The following words and phrases shall have the
meanings respectively ascribed to them in this section for purposes
of this article:
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 Director of Public
Safety 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.
Any space within a parking meter zone, which is adjacent
to a parking meter and which is duly designated for the parking of
a single vehicle by lines painted or otherwise durably marked on the
curb or on the surface of the street or lot adjacent to or adjoining
the parking meters.
Any restricted on-street parking area or off-street parking
lot upon which parking meters are installed and in operation.
Any restricted on-street parking area which limits the amount
of time a person can park any vehicle within a designated area.
The Director of Public Safety is hereby authorized to provide for the marking off of individual parking spaces in the parking meter zones and zone parking areas designated and described in Schedule XXVII (§ 224-101), said parking spaces to be designated by lines painted or marked on the curbing or surface of the street or lot or by signage. At each space so marked off, 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.
In said parking meter zones, the Director of
Public Safety shall cause parking meters and/or zone parking signage
to be installed upon the curb, sidewalk or area immediately adjacent
to the parking spaces provided in this article. No parking meters
shall be installed in areas where parking is prohibited pursuant to
other regulations. The Director of Public Safety shall be responsible
for the regulation, control, operation, maintenance and use of such
parking meters. Each device shall be so set as to display a signal
showing legal parking upon the deposit of the appropriate coin, lawful
money of the United States of America, for the period of time prescribed
in this article. Each device shall be so arranged that upon the expiration
of the lawful time limit, it will indicate by a proper, visible signal
that the lawful parking period has expired, and in such case the right
of such vehicle to occupy such space shall cease, and the operator,
owner, possessor or manager thereof shall be subject to the penalties
hereinafter provided.
There shall not be permitted in any parking
space controlled by a meter, whether bagged or not, or area designated
as zone parking, any carrying on of commercial or other business without
special permission from the City Council.
A.
Except in a period of emergency determined by a police
officer, or in compliance with the directions of a police officer
or traffic control sign or signal, when any vehicle shall be parked
in any parking space alongside or next to which a parking meter is
located, the operator of such vehicle shall, upon entering the said
parking meter space, immediately deposit or cause to be deposited
in said meter such proper coin of the United States of America as
is required for such parking meter and as is designated by proper
directions on the meter, and when required by the directions on the
meter, the operator of such vehicle, after the deposit of the proper
coin, shall also set in operation the timing mechanism on such meter
in accordance with directions properly appearing thereon, and failure
to deposit such proper coin and to set the timing mechanism in operation
when so required shall constitute a violation of this article. Upon
the deposit of such coin (and the setting of the timing mechanism
in operation when so required), the parking space may be lawfully
occupied by such vehicle during the period of time which has been
prescribed for the part of the street in which said parking space
is located, provided that any person placing a vehicle in a parking
meter space adjacent to a meter which indicates that unused time has
been left in the meter by the previous occupant of the space shall
not be required to deposit a coin so long as his or her occupancy
of said space does not exceed the indicated unused parking time. If
said vehicle shall remain parked in any such parking space beyond
the parking time limit set for such parking space and if the meter
shall indicate such illegal parking, then and in that event such vehicle
shall be considered as parking overtime and beyond the period of legal
parking time, and such parking shall be deemed a violation of this
article.
B.
Persons who are certified by a physician to be physically
disabled and confined to a wheelchair who operate a vehicle equipped
to transport the driver while occupying a wheelchair shall be exempt
from the two-hour maximum time limit, when required. The handicapped
parking placard applicable to the person hereinbefore excepted shall
bear the signature of the City Clerk indicating "two-hour time limit
exempt" and shall be displayed in the vehicle operated by the handicapped
person.
When a parking meter space is parallel with
the adjacent curb or sidewalk, no person shall park or permit the
parking of any vehicle in such parking space in any other position
than with the foremost part of such vehicle nearest to the parking
meter; when a parking meter space is diagonal to the curb or sidewalk,
no person shall park or permit the parking of any vehicle in such
parking space in any other position than with the foremost part of
such vehicle nearest to the parking meter. In any event, a vehicle
shall be parked within the lines marked on the pavement measuring
such parking space.
It shall be unlawful and a violation of the
provisions of this article for any person to:
A.
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 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.
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 the vehicle occupying such parking space
has already been parked beyond the period prescribed for such parking
space.
C.
Park any vehicle across any line or marking of a parking
meter space or zone parking space or in such position that the vehicle
shall not be entirely within the area designated by such lines, markings
or signs.
D.
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.
Deposit or cause to be deposited in any parking meter
any slug, device or metal substance or other substitute for lawful
coins.
F.
Park or permit the parking of any vehicle in any parking
meter space where the meter does not register lawful parking.
G.
Park in excess of any time limit of a designated zone
parking area.
A.
It shall be the duty of police officers and parking
enforcement officials, acting in accordance with instructions issued
by the Chief of Police, to report:
(1)
The number of each parking meter or parking zone which
indicates that the vehicle occupying the parking space adjacent to
such parking meter or within such zone is or has been parked in violation
of any of the provisions of this article.
(2)
The state license number of such vehicle.
(3)
That such vehicle is parked in violation of any of
the provisions of this article.
(4)
Any other facts, a knowledge of which is necessary
to a thorough understanding of the circumstances attending such violation.
B.
Each such police officer and parking enforcement official
shall also attach to such vehicle a notice to the owner thereof that
such vehicle has been parked in violation of a provision of this article,
and instructing such owner to report to the City Court with regard
to such violation.
C.
Violations may be appealed by completing a letter
of protest form at the Corning City Finance Office within 14 days
of issuance. The increase in the original fine is waived upon submission
of the letter of protest form. A date will be scheduled for a first
appearance in the Corning City Court within 30 days to answer the
violation. Failure to appear at the first appearance will result in
the issuance of a citation letter and the original fine will be doubled.
A summons will be issued 40 days after the initial violation date
and the original fine will be doubled. Failure to appear to answer
the violation may result in the issuance of a warrant of arrest and/or
suspension of registration(s) for the registered owner of the vehicle
in violation.
Any vehicle left parked for a period exceeding
24 hours succeeding expiration of the maximum parking time indicated
during the hours of operation specified in the space in which the
vehicle is parked may be towed at the owner's expense, under the direction
of the Chief of Police or his/her designee. After removal of any vehicle
as provided in this article, the Chief of Police or his/her designee
may store or cause to be stored such vehicle in a suitable place at
the expense of the owner.
It shall be the duty of the Chief of Police
to designate a person or persons to make regular collections of the
moneys deposited in said meters and such person shall deliver the
same to the Finance Department.
