[HISTORY: Adopted by the Mayor and Council of the Borough
of Bloomsbury as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted
where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Vehicles and traffic — See Ch. 256.
[Adopted 4-14-1992 by Ord. No. 405-92]
For the purpose of this article, unless the context clearly
indicates a different meaning, the words below shall have the meanings
stated below:
A person who qualifies under the definition of N.J.S.A. 39:4-204
or 39:4-206 and who possess a handicapped person identification card
and a placard (prominently displayed in the front window dashboard
of the vehicle) and/or a handicapped license plate issued by the Director
of the Division of Motor Vehicles.
Any building, structure, facility or complex used by the
general public, including but not limited to municipal and/or government-owned
buildings, shopping malls, stores, markets, hotels, recreation facilities,
schools, office buildings, and public eating places, whether publicly
or privately owned, with the following exceptions: loading docks and
all buildings that involve highly combustible, flammable or explosive
material.
[Amended 12-9-2003 by Ord. No. 405-92-A[1]]
It shall be unlawful for any person to stop, park or stand a
motor vehicle in a legally designated handicapped parking space unless
such a person is a handicapped person or is transporting a handicapped
person and is using the handicapped parking space for the benefit
of said handicapped person. Any person who shall violate this section
shall be subject to a fine of $250 for the first offense. For subsequent
offenses, the fine shall be at least $250 and up to 90 days' community
service on such terms and in such form as the court deems appropriate,
or any combination thereof.
[Amended 12-9-2003 by Ord. No. 405-92-A]
Any vehicle illegally parked in a handicapped parking zone shall
be towed to a designated garage when a handicapped person requests
to the police that it be towed. The police and the Parking Enforcement
Officer, within their own authority, may have such vehicle towed (all
subject to state statutes). The charges for towing and storing such
vehicles shall be the responsibility of the owner of said vehicle.
This article shall be enforced by the New Jersey state police
and the Parking Enforcement Officer.
[Adopted 12-14-1999 by Ord. No. 102-99]
It is the purpose of this article to regulate the parking of
vehicles in public and quasi-public areas of the Borough of Bloomsbury
in order to protect the health, safety and welfare of residents and
other persons within the Borough.
No person shall occupy for purposes of sleeping, nor shall any
person permit, allow or suffer to be occupied for purposes of sleeping,
a parked motor vehicle (as defined in Title 39 of the statutes of
the State of New Jersey) within any area, public right-of-way, road,
street, alley, or lane or in any designated or nondesignated parking
space, area or lot that is open to or generally available for use
by the public with or without fee, except that the prohibition contained
herein shall not apply to persons lawfully parked on their own property,
or to vehicles that are ordinarily, initially and regularly designed
and equipped with a sleeping berth or compartment wholly within the
motor vehicle itself, provided, nonetheless, that said vehicle is
lawfully parked on private property with the consent of the owner
in a space or location designated for such use by the owner thereof
and approved for such use by the appropriate jurisdictional entity,
but not to exceed 12 hours in any twenty-four-hour period.
There shall exist a rebuttable presumption that any person occupying
a parked vehicle in excess of 15 minutes between the hours of 9:00
p.m. and 6:00 a.m. does so for the purpose of sleeping therein.
