Borough of Lewisburg, PA On-Street Metered Parking

[Amended 5-16-1989 by Ord. No. 849; 1-17-2006 by Ord. No. 973; 7-15-2008 by Ord. No. 989; 7-21-2015 by Ord. No. 1035; 3-15-2016 by Ord. No. 1040; 5-16-2017 by Ord. No. 1046; 3-21-2023 by Ord. No. 1074]

Parking meter zones are established upon and along certain streets in the Borough, as follows:

Street	Side	Between	Rate/ Minutes	Maximum Parking Time (hours)
Market Street	South	Seventh Street and Front Street	Token/45	3
			$0.05/9
			$0.10/18
			$0.25/45
	North	Sixth Street and Front Street	Token/45	3
			$0.05/9
			$0.10/18
			$0.25/45
N. Fifth Street	East	Market Street and Cherry Alley	Token/45	3
			$0.05/9
			$0.10/18
			$0.25/45
N. Fourth Street	East/West	Market Street and Cherry Alley	Token/45	3
			$0.05/9
			$0.10/18
			$0.25/45
N. Second Street	East	Market Street and St. John Street	Token/45	3
			$0.05/9
			$0.10/18
			$0.25/45
N. Third Street	East/West	Market Street and St. John Street	Token/45	3
			$0.05/9
			$0.10/18
			$0.25/45
S. Fifth Street	East	Market Street and Pine Alley	Token/45	3
			$0.05/9
			$0.10/18
			$0.25/45
S. Fourth Street	East	Market Street and Pine Alley	Token/45	3
			$0.05/9
			$0.10/18
			$0.25/45
S. Second Street	East	Market Street and Pine Alley	Token/45	3
			$0.05/9
			$0.10/18
			$0.25/45
S. Sixth Street	East	Market Street and White Pine Alley	Token/45	3
			$0.05/9
			$0.10/18
			$0.25/45
	West	Market Street and Cherry Alley	Token/45	2
			$0.05/9
			$0.10/18
			$0.25/45
		Market Street and White Pine Alley	Token/45	2
			$0.05/9
			$0.10/18
			$0.25/45
S. Third Street	East	Market Street and St. Louis Street	Token/45	3
			$0.05/9
			$0.10/18
			$0.25/45
	West	Pine Alley and St. Louis Street	Token/45	3
			$0.05/9
			$0.10/18
			$0.25/45
S. Third Street	West	Market Street and Pine Alley	Token/45	3
			$0.05/9
			$0.10/18
			$0.25/45

§ 345-36 Days and hours meters in operation and time limits apply.

[Amended 1-17-2006 by Ord. No. 973]

Parking meters shall be operated, by the deposit of a coin or token in the meter, as prescribed by § 345-39, and the parking rates for specified lengths of time, as well as the maximum parking times prescribed in § 345-35, shall apply at all times between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday in the parking meter zones listed in § 345-35; provided, however, that the requirements of this chapter as to parking time limit and as to deposit of coins in meters shall not apply on the following legal holidays: New Year's Day, Good Friday, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas.

§ 345-37 Placement and characteristics of parking meters.

Parking meters installed in the parking meter zones established by § 345-35 of this chapter shall be placed upon the curb or sidewalk, and immediately adjacent to the individual parking spaces described in § 345-38 of this chapter. Each parking meter shall be placed or set so as to show that the parking space adjacent to that meter is or is not legally occupied. Each parking meter installed shall indicate by a proper legend the legal parking time established by the Borough, and when the adjacent space is occupied by a vehicle, the parking meter shall indicate on and by its dial and pointer the duration of the period of legal parking, and, on the expiration of that period, shall indicate time expired.

§ 345-38 Parked vehicles to be wholly within marked spaces.

Lines and/or markings shall be painted or placed upon the curb, sidewalk or roadway adjacent to each parking meter for the purpose of delineating the parking space for which that meter shall be used. Every vehicle parked at any parking meter shall be parked wholly within the lines or markings so placed and applicable to that meter. It shall be unlawful and a violation of this chapter for any person to park a vehicle across any such line or marking, or to park a vehicle in such a position that that vehicle is not wholly within the area designated by those lines or markings.

§ 345-39 Coin or token deposit in meter; overtime parking unlawful.

[Amended 12-19-1989 by Ord. No. 855]

Whenever a vehicle is to be parked in any space adjacent to a parking meter, at any time in the period of limited parking as prescribed by § 345-36 of this chapter, the driver of the vehicle, upon entering the parking space, shall immediately deposit, or cause to be deposited, in that parking meter, one or more proper coins of the United States of America or tokens, as specified in the legend on the parking meter. Upon the deposit of the coins or tokens, and placing the meter in operation, the parking space may be lawfully occupied by the vehicle for the time indicated on the meter. If any vehicle shall remain in any such parking space for such length of time that the meter shall indicate by proper signal that the lawful parking time has expired, that vehicle shall be considered as having been parked overtime, and the parking of a vehicle overtime shall be a violation of this chapter. Every hour that a vehicle remains parked at a meter showing a violation shall constitute a separate violation of this chapter.

§ 345-40 Unlawful to deposit substitute for coins in meter.

It shall be unlawful for any person to deposit in any parking meter installed under the provisions of this chapter any slug or other substitute for a coin or token of the United States of America.

§ 345-41 Unlawful to deposit coin in meter to extend parking time beyond legal limit.

[Amended 5-16-1989 by Ord. No. 849]

It shall be unlawful and a violation of this article for any person to deposit or cause to be deposited, in any parking meter installed under the provisions of this chapter, any coin for the purpose of increasing or extending the parking time of any vehicle beyond the legal parking time of 15 minutes in any fifteen-minute parking meter zone, or two hours in any two hour parking meter zone.

§ 345-42 Unlawful to remain parked at meter showing violation.

It shall be unlawful, and a violation of this chapter, for any person to permit a vehicle to remain in a parking space adjacent to a parking meter installed under this chapter, when that meter displays a signal indicating that the vehicle has already been parked there beyond the period of time prescribed for that parking space, or the time for which a coin or coins was deposited in that meter for the parking of that vehicle.

§ 345-43 Unlawful to tamper with meter.

[Amended 4-17-2012 by Ord. No. 1014]

It shall be unlawful, and a violation of this chapter, 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 chapter. Provided: nothing in this section shall apply to the servicing or opening of parking meters by officers, employees or police officers of the Buffalo Valley Regional Police Department under the direction of the Mayor or Borough Council.

§ 345-44 Ticketing of vehicles parked unlawfully.

[Amended 7-19-1988 by Ord. No. 837; 3-21-1995 by Ord. No. 898; 1-17-2006 by Ord. No. 973; 4-17-2012 by Ord. No. 1014]

It shall be the duty of the police officers of the Buffalo Valley Regional Police Department and parking enforcement personnel of the Borough, acting in accordance with the directions of the Police Chief of the Buffalo Valley Regional Police Department, to report:

(1)

The number of each parking meter that indicates that a vehicle occupying the adjacent parking space is, or has been, parked in violation of any provision of this article;

(2)

The date and hour of the violation;

(3)

The license number of the vehicle; and

(4)

Any other facts, the knowledge of which is necessary for a thorough understanding of the circumstances attending the violation.

The police officer or other person making the report shall place on or attach to the vehicle a notice to the owner or driver of the vehicle that the vehicle was parked in violation of this article and instructing the owner or driver that if he/she will place the sum of $10, enclosed within the envelope provided, in any of the special parking fine boxes installed at various locations within the Borough or report to the Borough Building and pay, for the use of the Borough, the sum of $10 within 48 hours after the time of the notice, or the sum of $15 after the said forty-eight-hour period has elapsed as a penalty, that act will save the violator from prosecution and from payment of the fine and costs prescribed in § 345-45A of this article.

[Amended 12-15-2015 by Ord. No. 1038; 5-17-2022 by Ord. No. 1068]

§ 345-45 Violations and penalties.

[Amended 7-19-1988 by Ord. No. 837; 11-14-1989 by Ord. No. 583; 3-21-1995 by Ord. No. 898]

Any person who violates any provision of this article, with the exception of § 345-43, and who fails to pay the penalty set forth in § 345-44B of this article, shall be cited within 30 days of the violation and upon conviction thereof in a summary proceeding before a District Justice, be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than $20 and not more than $600, plus costs of prosecution, for each offense and, in default of payment of such fine and costs, be imprisoned for a period not to exceed 30 days.

Any person who violates any provision of § 345-43 of this chapter shall, upon conviction thereof in a summary proceeding before a District Justice, be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than $600 plus costs of prosecution, for each offense, and, in default of payment of fine and costs, to imprisonment for not more than 30 days.

§ 345-46 Exceptions.

By resolution, Council may temporarily suspend the provisions of this chapter by requiring coin deposit in meters and establishing a maximum parking time at meters.

The Borough shall have authority to establish no-parking or special-purpose parking zones within any parking meter zone, and to remove parking meters from those areas as previously installed there, and the provisions of this chapter shall not apply in those areas where no-parking or special-purpose parking is in effect.