[Adopted 8-9-1993 by Ord. No. 93-6]
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:
A vehicle parked in a residential area by a person not a
resident of that residential area.
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.
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.
A.
Notwithstanding any provision of this section to the
contrary, the holder of a residential parking permit shall be permitted
to stand or park a motor vehicle operated by him in the designated
residential parking area for which the permit was issued during those
times when parking motor vehicles are permitted in that area. While
a motor vehicle for which a residential parking permit has been issued
is so parked, that permit shall be displayed so as to be clearly visible
through the windshield of the vehicle. A residential parking permit
shall not guarantee or reserve to the holder a parking space within
the designated residential permit parking area.
B.
No person other than the permit holder whose name
appears on the permit shall use a residential parking permit or display
it on a vehicle operated; any such use or display by a person other
than the permit holder shall constitute a violation of this section
by the permit holder and by the person who so used or displayed the
parking permit.
C.
It shall constitute a violation of this section for
a person falsely to represent himself as eligible for a residential
parking permit or to furnish false information in an application to
the Township Secretary in order to obtain a residential parking permit.
D.
The Township Secretary shall have the authority to
revoke the residential parking permit of any permit holder found to
be in violation of any provision of this section. Upon written notification
to said permit holder of the revocation, the permit holder shall surrender
the permit to the Township Secretary. Failure to do so, when so requested,
shall constitute a violation of this section. Any person receiving
such a notice may, within 10 days after the date of the notice, appeal
to the Board of Commissioners of Marple Township for a hearing on
the revocation, and the decision of the Board of Commissioners shall
be final.
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.
