For the control of parking and traffic and the
good and welfare of the Village, the installation, maintenance and
operation of street parking meters is authorized as more fully provided
herein. Such parking in a metered space requires payment of the fee
indicated on the meter for the privilege of parking.
For the purpose of this article:
OPERATOR
Includes every individual who shall operate a vehicle as
the owner thereof, or as the agent, employee or permittee of the owner,
or who is in actual physical control of a vehicle.
PARKING METER
Any mechanical device or meter, not inconsistent with this
article, placed or erected for the regulation of parking by authority
of this article. Each parking meter installed shall indicate by proper
legend the legal parking time established by the Village, and when
operated shall at all times indicate the balance of legal parking
time, and at the expiration of such period shall indicate illegal
or overtime parking.
PARKING METER SPACE
Any space within a parking-meter zone adjacent to a parking
meter and which is duly designated for the parking of a single vehicle
by lines painted or otherwise durably marked upon the curb or the
surface of the street adjacent to or adjoining a parking meter.
PARKING METER ZONE
Any and all streets and parking fields set aside under provisions of this article for the installation of parking meters, and upon which parking meters shall have been installed and are in operation; and, in addition, those areas further defined in §
309-29 of this article.
PARK or PARKING
The stopping of a motor vehicle or motorcycle upon any public
highway and leaving such motor vehicle or motorcycle, whether occupied
or not, for a period longer than necessary to board or unload passengers
or freight.
PERSONS
Includes any individual, firm, copartnership, association
or corporation.
STREET
Any public street, highway, road, avenue, lane, path, court
or other public way in the Village established for the use of vehicles.
VEHICLE
Any device in, upon or by which any person or property is
or may be transported upon a highway, except a device which is operated
upon rails or tracks, except baby carriages.
The Chief of Police, or his designee is hereby
directed and authorized to mark off individual parking spaces in the
parking zones and in such other zones as may thereafter be established.
Said parking spaces are to be designated by lines painted or durably
marked upon the curbing or surface of the street. At each space so
marked it shall be unlawful to park any vehicle in such a way that
said vehicle shall not be entirely within the limits of the space
so designated.
[Amended 8-29-2011 by L.L. No. 12-2011]
A. Parking or standing a vehicle in a designated space
in a parking meter zone shall be lawful for the period indicated on
the meter.
B. Said parking meters shall be operated in curb parking
meter zones every day between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m.
except Sundays and holidays; provided, however, that within the meaning
of this article the term "holiday" shall include the following days
only: the First of January, the 30th of May, the Fourth of July, the
first Monday in September, the 25th day of December, and any day designated
and set aside by the President of the United States of America as
a legal holiday.
It shall be unlawful and a violation of the
provisions of this article for any person:
A. To cause, allow, permit or suffer any vehicle registered
in the name of or operated by such person to be parked overtime or
beyond the period of the legal parking time established for any parking
meter zone as herein described, or to deposit in any parking meter
any coin for the purpose of parking beyond the maximum legal parking
time for the particular parking meter zone.
B. To permit any vehicle to remain or be placed in any
parking space adjacent to any parking meter while said meter is displaying
a signal indicating that any vehicle occupying such parking space
has already been parked beyond the period prescribed for such parking
space.
C. To park any vehicle across any line or marking of
a parking meter space or in such position that the vehicle shall not
be entirely within the area designated by such lines or markings.
D. To deface, injure, tamper with, open or willfully
break, destroy or impair the usefulness of any parking meter installed
under the provisions of this article.
E. To deposit or cause to be deposited in any parking
meter any slugs, device or metal substance or other substitute for
lawful coins.
It shall be the duty of the Police Department
to enforce the provisions of this article.
It shall be the duty of the Village Treasurer
to designate a person or persons to make regular collections of the
money deposited in said meters, and it shall be the duty of such persons
so designated to remove from the parking meters the coins so deposited
and to deliver such coins to the Village Treasurer to count the funds
and deposit such funds as required by law.
The coins deposited in parking meters shall
be used to defray the expense of proper regulation of traffic upon
the public streets of the Village of Rockville Centre, including the
cost of the acquisition of land and constructing and maintaining off-street
parking facilities; to provide for the cost of supervision, regulation
and control of the parking of vehicles in parking meter zones; and
to cover the cost of purchases, supervision, protection, inspection,
installation, operation, maintenance, control and use of the parking
meters, insofar as such specific use of said moneys is permissible
under the law.
Nothing in this article shall be construed as
prohibiting the Village of Rockville Centre from providing for bus
stops, for taxicab stands and similar matters, including the loading
or unloading of trucks, vans or other commercial vehicles.
It shall be a violation of the provisions of
this article for any person to park, cause, allow, permit or suffer
any vehicle registered in the name of or operated by such person to
commit any violation prohibited by this article.