[Ord. 829, 11/15/2001]
Borough Council will establish the meter fee and location of
metered parking lots within the Borough limits, from time to time
by resolution.
[Ord. 829, 11/15/2001]
Parking meters installed in the parking lots shall be placed
immediately adjacent to the individual parking spaces that shall be
marked off and maintained in the lots. For each parking meter there
shall be a clear indication, through use of a directional arrow, or
an identification as to number with the parking space, to show which
individual parking space it serves. Each parking meter shall indicate
by a proper legend the parking rate and the maximum parking time established
by § 601 of this chapter, and, when the parking space is
occupied and the parking meter put into operation by the insertion
of one or more coins, the parking meter shall indicate on and by its
dial and pointer the duration of legal parking, and, upon the expiration
of that period, shall indicate illegal parking or overparking.
[Ord. 829, 11/15/2001]
Borough Council, at its discretion, may provide, at convenient
and suitable locations in any one or more of the metered parking lots,
reserved parking spaces for handicapped, and shall designate those
spaces by appropriate signs. It shall be unlawful, and a violation
of this chapter, for any person to park in any such reserved parking
space, any vehicle unless that vehicle bears or displays either: a
"handicapped registration plate," a "handicapped parking placard,"
a "disabled veteran registration plate," or a "disabled veteran placard".
[Ord. 829, 11/15/2001]
Lines and/or markings shall be painted or placed upon the surface
of the metered parking lots, adjacent to each parking meter, for the
purpose of delineating the parking space for which that meter shall
be used. Every vehicle parked adjacent to 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:
[Ord. 829, 11/15/2001]
It shall be unlawful for any person to park a vehicle in any
metered parking lot:
[Ord. 829, 11/15/2001]
Whenever a vehicle is to be parked in any metered parking lot,
at any time when the lot is open for use and the meters are to be
in operation, the driver of the vehicle, upon entering the parking
space, shall immediately deposit, or cause to be deposited, in the
proper 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 remains in any such parking
space for such length of time that the meter indicates that the lawful
parking time has expired, that vehicle shall be considered as being
parked overtime, and the parking of a vehicle overtime shall be a
violation of this chapter; provided, every hour that a vehicle remains
parked at a meter showing a violation shall constitute a separate
violation of this chapter.
[Ord. 829, 11/15/2001]
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.
[Ord. 829, 11/15/2001]
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.
[Ord. 829, 11/15/2001]
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 nothing in this section shall apply to the
servicing or opening of parking meters by officers, employees or police
officers of the Borough of Elizabethtown under the direction of the
Borough Secretary or Borough Council.
[Ord. 829, 11/15/2001]
The metered parking lots established by this Part shall be for
the use of passenger cars, passenger vans and pickup trucks only,
and it shall be unlawful for any person to park any other type of
vehicle in any of those lots.
[Ord. 829, 11/15/2001]
1.Â
It shall be the duty of the police officers and parking enforcement
personnel of the Borough of Elizabethtown, acting in accordance with
the direction of the Chief of Police, to report:
A.Â
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.
B.Â
The date and hour of the violation.
C.Â
The license number of the vehicle.
D.Â
Any other facts, the knowledge of which is necessary for a thorough
understanding of the circumstances attending the violation.
2.Â
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 Elizabethtown, within 72 hours after the time of the notice, or will place the amount provided on the vehicle notice enclosed within the envelope provided, in any of the special parking fine boxes installed at various locations within the Borough of Elizabethtown, within that time limit, that act will save the violator from prosecution and from payment of the fine prescribed in § 612, Subsection 1, of this chapter.
[Ord. 829, 11/15/2001]
1.Â
Any person who violates any provision of this chapter, with the exception
of § 609, and who fails to pay the fine set forth in § 611,
shall be cited within 30 days of the police obtaining official notification
of owner information and upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine
of not more than $50 and costs.
2.Â
Any person who violates any provision of § 609 of this
chapter shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of not
more than $600 plus costs and, in default of payment of said fine
and costs, to imprisonment for not to exceed 30 days.
[Ord. 829, 11/15/2001; as added by Ord. 846, 6/17/2004, § 1]
Parking meters in off-street metered parking lots shall be operated,
by the deposit of a coin in the meter, as prescribed herein, and the
parking rates for specified lengths of time, as well as the maximum
parking times prescribed in § 701, shall apply at all times
between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m., Monday through Saturday,
in all municipally owned off-street parking lots; 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; and
provided further, however, that the municipally owned and metered
parking lot located off of West High Street, at the corner of Rose
Alley and Peach Alley, shall have parking meters operated by the deposit
of a coin in the meter, as prescribed herein, which shall apply between
the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 12:00 midnight, Monday through Saturday,
Borough holidays excepted.