The Township of Marple finds that:
A. Certain residential areas in the Township of Marple
are subjected to commuter vehicle parking, therefore, depriving the
residents of those areas of spaces in which to park their own vehicles.
B. The establishment of a parking permit program for
certain affected areas should facilitate efficient movement of traffic
by providing for parking preference. Therefore, the Township of Marple
considers it to be in the interest of the people of the Township of
Marple to provide for the establishment of a residential permit parking
program to ensure primary access to available parking spaces by neighborhood
residents.
For the purpose of this article, words and terms
listed in this section, as follows, shall have the following meanings:
COMMUTER VEHICLE
A vehicle parked in a residential area by a person not a
resident of that residential area.
RESIDENT
A person who owns or leases real property within a residential
area and who maintains either a voting residence or bona fide occupancy,
or both, at that address.
RESIDENTIAL AREA
A contiguous area containing public highways or parts of
public highways primarily abutted by residential property.
Application for a residential parking permit
shall be made through the Township Secretary by the person desiring
the permit, who shall be only the owner or the driver of a motor vehicle
who resides on a street within a residential permit parking area.
Separate applications shall be required for each motor vehicle, and
each application shall be accompanied by a permit fee, set pursuant
to a resolution of the Board of Commissioners of Marple Township,
which shall be for the use of the Township of Marple, to be applied
to the cost of administering the residential permit parking program.
Each application shall contain the following information: The name
of the owner or the driver, as the case may be, of the motor vehicle;
the address of the resident; the make, model and registration number
of the motor vehicle; and the driver number as taken from the applicant's
current driver's license. At the discretion of the Township Secretary,
the applicant shall be required, at the time of making application,
to present his driver's license and vehicle registration card. In
addition to the residential parking permits heretofore mentioned,
each household in a residential permit parking area shall, upon application,
be issued one additional residential parking permit to be used by
visitors to said residence.
Upon receipt of the application and permit fee,
and a determination that the information upon the application shows
that the applicant is entitled to a residential parking permit, the
Township Secretary shall issue to the applicant the residential parking
permit, which shall be valid for the remainder of the calendar year.
The permit shall display the serial and registration numbers of the
motor vehicles and the expiration date. The permit shall be renewable
annually before the expiration date, upon making application for renewal
and payment of a permit fee. It shall be unlawful and a violation
of this section for any person to display other than the current and
valid permit while standing or parking in a residential permit parking
area at any time when those permits are to be displayed.
Temporary parking permits may be issued by the
Township Secretary, upon payment of the fee established pursuant to
a resolution, to bona fide visitors of residents of a designated residential
permit parking area.
Any person in violation of any provision of
this article shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of
not more than $15 and costs.