasurer, who shall count the coins and deposit the
amount in the fund designated in the Village general fund.
