Parking meter zones are established upon and along certain streets
and public areas owned by the Borough of Bath as follows:
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Street/Lot
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Side
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Between
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121. South Walnut Street Lot
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Borough Parking Lot; Select Parking Stalls Metered
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N/A
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220 West Northampton Street Lot
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Borough Parking Lot; Select Parking Stalls Metered
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N/A
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A.
Days and hours parking meters in operation and parking time limits apply. Parking meters shall be operated by the deposit of a coin in the meter as prescribed by Subsection D, and the parking rates for specified lengths of time, as well as the maximum parking times prescribed in the legend established by Borough Council from time-to-time, shall apply at all times as established by resolution of Council in the parking meter zones listed in § 625-39; provided, however; the requirements of this article as to parking time limit and as to deposit of coins in meters shall not apply on Borough holidays. The listing of Borough holidays is of record at the Borough Office.
B.
Placement and characteristics of parking meters. Parking meters installed in the parking meter zones established by § 625-49 of this article shall be placed upon the curb, sidewalk, or edge of pavement (if in a parking lot), and immediately adjacent to the individual parking spaces described in Subsection C of this article. Each 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 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/display and/or pointer the duration of the period of legal parking, and, on the expiration of that period, shall indicate illegal parking or over-parking.
C.
Parked vehicles to be wholly within marked spaces. Lines and/or markings
shall be painted or placed upon the curb, sidewalk, parking lot, 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 article 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.
D.
Coin deposit in meter; overtime parking unlawful. 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 Subsection A of this article 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. In lieu of coins, the Borough may have alternative pay for parking APP software available per metered parking space.
(1)
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 article.
E.
Unlawful to deposit substitute for coin in meter. If shall be unlawful
for any person to deposit in any parking meter installed under the
provisions of this article any slug or other substitute for a coin
of the United States of America.
F.
Parking time limited to certain maximums; overtime parking unlawful. No person shall park a vehicle or allow it to remain parked for longer than the maximum time prescribed on the legend established by Council from time-to-time, notwithstanding compliance with Subsection D.
G.
Unlawful to tamper with meter. It shall be unlawful, and a violation
of this article, 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 article. Provided: nothing in this section
shall apply to the servicing or opening of parking meters by officers,
employees of the Borough police, parking enforcement officials, under
the direction of the Borough Manager or Mayor.
H.
Ticketing of vehicles parked unlawfully.
(1)
It shall be the duty of the police officers and parking enforcement
officers for the Borough to report the following to the Borough Manager:
(a)
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 article;
(b)
The date and hour of the violation;
(c)
The license number of the vehicle;
(d)
Any other facts, the knowledge of which is necessary for a thorough
understanding of the circumstances attending the violation.
(2)
The police officer or parking enforcement officer 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 Subsection C or D, and instructing the owner or driver that he will report to the Borough Office and pay, for the use of the Borough, the sums provided on the face of the notice in the form. The notice shall provide time limits for payments of fines which shall escalate for failure to pay timely.
J.
Exceptions.
(1)
The Borough Council, by resolution, may temporarily suspend the provisions
of this article and substitute alternate parking regulations.
(2)
The Borough Council may, from time-to-time, substitute no-parking
or special purpose parking zones within any parking meter zone, removing
parking meters from a substituting no-parking and special purpose
parking signs as replacements.
