[Amended 4-24-2017 by Ord. No. 2017-221-03]
Upon direction by the City Council, parking meters shall be installed upon the curb or sidewalk in reasonable proximity to the parking spaces marked by the City in accordance with § 221-38. The Police Department shall be responsible for the regulations, control and use of such parking meters, and the Department of Public Works shall be responsible for the maintenance of and collection from such parking meters. Each parking meter shall inform the parking customer of the expiration time at payment. In such cases, the automated parking meter system shall be used as evidence that the right of such vehicle has ceased, and the operator, owner or manager thereof shall be subject to the penalties hereinafter provided.
[Amended 4-24-2017 by Ord. No. 2017-221-03]
All City-owned or City-operated parking lots and parking structures
shall be public ways. Upon the direction of the City Council, their
use may be controlled as set forth in this chapter and/or by parking
meters or other traffic control devices. Parking spaces as laid out
therein and controlled by parking meters shall be of a design where
said parking meters shall charge for the spaces and such charges shall
be as established elsewhere in this article. The owner or operator
of any vehicle standing in said spaces shall cause to be deposited
in said meters the fee necessary to pay for the use of said space,
and the failure to provide such fee shall be a violation of the parking
laws.
[Amended 4-24-2017 by Ord. No. 2017-221-03]
Except in a period of emergency determined by an officer of
the Fire or Police Department or in compliance with the direction
of a police officer or traffic control device or signal, when any
vehicle shall be parked in any parking space, the operator of such
vehicle shall, upon entering said parking space, immediately deposit
or cause to be deposited in said meter the appropriate fee. Upon deposit
of such fee, the parking space may be lawfully occupied by such vehicle
during the period of time which has been prescribed for the part of
the street in which said parking space is located. If said vehicle
shall remain parked in any such parking space with no time remaining
on said meter, then 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 4-24-2017 by Ord. No. 2017-221-03]
In lieu of the deposit of the fee in a parking meter, the City Council may, by vote, direct that any parking meter space may be lawfully occupied by a vehicle without needing to pay the fee to be charged as required by § 221-39. Such vote shall specify the terms on which and the periods and consideration for which such permits shall be issued and the parking spaces for which they shall be valid. A copy of each such vote shall be filed with the City Clerk.
[Amended 4-22-1996 by Ord. No. 04.96.4; 6-25-1996 by Ord. No. 05.96.5; 6-9-1997 by Ord. No. 08.97.08; 4-24-2017 by Ord. No. 2017-221-03]
A.
Parking or standing a single four-wheeled vehicle or one or more
two-wheeled vehicles in a space designated for control by a parking
meter shall be lawful upon paying the parking fee indicated on the
face of the parking meter.
B.
Parking meters located on Lakeside Avenue shall be operated as follows:
(2)
The following fees shall be collected so that a vehicle may occupy:
(a)
A Lakeside Avenue parking space governed by a parking meter:
one hour for $2; for a lesser time, in increments of 15 minutes: the
appropriate percentage of the hourly rate.
[Amended 5-9-2022 by Ord. No. 2022-221]
(b)
An Endicott Rock Park parking lot space: one hour for $2.50;
for a lesser time, in increments of 15 minutes: the appropriate percentage
of the hourly rate.
[Amended 5-9-2022 by Ord. No. 2022-221]
C.
The minimum fee when using a credit or debit card shall be $1.
It shall be unlawful and a violation of the provisions of this
chapter for any person to:
A.
Cause, allow, permit or suffer any vehicle registered in the name
of or occupied by such person to be parked overtime or beyond the
period of legal parking time established for any parking meter or
to deposit in any parking meter any coin for the purpose of parking
beyond the maximum legal parking time for the particular parking meter.
If said vehicle remains in such parking space at a time when a visible
signal on said parking meter indicates that the time limit has expired,
then such vehicle shall be considered as parking overtime and shall
be deemed in violation of this chapter.
B.
Permit any vehicle to remain or be placed in any parking space adjacent
to any parking meter while said meter is displaying a signal indicating
that vehicle occupying such parking space has already been parked
beyond the period prescribed for such parking space.
C.
Park any vehicle across any line or marking of a parking meter space
or in such position that the vehicle shall not be entirely within
the area designated by such lines or markings, unless such vehicle
is too large to park within one such parking meter space.
D.
Deface, injure, tamper with, open or willfully break, destroy or
impair the usefulness of any parking meter installed under the provisions
of this chapter.
E.
Deposit or cause to be deposited in any parking meter any slugs,
device or metal substance or other substitutes for lawful coins of
the United States of America.
[Amended 7-23-2007 by Ord. No. 11.2007.11]
It shall be the duty of the City Public Works Director to designate
some member of the City Public Works Director's department to make
regular collections of the money deposited in said meters, and it
shall be the duty of such person so designated to remove from the
parking meters the money therein and to deliver to the City Public
Works Director the money so collected to be deposited directly at
the bank.
[Amended 4-24-2017 by Ord. No. 2017-221-03]
The fees deposited in parking meters are required and shall
be considered a general revenue of the City, except for those meters
located in the municipal lot known as "Endicott Rock Park" which shall
be deposited into the Special Revenue Fund/Beach Refurbishment Fund
after the amount collected exceeds $25,000 in the fiscal year.
Nothing in this article shall prevent the holding of certain
parking meters as a reservation for special uses with approval of
the City Council, and any vehicle parked in violation of such special
use shall be deemed in violation.
