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Village of Ridgefield Park, NJ
Bergen County
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[Amended 9-13-1988 by Ord. No. 21-88; 9-24-1991 by Ord. No. 12-91]
The following-described streets or parts of streets are hereby designated as parking meter zones. Vehicles will be permitted to park for a maximum of two hours during the times and days shown below.
Name of Street
Side
Hours/Days
Location
Cedar Street
North
8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m./every day, except Sundays and holidays
From Main Street to Spruce Avenue
Cedar Street
South
8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m./every day, except Sundays and holidays
From easterly curbline of Main Street to a point 80 feet east of Main Street
Grove Street
Both
8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m./every day, except Sundays and holidays
From westerly curbline of Main Street to a point 104 feet west of Main Street
Main Street
Both
8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m./every day, except Sundays and holidays
Pine Street to Poplar Street
Mt. Vernon Street
Both
8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m./every day, except Sundays and holidays
From Bergen Avenue to Lincoln Avenue
Municipal Parking Lot II (Park Street Lot)
[Amended 3-27-2012 by Ord. No. 2012-03]
7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m./every day
Block 80, Lot 9
Municipal Parking Lot III (Cedar Street Lot)
[Amended 3-27-2012 by Ord. No. 2012-03]
7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m./every day
Block 89, Lot 24
Park Street
Both
8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m./every day, except Sundays and holidays
From easterly curbline of Main Street to a point 109 feet east of Main Street
Park Street
North
8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m./every day, except Sundays and holidays
From westerly curbline of Main Street to a point 105 feet west of Main Street
Park Street
South
8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m./every day, except Sundays and holidays
From westerly curbline of Main Street to a point 100 feet west of Main Street, for a length of 100 feet
The Chief of Police shall have the responsibility for installation of parking meters and posting signs in proximity to such meters in such zones adopted by the municipality.
Parking meters installed in parking meter zones shall be placed upon the curb immediately adjacent to the individual parking places. Each parking meter shall be placed or set in such manner as to show or display by 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 and, when operated, shall indicate on and by its dial and pointer the duration of such period and shall indicate illegal or over parking. No meter shall be installed in any area when parking is prohibited pursuant to the provisions of N.J.S.A. 39:4-138.
The Chief of Police shall have lines or markings painted or placed upon the curb or upon the street adjacent to each parking meter for the purpose of designating the parking space for which such meter is to be used. It shall be unlawful to park any vehicle across any such lines or markings or to park such vehicle in such position that the same shall not be entirely within the area so designated by such lines or markings.
A. 
Fees.
[Amended 9-24-1991 by Ord. No. 12-91; 9-28-2010 by Ord. No. 2010-07]
(1) 
When any vehicle is parked in any parking space that has been designated by the Village as metered parking, the operator of such vehicle shall, upon entering the parking space, immediately deposit or cause to be deposited the sum of $0.25 for each 30 minutes that such vehicle is to be left in its parked position.
B. 
The failure to deposit such coins shall constitute a violation of this article. Upon the deposit of such coins and placing such meter in operation, the provided space may be lawfully occupied by such vehicle during the period of time prescribed for the part of the street in which the parking space and parking meter are located.
[Amended 9-24-1991 by Ord. No. 12-91]
A. 
If any vehicle shall remain parked in any parking meter space beyond the parking time fixed for such parking space, the parking meter shall, by dial pointer, indicate such illegal parking, and 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 part of a street where any parking meter is located shall be a violation of this article.
B. 
It shall be unlawful 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. It shall be unlawful for any person to permit a vehicle to remain in any parking space adjacent to any parking meter when such 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.
C. 
It shall be unlawful for any vehicle to remain in a parking meter zone longer than two hours.
It shall be unlawful to deposit or cause to be deposited in any parking meter any slug, device or metallic substitute or any other substitute for a lawful coin of the United States of America.
It shall be unlawful 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.
[Amended 9-28-2010 by Ord. No. 2010-07]
Each Village police officer or other authorized agent of the Village who finds a vehicle parked in violation of this article shall 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 police headquarters in regard to such violation. Each such owner or operator may, within the time stated on such notice, pay to the Violations Clerk at police headquarters, as a penalty for and in full satisfaction of such violation, the amount of $25.