[Amended by Ord. No. 17-82]
As used in this article, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
Includes the following days only: New Year's Day, Independence
Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day.
Includes the parking areas of places owned, controlled, managed,
operated or used by or leased to the Borough and now used for parking
as herein elsewhere defined, which parking areas or places are described
in Schedule XXIII and Schedule XXIV.
Includes any mechanical device or meter not inconsistent
with this article placed or erected for the regulation of parking
by authority of this article. Each parking meter installed shall,
when operated, at all times indicate the balance of legal parking
time, and at the expiration of such period, shall indicate illegal
or overtime parking. Each parking meter installed shall be proper
legend thereon, refer to instruction signs or other signs in, on or
adjacent to the parking areas, which signs shall control the legal
parking times and the use by the public of parking meters, parking
areas, parking spaces or any other parking requirements not inconsistent
with the provisions of this chapter.
Includes any space within any parking area upon which parking
meters are installed and in operation and described in Schedule XXIII.
Includes any space within any parking area described in Schedule
XXIV where persons who purchase permits from the Red Bank Police Department
may park.
A.
The Chief of Police is hereby directed and authorized under the direction
and supervision of the Borough Council to mark off individual parking
spaces in the parking areas designated and described in Schedule XXIII
and Schedule XXIV and in such other areas as may hereafter be established,
the parking spaces to be designated by lines painted or durably marked
on the curbing or the ground surfaces and to erect such instruction
signs or other instructions pertaining to one or more of the following:
parking time limit, costs of parking and the use by the public of
the parking meters, parking spaces, parking areas and other matter
not inconsistent with the provisions of this article.
In the parking areas described in Schedule XXIII and Schedule XXIV, the Chief of Police shall, under the direction and supervision of the Borough Council, cause parking meters to be installed conveniently adjacent to or near each of the parking spaces provided for in and by § 680-14 of this chapter and not more than four feet from the front of each of the parking spaces. No parking meter shall be installed within those areas where parking is prohibited pursuant to N.J.S.A. 39:4-138. The Chief of Police, under the direction and supervision of the Borough Council, shall be responsible for the regulation, control, operation, maintenance and use of such parking meters. Each device shall be so set as to display a signal showing legal parking upon the deposit of the appropriate coin or coins, lawful money of the United States of America, for the period of time prescribed in this article. Each device shall be so arranged that upon the expiration of the lawful time limit it will indicate by a proper visible signal that the lawful parking period has expired, and in such cases, the right of such vehicle to occupy such space shall cease and the operator, owner, possessor or manager thereof shall be subject to the penalties hereinafter provided.
[Amended by Ord. No. 1993-17; Ord. No. 2001-6; Ord. No. 2003-19; Ord. No. 2005-19; Ord. No. 2005-20; Ord. No. 2005-29]
A.
Except in a period of emergency, determined by the Borough Council,
or by the Chief of Police or other proper officer of the Fire or Police
Department, or by the Government of the United States or of the State
of New Jersey, 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 the parking meter space, immediately
deposit or cause to be deposited in the meter such proper coin of
the United States as is required for such parking meter and as is
designated by proper directions on the instruction signs or other
signs in, on or adjacent to the parking areas or on the parking meter,
and shall also set in operation the timing mechanism on such meter,
and the failure to deposit such proper coin and to set the timing
mechanism in operation shall constitute a violation of this chapter.
Upon the deposit of such coin and the setting of the timing mechanism
in operation, the parking space may be lawfully occupied by such vehicle
during the period of time prescribed for the parking of the parking
areas in which the 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 the space does not exceed the indicated unused
parking time. If the 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 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 chapter.
[Amended by Ord. No. 1987-8; Ord. No. 1989-18; Ord. No. 1995-9; Ord. No. 2001-6; Ord. No. 2004-40; Ord. No. 2005-29]
A.
Parking or standing a vehicle in a designated space in a parking area or section thereof shall be lawful upon the deposit of such proper coin for each hour or part of hour of parking time permitted by and as set forth on such instruction or other signs placed on or adjacent to the parking areas or sections thereof and referred to in §§ 680-15 and 680-17 of this chapter, as shall be applicable thereto.
B.
Parking meters shall be operated and used in accordance with Schedule
XXIII.
[Amended by Ord. No. 1989-18; Ord. No. 1993-17; Ord. No. 1995-19; Ord. No. 2001-6; Ord. No. 2003-19]
A.
Permits authorized. Parking or standing a vehicle in a designated
space in a permit parking zone shall be lawful upon the purchasing
of a permit. Upon paying the proper fee, a permit identification will
be issued and must be displayed on the vehicle when parked in the
permit parking zone as described in Schedule XXIV.
B.
Permit fees. Parking fees for permit parking shall be as follows:
[Added by Ord. No. 19-85; amended by Ord. No.
2001-6]
A.
No person shall park in any location designated as restricted parking
spaces for use by Borough employees and/or Red Bank firemen who have
been issued a special Borough of Red Bank identification decal. Said
decal is to be affixed to said vehicle. Locations described in Schedule
XXV.
B.
No person shall park any truck, van, sport utility vehicle, full-length
sedan, or any other oversized vehicle within any parking spaces within
the municipal parking lots of the Borough designated as "compact car
parking only" as specified in Schedule XX, which Schedule XX is hereby
incorporated into and made a part of this chapter.
[Added 9-11-2019 by Ord. No. 2019-56]
[Amended by Ord. No. 1991-7; Ord. No. 1993-30; Ord. No. 1996-10; Ord. No. 1999-19; Ord. No. 2000-22; Ord. No. 2000-37; Ord. No. 2001-7; Ord. No. 2002-19; Ord. No. 2003-40; Ord. No. 2003-42; Ord. No. 2004-43; Ord. No. 2005-2]
A.
No person shall park in any location designated as restricted parking
spaces for use by persons who have been issued special vehicle identification
cards by the Division of Motor Vehicles, same being described in Schedule
XXVI.
B.
All law enforcement officers may enforce the parking restrictions
on legally marked handicapped spaces on both public and private property.
C.
An eligible handicapped person may request a law enforcement officer
to arrange for the removal and storage of a motor vehicle which is
parked unlawfully in parking space or zone which is restricted for
use by a handicapped person. The cost of removal, and any storage
resulting from such removal, shall be paid by the owner of the motor
vehicle.
D.
Any person parking a motor vehicle in a restricted parking space
without a special vehicle identification card shall be liable to a
fine of $250 for the first offense and, for subsequent offenses, a
fine of at least $250 and up to 90 days of community service, on such
terms and in such form as the court shall deem appropriate, or any
combination thereof.
[Amended by Ord. No. 1987-8]
It shall be unlawful and a violation of the provisions of this
article for any person:
A.
To cause or permit any vehicle registered in the name of or operated
by such persons, to be parked overtime or beyond the period of legal
parking time established for any parking areas described in Schedule
XXIII.
B.
To permit any vehicle to remain or be placed in a parking space adjacent
to any parking meter while the meter is displaying a signal indicating
that the vehicle occupying such parking space has already been parked
beyond the period prescribed for such parking space.
C.
To cause or permit any vehicle registered in the name of or operated
by such person, to be parked in any permit parking area described
in Schedule XXIV without having a permit to do so and displaying same
on the sun visor of vehicle.
D.
To park any vehicle across any line or marking of a parking space
or in such position that the vehicle shall not be entirely within
the area designated by such lines or markings.
E.
To deface, injure, tamper with, open or willfully break, destroy
or impair the usefulness of any parking meter under the provisions
of this chapter.
F.
To deposit or cause to be deposited in any parking meter any slugs,
device or metal substance or other substitute for lawful coins.
G.
To use any designated parking space or parking meter or any parking
area otherwise than at the time and periods or otherwise than in the
manner specified or shown on the instruction sign or other sign erected
or to be erected from, in, on or adjacent to any parking area or contrary
to any instructions appearing on the parking meter.
H.
To park a vehicle in any municipal parking lot otherwise than by
causing the vehicle to be parked head in, with the front of the vehicle
toward or facing the curb or the closed front end of the parking space.
[Amended 10-28-2020 by Ord. No. 2020-20]
I.
It shall be unlawful and a violation of the provisions of this article
for any person to deposit or cause to be deposited in a parking meter
a second or other coin for the purpose of extending or increasing
the parking time of any vehicle beyond that which has been established
for the parking space adjacent to which the meter is placed.
J.
No vehicle shall be serviced or repaired on any municipal lot.
K.
No person shall destroy or damage any sign or marking used in any
on-street or off-street parking meter zone.
L.
It shall be unlawful for the owner or operator of any vehicle to
permit more than one vehicle, whether truck, car, or motorcycle, to
be parked in any one parking space or stall.
M.
No owner or operator of any motor vehicle shall park or permit to
be parked, a motor vehicle upon any portion of an off-street parking
lot not expressly laid out and designated for parking.
N.
The owner or operator of a vehicle shall immediately upon entering
a metered parking space deposit one or more coins of the United States
of America in the parking meter adjoining such parking meter space
and shall turn the lever to cause the parking meter to operate. Failure
to deposit the required coin or coins, or to turn the lever to operate
or to deposit a backup coin, shall constitute a violation of this
article.
O.
No owner or operator of a vehicle or other persons shall deposit
any refuse or other materials on municipal lots.
It shall be the duty of the Police Department to enforce the
provisions of this article.
It shall be the duty of the Chief of Police to designate some
member or members of the Police Department, under the direction and
supervision of the Borough Council, to make regular collections of
the money deposited in the meters, and it shall be the duty of such
person or persons so designated to remove from the parking meters,
the sealed container therein containing the coins so deposited in
the meters to and deliver such sealed containers, with the seals unbroken,
to the Treasurer of the Borough, or to such other person or persons
the Borough Council may designate, who shall under such regulations
as may be established by the Borough Council, break the seals and
count the funds and deposit such funds as directed by the Borough
Council.
The funds and revenue received by the Borough from the collection
of any coins deposited in the parking meters and the revenue collected
for permit parking identification cards are hereby appropriated and
dedicated to the cost of purchase, installation, maintenance and operation
of the parking meters herein referred to and any excess thereof, are
hereby appropriated and dedicated to the purpose of creation, purchase
and construction, maintenance and operation of other off-street parking
facilities.
[Amended by Ord. No. 2003-19]
Unless another penalty is expressly provided by New Jersey Statute,
every person violating any of the provisions of this article shall,
upon conviction thereof, be subject to a fine not to exceed $100,
or be imprisoned for a term not to exceed 15 days, or both.
[Added by Ord. No. 1989-18]
Any unoccupied vehicle parked or standing in violation of Articles II, III and IV of this chapter shall be deemed a nuisance and a menace to the safe and proper regulation of traffic, and any police officer, and/or parking enforcement officer may provide for the removal of such vehicle. The owner shall pay the reasonable costs of the removal and storage, which may result from such removal before regaining possession of the vehicle.
