Parking meter zones shall be as established
by the Mayor pursuant to policy guidance by the Town Council.
A.
The Mayor, pursuant to policy guidance by the Town
Council, shall provide for the purchase, acquisition, installation,
operation, maintenance, supervision, regulation and use of the parking
meters provided for in this article and shall maintain such parking
meters in good, workable condition. The Mayor may enter into a contract
of purchase on approval of the terms and conditions thereof by the
Town Council.
B.
The Mayor, subject to policy guidance by the Town
Council, shall fix the time limitations for legal parking in the parking
meter zones provided for in this article and the hours during the
day and night when parking meters are used and when the time limitations
shall be effective, in compliance with the provisions of this article.
The Town Manager shall indicate the time limitations fixed pursuant to § 190-35B by setting out such limitations on the parking meters or by appropriate signs posted in proximity to such parking.
Parking meters installed in the parking meter
zones shall be placed upon the curb along the street at intervals
deemed appropriate by the Town Manager.
The Town Manager shall have lines or markings
painted or placed upon the curb or upon the street adjacent to each
parking meter for the purpose of designating the parking meter space
for which the parking meter in question is to be used.
Each parking meter shall indicate by a signal
that the parking meter space adjacent to the meter in question is
legally in use or is not legally in use and, when operated, shall
indicate the duration of the period of legal parking. Upon expiration
of such period of legal parking, the parking meter shall indicate
illegal parking or overparking.
A.
When a vehicle shall be parked in any parking meter
space adjacent to a parking meter, the operator of such vehicle, upon
entering such parking meter space, immediately shall deposit or cause
to be deposited in such parking meter a one-cent or five-cent coin
or coins of the United States, which shall put such meter in operation
for the following prescribed periods of time:
B.
Failure to deposit such coin or coins of such specified
values and to put the meter in operation shall be unlawful. Upon deposit
of such coin or coins and the placing of the parking meter in operation,
the parking meter space may be lawfully occupied by such vehicle during
the period of parking time prescribed. If such vehicle shall remain
parked in such parking meter space beyond the prescribed parking time
limit, the parking meter shall indicate illegal parking, and such
vehicle shall be considered as parked overtime and beyond the prescribed
period of legal parking time.
Each vehicle parked adjacent or next to any parking meter shall park within the lines or markings referred to in § 190-38. It shall be unlawful for any person to park any vehicle across any such lines or markings or to park a vehicle in such position that the vehicle in question shall not be entirely within the parking meter space so designated by such lines or markings.
When a parking meter space, designated as provided in § 190-38, is parallel with the adjacent curb or sidewalk, a vehicle parked in such parking meter space shall be parked with the foremost part of such vehicle nearest to the parking meter to which the parking meter space in question is adjacent.
It shall be unlawful for any person to cause,
allow, permit or suffer any vehicle registered in his name or operated
by him to be parked overtime or beyond the period of legal parking
time established for any parking meter zone.
It shall be unlawful for any person to permit
any vehicle to remain or be placed in any parking meter space adjacent
to any parking meter while such meter is displaying a signal indicating
that the vehicle occupying such parking meter space has already been
parked beyond the period of time prescribed for such parking meter
space.
It shall be unlawful for any person to deface, injure, tamper with, open or willfully break, destroy or impair the usefulness of any parking meter except by authority of the Town Manager. Any person violating this section shall be punished as provided in § 1-16.
[Amended 3-12-1986; 11-13-1996]
A.
Any person who shall violate or fail to comply with any provision of this article for which no other penalties are provided shall be subject to a fine of not less than $10 nor more than $200 for each offense, provided that upon the attachment of a notice to a vehicle or upon personal service of a notice as provided in § 190-33, the recipient thereof may, within 48 hours of the time when such notice was attached to such vehicle or personally served, pay at the Town Office 1/2 of the following sums for and in full satisfaction of the violation in question. The failure of such owner or operator to make such payment as shown on the hereinafter set forth schedule within 48 hours shall render such owner or operator subject to the full penalty provided for below if paid voluntarily at the Town Office. The aforementioned forty-eight-hour time frame shall not include a Saturday, a Sunday or a Town Office observed holiday.
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Schedule of Violations and Fines to be
Paid at Treasurer's Office
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Type of Violation
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Fine
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Overtime parking
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$20
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Loading zone
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$20
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Prohibited area
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$50
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Restricted area
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$20
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Parked in handicapped zone
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$100
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Too close to fireplug
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$20
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Too close to intersection
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$20
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Too close to stop sign
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$20
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In crosswalk
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$20
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Obstructing traffic lane
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$20
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Parking on sidewalk
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$50
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Permit/Decal violation
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$50
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Double parking
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$20
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Wrong direction
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$20
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Keys in ignition
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$20
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Fire lane
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$20
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Alley
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$20
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Parked across lines
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$20
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Blocking private driveway
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$50
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B.
All uncontested citations paid under this section
shall be accounted for by the Town Treasurer. The contest, by any
person, of a parking citation shall be certified in writing, upon
an appropriate form, to the General District Court of the county by
the Chief of Police and shall render such owner or operator subject
to the full penalty provided for the violations of the provisions
of this chapter.
