It is hereby declared to be the purpose of the City of Corning, and pursuant to the provisions of § 72j of the General Municipal Law of the State of New York and any acts amendatory thereto, to establish, maintain and operate certain off-street motor vehicle parking lots herein sometimes called "public parking facilities," on lands now owned or leased, or hereafter acquired or leased, by the City of Corning for the specific purpose of providing motor vehicle off-street parking facilities and parking space for the convenience, welfare, safety and accommodation of the public and the promotion of the orderly flow of traffic and relieving traffic congestion. It is likewise the purpose of the City to provide for the operation, use and regulation of other City parking areas for motor vehicles, which shall not be open to or used by the general public, except as may be otherwise specifically provided or permitted.
For the purpose of this article, all words and terms not otherwise defined herein shall have the meaning set forth in Article 1 of the Vehicle and Traffic Law of the State of New York, as now in effect or hereafter amended, unless some other meaning is indicated by their context herein.
MOTOR VEHICLE
In addition to its ordinary meaning, includes motorcycles and trailers.
PARK, PARKING or PARKED
The stopping and standing of a motor vehicle, occupied or unoccupied, upon any portion of a public parking facility or City parking area for a period longer than necessary for the unloading of passengers therein,
PARKING TIME VIOLATION FEE
The total of the periods of time (in terms of the applicable time unit) a vehicle has been parked either without payment of the proper fee or after the expiration of the legal time paid for, multiplied by the applicable period rate for the parking space or spaces occupied by such vehicle.
A. 
All such parking lots and areas and the administration, operation and management thereof shall be under the supervision and control of the Director of Public Safety.
B. 
The Director of Public Safety shall have full power and authority to make rules and regulations, all, if and when certified by and filed with the City Clerk, to be of like force and effect as though enacted by the City Council and all to be enforced in the manner herein set forth. The Director of Public Safety shall likewise have the power and it shall be his/her duty to do any and all things necessary to the efficient operation of such public parking facilities and City parking areas.
C. 
The Director of Public Safety shall likewise determine the form and content of all signs, notices, space or rental tickets, violation tickets and the like. He/she shall be guided in its operative rules and regulations by the principle that the public parking facilities are to be used for the benefit of the public of the City on a "first come first served" basis insofar as reasonably possible.
The so-called City parking areas shall be of two general classes as may be fixed by the Director of Public Safety:
A. 
Active, for the use of such City motor vehicles and the motor vehicles of such City officials and employees and such visitors having official business with the City or in the City Hall as may be determined from time to time by the Director of Public Safety.
B. 
Storage, for the use of such City motor vehicles and the motor vehicles of such City officials and employees as may be determined from time to time by the Director of Public Safety and for the temporary storage, until other legal disposition has been made of motor or other vehicles or objects removed from their parking or resting places and impounded by the City either under this article or any other applicable law, ordinance or regulation.
A. 
The so-called public parking facilities may be of one or more classes or any combination or combinations thereof, all based on a scale of established fees:
(1) 
Metered, involving the regulation of motor vehicle parking time through the use of coin-actuated parking meters and multispace meters.
(2) 
Ticket, accomplishing similar results through the use of tickets made out and dispensed by the lot attendants.
(3) 
Single rental, involving rental through the use of tickets similarly issued on a weekly or monthly basis, by day or by night, or both, of individual general parking space privileges by a specifically described and licensed motor vehicle on a "first come first served" basis.
(4) 
Group rental, involving rental on a monthly basis by night of a specified group of parking spaces for the use of employees or patrons of particular establishments, but only in so far as this may be done without prejudice to the rights of the general public on a "first come first served" basis.
B. 
The Director of Public Safety shall fix the classes or combinations.
A. 
The Director of Public Safety shall provide for installation, regulation, control, operation and use of such individual parking meters and multispaced meters as may be deemed necessary in the public parking facilities, shall cause such meters to be maintained in good workable conditions, and shall cause the surface of all parking lots and areas to be marked off in regular individual parking spaces within each of which a separate motor vehicle may park. In all spaces where individual parking meters are used, each such meter shall be immediately adjacent to the individual space it is intended to control. Such meters shall be so constructed as to receive coins of the United States of certain denomination or denominations upon the insertion of which the legal parking time purchasable for such coin or coins shall be registered or displayed upon a signal or receipt.
B. 
Individual parking meters shall be constructed and actuated to remain in evidence until the expiration of the legal parking time purchased by such coins, and upon the expiration of such period, to change to indicate such expiration or violation of the legal parking time so purchased. Multispace meters shall provide a receipt which indicates the expiration time so purchased.
The parking fees for the various meters in such lots shall be as heretofore or hereafter established by the Director of Public Safety with approval of the City Council. The legal parking fines shall be set by the Director of Public Safety. Times and fees shall be plainly indicated either by a legend on or attached to each meter or by some other suitable device, sign, notice or pavement marking the proper coin or coins for use in such meter and the legal parking time purchased by one or more of such coins.
A. 
It shall be unlawful for any person to cause, allow, permit or suffer any motor vehicle registered in his or her name, or operated or controlled by him or her, to be parked upon any part of said public parking facilities:
(1) 
Without first complying with the rules, regulations, requirements and restrictions relating to the use thereof, including when and where required, the payment of the established fee therefor, as specified by appropriate signs, notices, pavement marking or legends upon, attached or adjacent to the appropriate parking meter between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, exclusive of holidays as defined in § 224-1B.
[Amended 9-2-2003; 12-4-2006; 10-6-2008]
(2) 
Other than completely within the appropriate lines or space marked or designated for the parking of one car, or, in the absence thereof, in the place or position designated by the lot attendant or police officer.
(3) 
In excess of the legal parking time for which he or she has paid.
B. 
It shall be unlawful for any person using or about to use one of said public parking facilities to refuse or fail to comply with the reasonable requests, directions or orders of a police officer or lot attendant, either verbal or in writing, handed to him or her or suitably attached to his or her vehicle.
C. 
It shall be unlawful for any person who causes a vehicle to occupy regulated parking spaces to insert coins in the parking meter applicable to such space after the period of time initially limited for the use of such space (sometimes called "meter feeding").
D. 
It shall be unlawful for any person to litter or permit the littering of any public parking facility with papers, boxes, cartons, advertising matter, cans, junk or any other unsightly or unwholesome matter, animal, vegetable or mineral.
E. 
It shall be unlawful for any person to park or to deposit or to leave on any part of a public parking facility any vehicle, not defined herein as a motor vehicle, or any object, animal or thing, other than the proper meter coins.
F. 
It shall be unlawful for any person to deposit or cause to be deposited in any parking meter on any public parking facility any slug, object or device or substitute for the proper United States coin required for the normal operating of such meter.
G. 
It shall be unlawful for any person, not so authorized, to deface, damage, tamper with, open or willfully break, destroy, plug or impair the usefulness, temporarily or otherwise, of any parking meter or standard, or attendant's quarters or accessories, poles, barriers, etc., installed on any public parking facility, or to attempt the same, or to aid or abet in doing or attempting the same.
H. 
It shall be unlawful for any person, not so authorized, to park upon any portion of a City parking area.
I. 
There shall not be permitted in any parking space any carrying on of commercial or other business without special permission from the City Council.
Actions or proceedings, civil or criminal, hereunder may be brought in the City Court of the City of Corning or in any other court of competent jurisdiction within the State of New York and, except for those under § 224-68E and F hereof, shall be heard by the court or judge without a jury.
In any prosecution or proceeding hereunder, proof of the registration plate displayed on a motor vehicle shall constitute in evidence a prima facie presumption that the registered owner of such vehicle was the person who parked such vehicle at the time when and the place where the alleged violation of this article occurred.
A. 
It shall be the duty of the police officers, parking officials and the lot attendants, with any necessary assistance on the part of the local police force, either when called upon or requested under special circumstances or as directed by the Director of Public Safety, to diligently oversee the use of the public parking facilities and the enforcement of this article and all lawful rules and regulations with respect thereto. The City Attorney shall likewise render any assistance necessary in the case prosecutions in court hereunder.
B. 
The lot attendants and parking officials are hereby designated and shall qualify as a special police officer of the City of Corning with like powers as regular patrolmen and peace officers as to all acts, matters and occurrences in, on or about the public parking facilities, but shall receive no additional compensation by reason thereof.
C. 
It shall be the duty of the local police force to enforce all provisions, rules and regulations respecting the City parking areas.
D. 
Either the lot attendants, parking officials or members of the local police force may arrest without a warrant for any violation of this article committed or continuing in their presence.
A. 
Whenever any motor vehicle shall remain parked in a public parking facility for 24 hours or more over the legal parking time paid for by the owner, operator or person in control thereof, or in violation of any other provisions of this article or the lawful rules and regulations of the Director of Public Safety, such vehicle may be removed and conveyed by or under the direction of a police officer, by means of towing the same or otherwise, to a City parking area, or to such garage, parking lot or place as such police officer may deem expedient and there impounded; and such removal, conveyance and impoundment shall be at the expense and risk of the owner of such vehicle and no liability on the part of the police officer or City shall accrue by reason thereof. If the violation is such as to obstruct or impede the normal and efficient operation of the facility, such removal and conveyance may be done immediately upon the discovery thereof. This removal procedure may be employed in like manner with respect to other vehicles, objects, things or animals improperly occupying any portion of a public parking facility.
B. 
Before the owner or person in charge of such motor vehicle, vehicle object, thing or animal shall be permitted to remove the same from its impoundment, he shall furnish evidence of his or her identity, ownership or right to possession, shall sign such affidavit and receipt therefor as may be required and shall pay to the Finance Department of the City of Corning the appropriate civil compromise violation charges hereinbefore specified plus the actual expenses of such removal, conveyance and impoundment.
All moneys received pursuant to the terms of this article and the rules and regulations of the Director of Public Safety in connection with any of the public parking facilities, whether from parking meter receipts, ticket sales, rentals, civil compromises, fines, penalties, special fees or whatsoever, shall be paid over to the Finance Director and credited to General Fund.
A. 
The Director of Public Safety promulgates the following rules and regulations concerning City parking lots.
(1) 
The charge for parking on said lots shall be at the rate indicated in § 224-9.
(2) 
Penalty for violations as they appear on the parking meter and for parking over a five-hour maximum period shall be as indicated in § 224-7.
(3) 
The maximum time of on-lot parking shall be as indicated in § 224-9.
B. 
City Hall parking lot. The parking of motor vehicles upon the lot adjacent to City Hall on the east side thereof be and the same hereby is limited to those vehicles specifically authorized which are in operation by officials and employees of the City of Corning, only. The allocation of spaces for parking upon the said lot be and the same hereby is for such authorized vehicles, only, as is designated by posted signs.
C. 
Municipal Lot No. 17. The parking of motor vehicles upon the area designated as "Municipal Lot No. 17" shall be lawful for not more than two hours per day, Monday through Friday, between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., and the time limit for any vehicle parked shall expire two hours after the commencement of the first time of parking, regardless if the vehicle is removed within the two- hour limit and returned to park again on the same day. Parking between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. is prohibited.
[Added 5-13-2015 by Traffic Reg. No. 2-2015]