[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees
of the Village of Lawrence 7-27-1955 as part of Ord. No. 152; amended in its
entirety 6-11-1968 by Ord. No. 210. Subsequent amendments noted where
applicable.]
A.
Parking places heretofore or hereafter established
by the Board of Trustees of the Village of Lawrence are intended primarily
for the convenience of persons desiring off-street parking facilities
for temporary purposes and, where a parking place is located in an
area used for business or adjacent to a place where people meet or
assemble for social, recreational or other purposes, to enable the
persons using such parking places to have easy access to the places
where they desire to be.
B.
A parking place is not a public street and shall not be used as a public street. Its use is limited to the parking of vehicles for the purposes stated in §§ 135-1 through 135-6 of this chapter and for such movement of vehicles as may be necessary for such purposes. All traffic, except incident to parking, is forbidden and excluded.
C.
No vehicle shall be parked in any parking place for
the purpose of sale or rent or which shall display any sign or insignia
indicating it is for sale or for rent.
D.
No vehicle owned, held or controlled by any manufacturer,
dealer or repairman, as defined in § 415 of the Vehicle
and Traffic Law, for sale, rental, delivery or demonstration, for
washing, servicing, repair or dismantling or for towing, servicing
or transporting property shall be parked in any parking place.
E.
No vehicle shall be washed, serviced, repaired or
dismantled while in any parking place.
F.
No commercial vehicle is permitted to park in a parking
place at any time.
G.
Village Parking Lot No. 2.
[Added 1-8-2009 by L.L. No. 2-2009]
(1)
It shall be unlawful for any person to trespass upon
Village Parking Lot No. 2 or to enter or remain therein except to
enter or exit a legally parked vehicle.
(2)
Notices or signboards required by this chapter to
be posted shall state “No Trespassing” and shall be not
less than 14 inches high by 24 inches wide and have letters not less
than four inches high and shall be placed at all points of entry to
Parking Lot No. 2.
(3)
Any person committing an offense against this chapter
shall be guilty of a violation punishable by a fine not to exceed
$1,000 or imprisonment not to exceed five days for each such offense,
or by both such fine and imprisonment for a first conviction, and
upon conviction of a second or subsequent offense within five years
of a conviction of a previous offense herein, shall be guilty of a
violation punishable by a fine of not less than $250 or imprisonment
not to exceed 15 days, or both such fine and imprisonment.
Where pavement markings have been installed
in any parking place of the Village, indicating stalls for parked
automobiles, it shall be unlawful to park any automobile or motorcycle
in such a way as to cross any such pavement marking or so as to obstruct
or occupy, in whole or in part, more than one stall.
In parking fields and parking places heretofore
or hereafter established, where the Board of Trustees provides that
the parking of vehicles shall be permitted only upon procuring licenses
for such purpose, no vehicle shall be parked or permitted to stand
in such parking place; without first obtaining and thereafter holding
unrevoked a license from the Board of Trustees to park in such parking
place: provided, however, that no license shall be issued for a vehicle
registered or required to be registered under Subdivisions 7 and 8
of § 401 of the Vehicle and Traffic Law of the State of
New York, and no such motor vehicle shall be parked or permitted to
stand therein.
[Amended 9-19-1977 by L.L. No. 6-1977; 1-19-2017 by L.L. No.
1-2017]
All vehicles parked in spaces in Village parking fields shall
be parked head in. Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, vehicles
parked in Parking Field No. 3 may be parked head in or head out.
The following special regulations shall also
apply:
A.
Parking in Lawrence Station Plaza and Inwood Plaza
is hereby prohibited between the hours of 3:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m.
of any day.
[Amended 4-13-1988 by L.L. No. 5-1988]
B.
Parking is prohibited along the southerly side of
Central Parking Field No. 3 for more than three consecutive hours
between 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m.
C.
Elsewhere in Central Parking Field No. 3, parking
is prohibited for more than three consecutive hours at any time.
D.
Vehicles shall enter a parking field only through
a designated entrance and shall leave only through a designated exit.
Leaving a parking field through a designated entrance or entering
a parking field through a designated exit is prohibited.
E.
For Parking Field No. 3, the designated entrances
shall be at the Rockaway Turnpike and at the alleyway from Central
Avenue. The designated exit shall be at Frost Lane.
F.
For Parking Field No. 4, the designated entrances
shall be at the Rockaway Turnpike and at the alleyway from Central
Avenue. The designated exit shall be at William Street.
G.
For Parking Field No. 2 at Inwood Station, the designated
entrance shall be at Lord Avenue, and the designated exit shall be
at Doughty Boulevard.
A.
Lawrence Station Plaza. That portion of Lawrence Station
Plaza now paved with concrete and bounded on the north and west by
property of the Long Island Rail Road Company, on the east by the
easterly side of East Plaza Drive and on the south by the present
curbline along the park and such curbline as extended easterly is
hereby designated as a parking place wherein the parking of vehicles
shall be permitted only upon procuring licenses as provided in this
chapter. Such parking place may be referred to as "Parking Field No.
1."
B.
Inwood Plaza. The area bounded on the north by the
right-of-way of the Long Island Rail Road Company, on the east by
the westerly side of Lord Avenue, on the south by the northerly side
of Foote Avenue and on the west by the easterly side of Doughty Boulevard
is hereby designated as a parking place, to be known as "Inwood Plaza,"
wherein the parking of vehicles shall be permitted only upon procuring
the license as provided in this chapter. Such parking place may be
referred to as "Parking Field No. 2."
C.
Central Plaza. The area bounded on the west by the
easterly side of Rockaway Turnpike, on the east by the westerly side
of Frost Lane, on the south by the northerly line of land heretofore
of William Wicke and on the north by a line parallel thereto and situated
75 feet distant therefrom, is hereby designated as a parking place.
Such parking place may be referred to as "Parking Field No. 3."
D.
Central Plaza North. The area bounded on the west
by the easterly side of Rockaway Turnpike, on the east by the westerly
side of Williams Street, on the south by those properties situated
on Central Avenue and on the north by those properties situated on
Mulry Lane is hereby designated as a parking place. Such parking place
may be referred to as "Parking Field No. 4."
[Added 4-13-1988 by L.L. No. 5-1988]
[Added 4-13-1988 by L.L. No. 5-1988]
Fees for parking and for parking licenses for
Village parking areas regulated by this chapter shall be set by resolution
by the Board of Trustees and may be found in Chapter A220, Parking
Meters.
[Amended 4-13-1988 by L.L. No. 5-1988]
No license to park in Lawrence Station Plaza
shall be issued for any vehicle whose registered owner is not an individual
residing in the Village of Lawrence or a partnership or corporation
having its principal place of business in the Village or a taxpayer
of the Village of Lawrence, unless the vehicle is rented on an annual
basis to a person or corporation described in this section or unless
the vehicle is used exclusively by a resident of the Village. The
annual registration issued by the Bureau of Motor Vehicles for the
current year shall be conclusive evidence of the residence or principal
place of business of the registered owner, and the certificate of
the applicant shall be conclusive evidence of compliance with the
rental or use requirements of this section. (NOTE: For fees, see Chapter
A220, Parking Meters.)
Notwithstanding the purposes for which parking places are established and for which they may be used, the provisions of Chapter 200, Vehicles and Traffic, of the Code of the Village of Lawrence and of regulations now or hereafter issued thereunder shall apply to a parking place established by the Board of Trustees to the same effect as if such parking place were a public street.
Notwithstanding the purposes for which parking places are established and for which they may be used, the provisions of Chapter 212, Zoning, of the Code of the Village of Lawrence relating to property adjacent to a public, private or proposed street shall apply to the same extent as if a parking space heretofore or hereafter established or proposed were an existing or proposed street, as the case may be.
There shall be no right of access to a parking
place from the land, building or structures adjacent thereto. The
Board of Trustees may, however, in exceptional cases and in conformity
with the general purposes hereinbefore stated, grant to the owner,
for the time being, of land or structures adjacent to a parking place
the privilege of access to such parking place, together with the privilege
to make, construct and maintain curb cuts, driveways and other means
of access, subject to such terms and limitations and subject at all
times to regulation by the Board of Trustees, under the following
conditions:
A.
When it will create additional parking facilities
and will not interfere with the parking on such parking place.
B.
When the property owner will suffer unnecessary hardship
or injustice unless such privilege is granted.
C.
Such limitations and regulations may include specifying
the times when use of such facilities is prohibited, the construction
and maintenance of a rail, chain, gate, fence or other barrier, except
when not in use, and a limitation of the character of the use permitted.
[Added 2-8-1971 by Ord. No. 221]
Every parking license for Lawrence Plaza and/or
Inwood Plaza shall show the year for which it is issued and shall
be accompanied by a sticker also showing such year. The sticker shall
be affixed to the rear window of the motor vehicle for which it is
issued, or, if the vehicle has no rear window, it shall be affixed
to the rear bumper in a conspicuous place. Each parking license shall
be in effect during the year for which it is issued and during the
month of January of the following year.
[Added 4-13-1988 by L.L. No. 5-1988; amended 9-11-2002 by L.L. No. 5-2002]
Any person committing an offense against any
provision of this chapter shall, upon conviction thereof, be guilty
of a violation pursuant to the Penal Law of the State of New York,
punishable by a fine up to a maximum of $1,000 or by imprisonment
for a term not exceeding 15 days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
The continuation of an offense against the provisions of this chapter
shall constitute, for each day the offense is continued, a separate
and distinct offense hereunder.
