This Article is adopted pursuant to the regulatory
powers conferred upon municipalities with respect to traffic and parking
regulations at parking yards, parking places and areas open to the
public or to which the public is invited, as set forth in N.J.S.A.
40:48-2.46.
As used in this Article, the following words
shall have the meanings indicated:
ACCESS LANE
The lanes provided for access to the parking spaces.
DIRECTIONAL ARROW
Arrows painted on the surface of the parking lot or depicted
on signs indicating the permitted direction of movement of traffic
in the access lanes.
ESTABLISHMENT
All public, private or commercial establishments, including
Township and public buildings and lots, schools, churches, theaters,
apartment houses, retail and wholesale stores and shopping centers,
providing or required to provide off-street parking for the use of
visitors, parishioners, students, teachers, customers, patrons, tenants
or employees or others parking their cars while having business at
or attending the establishment.
FIRE LANE
A ten-foot-wide lane abutting and parallel to the curbline
in front of and along the rear and side of the buildings comprising
the establishment and the access to and from them from the public
roads or streets bounding the parking lot for the use of firefighting
and other emergency equipment, provided that where it is impractical
to so located the "fire lane," it shall mean such substitute "fire
lane" for such purpose designated by the Township Fire Marshal.
PARKING LOT or ESTABLISHMENT PARKING LOT
The entire area so provided by the establishment for off-street
parking, including the means of access thereto by vehicle or on foot
from public streets, the buildings or other areas comprising the establishment,
including all parking spaces, access lanes, turnarounds and fire lanes.
PARKING SPACE
The space indicated on the surface of the parking lot for
parking a single vehicle.
The owners of a parking lot serving an establishment
shall clearly delineate with painted lines on the surface of the parking
lot each parking space, the permitted direction of traffic by directional
arrows and the fire lanes by a painted line and the phrase "fire lane"
or "fire lane — no parking." Where the surface is
such that painting is impractical, there shall be substituted concrete
or other markers and/or signs.
In the case of parking lots having a portion
reserved for parking or standing of cars of officials or employees
or for school buses or for loading or unloading areas or other purposes,
the permitted parking area so reserved shall be clearly marked and
the restriction painted on the surface or marked by a sign. No person
shall park a car in such a reserved area except in compliance with
the reservation.
The following persons shall have access to the
parking lot:
A. Police, emergency, utility or other persons or vehicles
necessarily entering the parking lot in discharge of their necessary
functions in connection therewith at any time.
B. Visitors, parishioners, students, customers or shoppers
during the time any of the establishments served by the parking lot
are open.