The following words and phrases shall have the
meanings respectively ascribed to them in this section for purposes
of this article:
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 Board of
Trustees 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 space within a parking meter zone, which is adjacent
to a parking meter and which is duly designated for the parking of
a single vehicle by lines painted or otherwise durably marked on the
curb or on the surface of the street or lot adjacent to or adjoining
the parking meters.
Any restricted on-street parking area or off-street parking
lot upon which parking meters are installed and in operation.
The Chief of Police, upon instruction by the Village Board of Trustees, is hereby directed and authorized to provide for the marking off of individual parking spaces in the parking meter zones designated and described in Schedule XXVII (§ 173-75), said parking spaces to 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 Chief of Police
shall cause parking meters to be installed upon the curb, sidewalk
or area immediately adjacent to the parking spaces provided in this
article. The Chief of Police 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,
or during the period from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 a.m. of the following
day, unless established otherwise in this article, 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 the 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 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.
[Amended 4-25-2016 by L.L. No. 1-2016]
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. In any event, a vehicle shall be parked within
the lines marked on the pavement measuring such parking space.
In areas not designated as ten-hour parking
areas, an amount as set forth by resolution of the Village Board of
Trustees in the Master Fee Schedule, which may be amended from time
to time. In the areas designated as ten-hour parking areas, deposit
of token is to be purchased as the Village office.
A.
The provisions of this article shall not apply in
the following instances:
(1)
On holidays and Sundays.
(2)
To firemen responding to an alarm of fire.
(3)
To officers, officials and representatives of the
Village, or of any municipality of the state or the United States
while on official business; provided that the vehicles of such persons
shall have clearly and prominently displayed thereon a sign or other
device not less than four inches by eight inches in size, stating
the name of the municipality or government and the branch or department
represented by such person or the office held by him or her.
(4)
To police officers while on duty or performing any
police function event though off duty.
(5)
Before 8:00 a.m. or after 6:00 p.m. of any day.
B.
Commercial trucks. Commercial trucks may park in parking
meter spaces to load or unload merchandise without depositing coins
for such period only as is required for such loading or unloading.
Such parking of any truck for a period longer than that required for
loading or unloading merchandise shall be deemed a violation of this
article.
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.
A.
It shall be the duty of the police officers, acting
in accordance with instructions issued by the Chief of Police, 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 police officer 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 Village Court with regard to such violation.
Any vehicle left parked for a period exceeding
72 hours succeeding expiration of the maximum parking time indicated
during the hours of operation specified in the space in which the
vehicle is parked shall be towed, under the direction of the Police
Department, to the Village Garage or any other place designated by
the Chief of Police for impoundment, subject to redemption by the
owner upon payment of the reasonable cost of towing and a storage
charge of $150 for each day or portion thereof during which it remains
in said garage or other place.
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 Chief of Police
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 Treasurer,
who shall unlock them and count the funds contained in such containers
and deposit such funds in the usual manner provided by law.
