Parking meter zones are established upon and along certain streets
in the Borough of Wilmerding, as follows:
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Street
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Between
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Airbrake Avenue
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Bridge Street and Miller Street
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Bridge Street
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Railroad crossing northwardly and Middle Avenue
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Caldwell Avenue
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Commerce Street and Pitcairn Street
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Commerce Street
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Herman Avenue and Caldwell Avenue
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Herman Avenue
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Station Street and Commerce Street
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Station Street
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Herman Avenue and Bridge Street
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Watkins Avenue
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Bridge Street and Patton Street
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Westinghouse Avenue
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Station Street and Herman Avenue
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Parking meters shall be operated by the deposit of a coin in
the meter, as prescribed by § 285-48, and the parking rates
for specified lengths of time, as well as the maximum parking times
prescribed in § 285-44, shall apply at all times between
the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. Monday through Thursday and Saturday,
and between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m. Friday, in the parking
meter zones listed in § 285-44; provided, however, the requirements
of this chapter as to parking time limit and as to deposit of coins
in meters shall not apply on Borough holidays.
Parking meters installed in the parking meter zones established
by § 285-44 of this chapter shall be placed upon the curb
or sidewalk and immediately adjacent to the individual parking spaces
described in § 285-47 of this chapter. Each parking meter
shall be placed or set so as to show that the parking space adjacent
to that meter is or is not legally occupied. Each parking meter installed
shall indicate by a proper legend the legal parking time established
by the Borough, and when the adjacent space is occupied by a vehicle,
the parking meter shall indicate on and by its dial and pointer the
duration of the period of legal parking and, on the expiration of
that period, shall indicate illegal parking or over-parking.
Lines and/or markings shall be painted or placed upon the curb,
sidewalk or roadway adjacent to each parking meter for the purpose
of delineating the parking space for which that meter shall be used.
Every vehicle parked at any parking meter shall be parked wholly within
the lines or markings so placed and applicable to that meter. It shall
be unlawful and a violation of this chapter for any person to park
a vehicle across any such line or marking or to park a vehicle in
such a position that that vehicle is not wholly within the area designated
by those lines or markings.
Whenever a vehicle is to be parked in any space adjacent to
a parking meter at any time in the period of limited parking as prescribed
by § 285-45 of this chapter, the driver of the vehicle,
upon entering the parking space, shall immediately deposit or cause
to be deposited in that parking meter one or more proper coins of
the United States of America as specified in the legend on the parking
meter. Upon the deposit of the coin or coins and placing the meter
in operation, the parking space may be lawfully occupied by the vehicle
for the time indicated on the meter. If any vehicle shall remain in
any such parking space for such length of time that the meter shall
indicate by proper signal that the lawful parking time has expired,
that vehicle shall be considered as having been parked overtime, and
the parking of a vehicle overtime shall be a violation of this chapter.
It shall be unlawful for any person to deposit in any parking
meter installed under the provisions of this chapter any slug or other
substitute for a coin of the United States of America.
It shall be unlawful and a violation of this chapter for any
person to deposit or cause to be deposited in any parking meter installed
under the provisions of this chapter, any coin for the purpose of
increasing or extending the parking time of any vehicle beyond the
legal parking time of 15 minutes in any fifteen-minute parking meter
zone, 1/2 hour in any half-hour parking meter zone, one hour in any
one-hour parking meter zone, or two hours in any two-hour parking
meter zone.
It shall be unlawful and a violation of this chapter for any
person to permit a vehicle to remain in a parking space adjacent to
a parking meter installed under this chapter when that meter displays
a signal indicating that the vehicle has already been parked there
beyond the period of time prescribed for that parking space or the
time for which a coin or coins was deposited in that meter for the
parking of that vehicle.
It shall be unlawful and a violation of this chapter for any
person to deface, tamper with, open or willfully break, destroy or
impair the usefulness of any parking meter installed under the provisions
of this chapter, provided that nothing in this section shall apply
to the servicing or opening of parking meters by officers, employees
or police officers of the Borough of Wilmerding under the direction
of the Borough Manager or Borough Council.
A.
It shall be the duty of the police officers and parking enforcement
personnel of the Borough, acting in accordance with the directions
of the Chief of Police, to report:
(1)
The number of each parking meter that indicates that a vehicle occupying
the adjacent parking space is or has been parked in violation of any
provision of this chapter;
(2)
The date and hour of the violation;
(3)
The license number of the vehicle; and
(4)
Any other facts, the knowledge of which is necessary for a thorough
understanding of the circumstances attending the violation.
B.
The police officer or other person making the report shall also place
on or attach to the vehicle a notice to the owner or driver of the
vehicle that the vehicle was parked in violation of this chapter and
instructing the owner or driver that, if he will report to the office
of the Chief of Police and pay, for the use of the Borough of Wilmerding,
the sum of $5 within 48 hours after the time of the notice or will
place the sum of $5 enclosed within the envelope provided in any of
the special parking fine boxes installed at various locations within
the Borough within that time limit, that act will save the violator
from prosecution and from payment of the fine prescribed in § 285-54A
of this chapter.
A.
By resolution, the Borough Council may temporarily suspend the provisions
of this chapter by requiring coin deposit in meters and establishing
a maximum parking time at meters.
B.
The Borough Council shall have authority to establish no-parking
or special-purpose parking zones within any parking meter zone and
to remove parking meters from those areas as previously installed
there, and the provisions of this chapter shall not apply in those
areas where no-parking or special-purpose parking is in effect.
