[Amended 1-12-1998 by L.L. No. 1-1998; 7-10-2006 by L.L. No. 7-2006; 6-10-2013 by L.L. No. 5-2013]
For the purposes of this chapter, the term "parking meter" shall
refer to either an individual parking meter or a parking meter or
other device which serves to receive payments for parking fees and
provide a record of payments for parking in one or more parking spaces
(including a "kiosk").
A.
On-street parking meter zones. Parking meter zones are hereby established upon those streets and highways, or parts thereof, described in Schedule R (§ 217-63).
B.
Off-street parking meter zones. Parking meter zones may be established
in any part or portion of an off-street public parking lot or area
which is owned, leased or maintained by the Village.
[Amended 9-11-2017 by L.L. No. 2-2017]
The Superintendent of Public Works shall be responsible for
the installation, operation, maintenance, regulation, control and
supervision of parking meters in the Village.
A.
Installation.
(1)
Pavement and/or curb markings shall be applied, where practicable,
outlining parking spaces adjacent to or in an area covered by each
parking meter in the parking meter zones established pursuant to this
article.
(2)
Parking meters shall be installed immediately adjacent to the parking
spaces or in the reasonable vicinity thereof.
(3)
No parking spaces shall be applied at, nor meters installed adjacent
to, locations where parking, standing or stopping is prohibited pursuant
to § 1202 of the Vehicle and Traffic Law or by this or any
other local law of the Village where parking spaces are in conflict
with such prohibitions.
A.
Any vehicle parked in any parking space in a parking meter zone shall
be parked entirely within the lines or markings designating or outlining
the parking space regulated by a parking meter.
B.
Any vehicle parked in a parking space regulated by a parking meter
shall be parked so that either the foremost or the rearmost part of
such vehicle shall be alongside of and next to the parking meter,
depending upon the location of the parking meter, or in the direction
of travel of the vehicle in entering or leaving the parking space.
A.
Deposit of fee required.
(1)
No person shall park a vehicle in a parking space of any parking
meter zone during the hours of parking meter operation unless the
appropriate fee is promptly deposited in such meter.
(2)
No person shall park a vehicle in a parking space of any parking
meter zone during the hours of parking meter operation while the applicable
meter is displaying a signal or has printed a record indicating the
expiration of the time period associated with the deposit of fees.
B.
Legal currency required. No person shall deposit or attempt to deposit
in any parking meter any slug, button or other device or substance
as substitutes for coins of United States currency.
C.
Injury to meters. It shall be unlawful for any person to deface,
injure, tamper with, willfully break, destroy or impair the usefulness
of, or open without lawful authority, any parking meter.
The parking of motor vehicles in on-street parking meter zones
is hereby prohibited for a longer period of time than two hours between
the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. of any day except Sundays and
holidays or unless otherwise provided by proclamation of the Mayor.
The fees for use of the parking meter zones established pursuant to this article shall be as indicated in Schedule R (§ 217-63).
The Board of Trustees, by resolution, may from time to time
designate holidays or other days on which otherwise applicable parking
meter regulations as provided in this article shall not be enforced.
Reasonable notice of such regulations shall be given by posting signs,
by posting notices on parking meters, by covering parking meters or
in such other manner as the Board may designate in its discretion.
