As used herein:
(a)
Holidays shall include the following:
New Years' Day
Washington's Birthday
Memorial Day
Independence Day
Labor Day
Thanksgiving Day
Christmas Day
or the actual day on which any of these holidays is celebrated and any other day declared to be a legal holiday by the City, other than for personnel purposes as designated in Section 11:8-2.
(b)
Parking meter means and includes any mechanical device or meter not
inconsistent with this article or erected for the regulation of parking
by authority of this article. Each parking meter installed shall indicate
by proper legend the legal parking time established by the City and
when operated shall at all times indicate the balance of legal parking
time and at the expiration of such period shall indicate illegal and
overtime parking.
(c)
Parking meter space means any space within a parking meter zone,
adjacent to a parking meter and which is duly designated for the parking
of a single vehicle by lines painted or otherwise durably marked on
the curb or on the surface of the street or off-street public parking
areas adjacent to or adjoining the parking meters.
(d)
Parking meter zone means and includes any restricted street or public
area off the public street upon which parking meters are installed
and in operation.
(e)
Parking space means any space within an off-street, non-metered parking
zone that is to be used for parking purposes.
[R.O. 1957, 16:7-1]
The public streets or parts thereof described in Schedules XXI
A and XXI B attached to and made a part of this chapter are hereby
established as street parking meter zones.
[R.O. 1957, 16:7-1A through 16:7-1D]
The off-street parking meter zones described in Schedule XXII
attached to and made a part of this chapter are hereby established
as off-street parking meter zones.
[Amended 4-10-2023 by Ord. No. MC 2023-08]
The parking meter zones as listed in Schedules XXIA and XXIB
and XXII of this chapter shall be in force from 8:00 A.M. to 6:00
P.M., prevailing time daily, with the exception of permit parking
spots.
[MC 1978-5, § 3, April 24, 1978]
(a)
The City of Plainfield is hereby directed and authorized to mark
off individual parking spaces in the parking zones or such zones as
hereafter may be established, such parking spaces to be designated
by lines painted or durably marked on the curbing or surface of the
street or off-street public parking areas.
(b)
At each space so marked off it shall be unlawful to park any vehicle
in such a way that such vehicle shall not be entirely within the limits
of the space so designated.
(c)
Where a parking space in any parking meter zone is at right angles
or diagonal to the curb, sidewalk or island, any vehicle parked in
such a parking space shall be parked with the front of the vehicle
facing such meter.
[R.O. 1957, 16:7-2; MC 1978-5, § 3, April 24, 1978]
(a)
The City of Plainfield may provide for the purchase, installation
and maintenance of parking meters as provided by law.
(b)
The City of Plainfield is hereby vested with the power and authority
to enter into a contract for the purchase, installation and maintenance
of such parking meters.
(c)
The payment for the purchase, installation and maintenance of such
parking meters is to be provided for solely from the receipts, funds
and revenues obtained from the operation of such parking meters, without
in any manner obligating the City to pay for the same from any other
source.
[R.O. 1957, 16:7-2, 4, 5; as amended by MC 1972-25, § 14,
July 17, 1972; MC 1978-5, § 3, April 24, 1978]
(a)
The City of Plainfield shall cause parking meters to be installed
upon the curb or sidewalk immediately adjacent to the parking spaces
in the parking meter zones or in such parts thereof as the City of
Plainfield shall determine.
(b)
The City of Plainfield shall be responsible for the control, operation,
maintenance and use of such parking meters.
(c)
Each device shall be so set as to display a signal showing legal
parking upon deposit of the appropriate coin, lawful money of the
United States of America, for the period of time prescribed by this
article.
(d)
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
provided in this chapter.
(e)
Parking meters shall not be installed in any area where parking is
prohibited pursuant to the provisions of N.J.S.A. 39:4-138.
[R.O. 1957, 16:7-6, 7, 8]
(a)
The operator of a vehicle shall, upon entering a parking meter zone
when the parking meter regulations are in effect, immediately deposit
the required coin in the parking meter situated at the parking space
and operate the meter according to the instructions thereon.
(b)
All parking meters shall be adjusted so that when properly operated,
coin or coins as indicated may be deposited at any time range of the
meters.
(c)
No person shall allow a vehicle to remain parked in a parking meter zone for a period of time in excess of that prescribed in Subsection (b), for the particular amount deposited. It shall be prima facie evidence of an overtime parking violation when the parking meter shall indicate by a proper signal that the lawful parking period has expired.
(d)
No person shall deposit in a parking meter a second or other coin
for the purpose of increasing or extending the parking time of any
vehicle beyond that which has been established for the parking space
adjacent to which the meter is placed.
[MC 1978:5, § 3, April 24, 1978]
Nothing in this article shall be construed as prohibiting the
City of Plainfield from providing for bus stops, taxicab stands and
other matters of a similar nature, including the loading or unloading
of trucks or vans or other commercial vehicles.
[R.O. 1957, 16:7-10]
No person shall deposit or attempt to deposit in any parking
meter a slug or other device as a substitute for a coin of the United
States currency.
[R.O. 1957, 16:7-11]
No person shall deface, tamper with, damage, open or willfully
break, destroy or impair the usefulness of any parking meter installed
under the provisions of this article.
[MC 1978-5, § 4, April 24, 1978; MC 1996-08, § 1,
August 19, 1996]
All meter parking, attendant lots, and monthly permit rates
shall be established by ordinance of the City Council. The rate structure
shall remain in force unless changed by duly adopted ordinance.
