As used in this article, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
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.
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.
Includes any individual, firm, copartnership, association,
limited liability company or corporation.
Any public street, highway, road, avenue, lane, path, court
or other public way in the Village established for the use of vehicles.
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.
A.
The following parking areas or zones of the Village
are hereby designated and/or declared to be public streets:
(1)
Parking Area No. 1: Spruce Street to Washington Avenue,
north of Central Avenue.
(2)
Parking Area No. 2: west side of Cedarhurst Avenue
between Central Avenue and Broadway.
(3)
Parking Area No. 3: Chestnut Street between Cedarhurst
Avenue and Maple Avenue.
(4)
Parking Area No. 4: north side of Long Island Railroad
with entrance on Summit Avenue.
(5)
Parking Area No. 5: east side of Cedarhurst Avenue
north of the Long Island Railroad tracks.
(6)
Parking Area No. 6: Maple Avenue and Central Avenue,
southwest corner.
(7)
Parking Area No. 7: east side of Grove Avenue north
of Central Avenue, which area includes five free fifteen-minute parking
spaces at the west end reserved for Post Office parking.
(8)
Parking Area No. 8: Pearsall Avenue, west of Washington
Avenue, north of the Long Island Railroad tracks, consisting of free
parking only.
(9)
Parking Area No. 9: Willow Avenue between Cedarhurst
Avenue and Spruce Street.
(10)
Parking Area No. 10: east side of Washington
Avenue, opposite from the fire house.
(11)
Parking Area No. 11: Cedarhurst Station Plaza
from Spruce Street to Cedarhurst Avenue; also, north side of Chestnut
Street from Cedarhurst Avenue to Prospect Avenue.
B.
The parking hours at the above parking areas shall be from 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., exclusive of holidays as designated in § 250-1B.
[Amended 10-2-2017 by L.L. No. 3-2020]
C.
Limitation on permit parking enforcement. Where spaces are provided for permit parking as set forth in Subsection A above, the use of said spaces shall be limited to permit parking only, as follows:
D.
On Saturdays and Sundays there will be free metered
parking in all parking areas 1 through 10.
[Amended 9-13-1999 by L.L. No. 12-1999]
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]
A.
It shall be the duty of the Village officials appointed under the terms of § 5-1 of this Code to report:
(1)
The number of each parking meter which indicates that
the vehicle occupying the parking space adjacent to such parking meter
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 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 Municipal Court with regard to such violation.
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.
A.
Every bona fide resident of the Village owning an automobile shall be entitled to purchase, at a purchase price set pursuant to Subsection F, a permit or license permitting the parking of such automobile in designated parking fields or areas.
[Amended 6-3-2019 by L.L. No. 14-2020]
B.
Application for permits must be made by the owner
of the car, in person at the Village office, and said owner must at
the same time display to the Village Clerk-Treasurer his or her certificate
of car registration. He or she shall also submit an application, in
writing, which shall contain the name and address of the owner and
the vehicle license plate number, make and model of the car. Nonresidents
may also apply for said permits.
C.
The license or permit provided in Subsection A shall be evidenced by a sticker issued by the Village Clerk-Treasurer, which sticker shall be securely fastened to the passenger side, rear window or the passenger side, rear side window of the car for which it is issued and which shall at all times be displayed on such vehicle.
D.
The sticker issued pursuant to Subsection C shall contain a statement declaring substantially that the same is a parking license of the Village, shall bear a parking permit number as issued by the Village Clerk and shall provide that the same is operative and effective for use only in a stall or stalls, location or locations and area or areas in such parking field or fields where permit parking is permitted and so marked or designated.
E.
Any sticker must be affixed to the automobile for
which it is obtained within 24 hours after the same shall have been
issued by the Village office. However, in the event a permit is timely
purchased for the calendar year but not yet affixed, an expired properly
affixed permit from the immediately prior calendar year may serve
as proof of a validly purchased and not expired permit until the 15th
of January of the current year. No sticker shall be required to be
affixed to any automobile until January 1 of the year for which it
is issued, and there is hereby granted a grace period of 15 days beyond
said January 1 date within which to obtain and affix said sticker.
Any sticker for a fraction of a year must be affixed to the automobile
for which it is obtained within 24 hours after the same shall have
been issued by the Village office.
[Amended 6-3-2019 by L.L. No. 14-2020]
F.
The annual fees to obtain a permit for residents and
nonresidents to park in parking stalls in the parking fields of the
Village where designated shall be as set by resolution of the Board
of Trustees by a majority vote of its members present at a Board meeting.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: The fee schedule is on file
in the Village offices.
G.
All license or permits shall expire at midnight on
December 31 of each year and shall be issued and effective annually.
