Whenever a vehicle is to be parked in any of said parking lots at any time during which the parking meters therein shall be in operation, the operator of such vehicle shall, upon entering a parking space adjacent to a parking meter, immediately deposit, or cause to be deposited, in such parking meter, one or more coins of the United States, as so designated by the Borough Treasurer, as shall be specified in the legend upon such parking meter. Upon the deposit of such coin or coins and placing the meter in operation, such parking space may be lawfully occupied by such vehicle for the length of time designated by §
286-60 of this article for parking in said parking lot upon deposit of such coin or coins. If any vehicle shall remain in any such parking space for such length of time that the meter shall indicate by a proper signal that the lawful parking time shall have expired, such vehicle shall be considered as having been parked overtime, and the parking of a vehicle overtime shall be a violation of this article, provided that every hour that a vehicle shall remain parked at a meter showing a violation shall constitute a separate violation of this article.
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 that nothing herein shall apply to the servicing
or opening of parking meters by officers, employees and/or parking
enforcement officers of the Borough under the direction of the Mayor
and/or the Borough Council.
Municipal parking lots shall be for the use of the public, except
for those areas marked as being for the use of Borough employees,
school employees, or police, during the days and times indicated.
Overnight parking shall be permitted in a municipal parking lot, without coin deposit in meter, listed in §
286-52, provided that the Borough Manager, or his designee, may, from time to time, ban overnight parking in those lots, or in such parts of those lots, which may be closed off for the purposes of cleaning, snow removal, special events, or similar purposes. In such cases, it shall be unlawful to remove, relocate, or ignore officials' barricades established for such temporary closure of these parking lots.
The Borough of Chambersburg may establish the position of parking
enforcement officer, a local code enforcement official, for the sole
purpose of the enforcement of laws associated with parking.
A. It shall be the duty of the parking enforcement officers of the Borough
to report:
(1) The number of each parking meter that indicates that the vehicle
occupying the parking space adjacent thereto is or has been parking
in violation of any of the provisions of this article;
(2) The hour and date of such violation;
(3) The state license number of such vehicle; and
(4) Any other facts, the knowledge of which shall be necessary for an
understanding of the circumstances attending such violation.
B. Any such police officer, or parking enforcement officer, who shall undertake enforcement of these provisions, shall also place upon such vehicle a ticket to the owner or operator thereof that such vehicle was parked in violation of the provisions of this article; and, further, said notice shall instruct such owner or operator that if they shall report to the office of the Chief of Police, or his designee, and pay, for the collection by the Borough, the fine indicated below, or if they shall place the fine indicated below enclosed within the envelope provided in the night deposit box installed at Borough Hall, within such time limits as herein established, the same shall save such violator from prosecution and from further payment of the fines and costs hereinafter provided in §
286-68 of this article.
The Borough Manager, or his designee, is hereby authorized to
suspend, in whole or in part, the parking meter regulations set forth
in this article, during such days or such hours as may be deemed necessary
by the Borough Manager or his designee.
The following restrictions shall apply for the parking meters
enumerated in this section:
A. In the East Point Parking Lot, the first two-hour metered parking
space in the southeast corner shall be designated as authorized for
parking of a handicapped person's or disabled veteran's vehicle only.
Such vehicles shall bear a special handicapped registration plate
or display a placard issued by the commonwealth, or any other state,
evidencing a handicapped person's or disabled veteran's vehicle.
B. In the Rosedale and Sprint Street Parking Lot, the first two perpendicular
parking spaces inside the lot entrance off North Main Street and the
last perpendicular parking space at the westernmost end of the lot
closest to Spring Street shall be designated as authorized for parking
of a handicapped persons' or disabled veteran's vehicle only. Such
vehicles must bear a special handicapped registration plate or display
a placard issued by the commonwealth, or any other state, evidencing
a handicapped persons' or disabled veteran's vehicle.