As used in this article, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
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 ZONE OR PARKING ZONE
Any and all areas, streets or portions of streets as may
hereafter be set aside under the provisions of this article for the
installation of parking meters or as may hereafter be designated for
installation of parking meters by resolution of the Board of Trustees
or by amendment thereto, and upon which parking meters have been installed
and are in operation. All frontage of said streets, areas or portions
of streets defining said zones are to be deemed included therein.
PERSON
Includes any individual, firm, copartnership, association,
limited liability company 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.
Parking or standing a vehicle in a designated
space in a parking meter zone shall be lawful as follows:
A. Two-hour parking meter zone. In a two-hour parking
zone the deposit of each quarter will permit parking for 60 minutes,
up to a maximum of two hours. Where the parking meter is so equipped,
an additional ten-minute grace period shall be added to the first
sixty-minute period of permissible parking at such parking meter ad
parking shall be permitted for up to a maximum of two hours and 10
minutes.
B. Four-hour parking meter zone. In a four-hour parking
meter zone, the deposit of each quarter will permit parking for one
hour up to a maximum of four hours. Where the parking meter is so
equipped, an additional ten-minute grace period shall be added to
the first one-hour period of permissible parking at such parking meter
and parking shall be permitted at such parking meter for up to a maximum
of four hours and 10 minutes.
C. Twelve-hour parking meter zone. In a twelve-hour parking
meter zone, the deposit of each quarter will permit parking for one
hour, up to a maximum of 12 hours.
[Amended 2-3-2003 by L.L. No. 1-2003]
D. Special two-hour parking meter zone. In a special
two-hour parking meter zone on the north and south sides of Central
Avenue from Washington Avenue to Prospect Street and such other areas
as may be designated by the Board of Trustees by the adoption of a
resolution, the deposit of each quarter will permit parking for 30
minutes, up to a maximum of two hours. Where the parking meter is
so equipped, an additional ten-minute grace period shall be added
to the first thirty-minute period of permissible parking at such parking
meter for up to a maximum of two hours and 10 minutes.
The Commissioner of Public Works is hereby directed
and authorized to provide for the marking off of individual parking
spaces in the parking zones designated and described by the Board
of Trustees and in such other zones as may hereafter be established.
Said parking spaces shall be designated by lines painted or marked
on the curbing or surface of the street or lot. 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 Commissioner
of Public Works shall cause parking meters to be installed upon the
curb, sidewalk or area immediately adjacent to the parking spaces
provided in this article. The Commissioner of Public Works 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.
Except in a period of emergency determined by
an officer of the Fire or Police Department 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 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.
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; when a parking meter shall
have been installed at the head of and immediately adjacent to any
parking space on a municipal off-street parking lot, 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; provided, however, that in municipal off-street
parking lots, signs shall be erected indicating that head-on parking
only is permitted. 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 in such position that the vehicle shall not be entirely
within the area designated by such lines or markings.
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. On streets where parking is governed by parking meters,
it shall be prohibited to park a vehicle other than at such areas
so designated by a meter.
[Added 12-8-1997 by L.L. No. 10-1997]
The coins required to be deposited in parking
meters as provided herein are hereby levied and assessed as fees to
provide for the proper regulation and control of traffic upon the
public streets and also the cost of supervising and regulating the
parking of vehicles in the parking meter zones created thereby and
to cover the cost of the purchase, supervision, protection, inspection,
installation, operation, maintenance, control and use of the parking
meters described herein.
It shall be the duty of the Village Clerk-Treasurer
to designate some proper person or persons to make regular collections
of the moneys deposited in said meters, and it shall be the duty of
such person or persons so designated to remove from the parking meters
the locked containers therein containing the coins so deposited in
said meters and to deliver such locked containers to the Clerk-Treasurer,
who shall unlock them and count the funds contained in such containers
and deposit such funds in the usual manner provided by law.