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Ventnor City, NJ
Atlantic County
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New Laws (27) Index Notes (5)
[Adopted 7-20-1981 by Ord. No. 8135]
[Amended 5-18-2017 by Ord. No. 2017-21; 7-20-2017 by Ord. No. 2017-26; 10-19-2017 by Ord. No. 2017-36; 5-24-2018 by Ord. No. 2018-20; 5-28-2020 by Ord. No. 2020-09]
No person shall be permitted to park any vehicle on the following described streets or portions thereof in the City of Ventnor City for a period exceeding four hours unless such person has a valid parking sticker:
A. 
Jackson Avenue to Victoria Avenue, from the north side of Winchester Avenue to the Boardwalk, in the City of Ventnor City, New Jersey.
[Amended 2-18-2016 by Ord. No. 2016-02]
Applications for parking permits under this article shall be made, in writing, to the Code Official of the City of Ventnor or his/her designee upon such forms to be prepared by the office of the Code Official upon passage of this article. All individuals who apply for a parking permit shall also be entitled to purchase up to two visitor's placards as set forth in § 217-11.
[Added 2-18-2016 by Ord. No. 2016-02; amended 11-14-2019 by Ord. No. 2019-20; 10-22-2020 by Ord. No. 2020-23; at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
A. 
Parking permit fees shall be as set forth in Chapter 114, Fee Schedule.
B. 
All new residents, either homeowners or tenants, shall be entitled to apply for a parking permit pursuant to the conditions set forth in § 217-10. The fee regardless of when same is applied for shall remain as set forth in Subsection A.
C. 
Visitor placards shall be at the rate as set forth in Chapter 114.
Parking permits shall be granted to the following person or persons under the terms and conditions as hereinafter set forth:
A. 
To persons who are owner/occupants and/or residents by way of a lease on any street, a portion thereof upon which parking is so restricted, for every vehicle owned by such person who is a resident/owner and/or an occupant by way of a lease. In the case of an occupant by way of a lease, said occupant must show proof to the satisfaction of the Code Official or his/her designee that said occupancy shall be for a period of at least one year.
[Amended 2-18-2016 by Ord. No. 2016-02]
B. 
In the areas in said City wherein parking meters are located, at no time should this parking sticker ordinance apply, but rather the rules and regulations which govern that parking meter shall be in full force and effect.
Any person or persons who shall be visiting residents of either owner-occupied facilities, or in the alternative, residents with a lease for a period of one year who reside in the district in which these parking stickers shall be required, shall be permitted to park on a short-term basis for a period not to exceed two hours on any one particular day and will not be required to secure a parking sticker under the terms of this article.
[Amended 2-18-2016 by Ord. No. 2016-02]
A. 
An applicant for a parking permit under this article shall show to the Code Official or his/her designee satisfactory evidence that he/she fulfills all the conditions required for the issuance of such permit. Whenever such conditions no longer exist, any person holding such permit shall surrender same to the Code Official or his/her designee. It shall be unlawful for any person to represent that they are entitled to a permit hereunder when they are not so entitled, to fail to surrender a permit to which they are no longer entitled or to park a vehicle displaying such a permit at any time when the holder of such permit is not entitled to hold it. No permit issued hereunder shall be valid for more than two years but may be renewed upon expiration, provided that the conditions for issuance thereof still exist.
B. 
The Code Official in conjunction with the Chief of Police shall have the authority to promulgate rules and regulations from time to time as he/she sees fit in order to implement and effectuate the purposes and intent of this article.
The Chief of Police is hereby directed to have proper signs calling attention to the provisions of this article erected or placed upon those streets or portions thereof hereinabove described.
[Amended 2-2-1989 by Ord. No. 8903; 2-18-2016 by Ord. No. 2016-02; at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
Any person who violates any provision of this article shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not more than $2,000. A separate offense shall be deemed committed on each day during or on which a new violation occurs or continues. The court, in its discretion, may order the imposition of up to a maximum of 90 days of community service in addition to or as a substitute for any fine.