[Adopted 2-8-1954 (Ch. 118, Art. II of the 1971 Code)]
The following article providing for the establishing,
maintenance, policing and supervision of parking meters and parking
meter zones in the City of Middletown, New York, shall be known and
cited as the "Parking Meter Ordinance of the City of Middletown, New
York."
A.
For the purpose of this article, the words "vehicle,"
"motor vehicle," "street," "highway" and "operator" shall have the
respective meanings as defined in the Vehicle and Traffic Law of the
State of New York.
B.
LONG-TERM PARKING
PARKING SPACE
SHORT-TERM PARKING
As used in this article, the following terms shall
have the meanings indicated:
Parking for a duration of more than two hours.
Refers to such parking spaces as are controlled by parking
meters and are spaces provided for the parking or standing of vehicles.
Parking for a duration of two hours or less.
(Reserved)
[1]
Editor's Note: Original § 118-39,
Parking meter zones, as last amended 10-13-1970, was repealed 5-23-1977.
Parking meters shall be installed in the parking
meter zones designated in this article by the Commissioner of Public
Works, in conjunction with the Police Department, and the Commissioner
of Public Works and Police Department shall also cause parking meter
spaces to be designated as hereinafter provided.
B.
In any of the parking meter zones or in any part or
portion of said separately designated parking meter zones, the Commissioner
of Public Works, in conjunction with the Police Department, may cause
a parking meter to be installed at each space in such zone or zones
which, in its discretion, is available for the parking of a vehicle
or vehicles, and there shall be plainly indicated on each of such
meters the time limitation during which said parking space may be
occupied. Such time limitation as hereinafter ordained shall be designated
by appropriate notice posted in proximity of said meters.
C.
Each parking meter shall be so placed or installed
upon the curb or sidewalk as to indicate clearly and adequately the
parking meter space to be controlled by such meter. Each meter shall
be placed so as to show or display, by a signal, that the adjacent
parking space is or is not legally in use. Each parking meter so installed
shall indicate by proper legend the legal parking time established
by the City. The meter, when operated, shall indicate by some appropriate
device the duration of the period of legal parking, and on the expiration
of such period shall indicate illegal over parking.
[Amended 2-28-1966]
The duration of occupancy of parking spaces in the zones designated in § 460-44 above shall be as prescribed and limited in the appropriate sections of Article I of this chapter. The aforesaid time limitation shall be applicable between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. daily, except Sunday and holidays, in all zones designated in § 460-44.
The Commissioner of Public Works, in conjunction
with the Police Department, shall have lines or markings painted or
placed upon the curbs or upon the street adjacent to each parking
meter for the purpose of designating the parking space for which said
meter is to be used, and each vehicle parking adjacent or next to
any parking meter shall park within the lines or markings so established.
It shall be unlawful and a violation of this article to park any vehicle
across any such line or markings or to park such vehicle in such a
position that the same shall not be entirely within the area so designated
by such lines or markings.
When a parking space in any parking meter zone
is parallel with the adjacent curb or sidewalk, any vehicle occupying
such parking space shall be placed so that the front of such vehicle
shall be nearest to the parking meter. When a parking space in any
parking meter zone is diagonal to the curb or sidewalk, any vehicle
occupying such space shall be placed in the parking space with the
front of such vehicle nearest to the meter.
The following regulations concerning fees to
be deposited in parking meters shall be applicable wherever parking
meters shall be installed in the City of Middletown.
A.
Parking meters shall be constructed in such a manner as to regulate parking to conform with limitations of occupancy set forth in Article I of this chapter. The meters shall be of two types:
B.
Meters of the penny-progressive-and-nickel type shall
be constructed so that deposit of each one-cent coin of the United
States will activate the parking meter mechanism to permit 12 minutes
of legal occupancy. The number of successive one-cent coins which
may be deposited to activate any parking meter mechanism shall be
limited to five for a total of one hour of parking time. Meters of
the short-term type shall be constructed to permit the use of pennies
only during the first hour or any portion thereof, and to permit the
use of one or two nickels to permit one hour of legal occupancy for
each nickel.
C.
Meters used to control long-term parking shall be
constructed so that:
(1)
A deposit of each five-cent coin of the United States shall activate the parking meter mechanism for one hour of legal occupancy of the adjacent parking space. Whenever parking shall be permitted for more than two hours, the deposit of each additional five-cent coin of the United States shall permit legal occupancy for an additional hour, not to exceed the total time limits set forth in the Article I of this chapter.
(2)
A deposit of each five-cent coin of the United States shall activate the parking meter mechanism for two hours of legal occupancy of the adjacent parking space. Whenever parking shall be permitted for more than two hours, the deposit of each additional five-cent coin of the United States shall permit legal occupancy for an additional two hours, not to exceed the total time limit set forth in Article I of this chapter.
[Amended 12-23-1957]
D.
When any vehicle shall occupy a parking space adjacent
to which a parking meter is located in accordance with the provisions
of this article, the operator of the vehicle shall, upon entering
the said parking space, immediately deposit or cause to be deposited
either five-cent coins of the United States or one-cent coins of the
United States, as heretofore provided, in such parking meter, and
failure to deposit any such coins shall constitute a violation of
this article and shall subject such persons to the penalties hereinafter
prescribed. Upon the deposit of such coins and placing said meter
in operation, the parking space may be lawfully, continuously occupied
by such vehicle during the period of parking time hereinbefore prescribed.
If said vehicle shall occupy the parking space beyond the time limit
aforesaid, the parking meter shall, by proper legend, indicate illegal
occupancy of parking space, and in that event such vehicle shall be
considered as parked overtime and beyond the period of legal parking
time, and the occupancy of space by the vehicle beyond the period
of legal parking time in any such part of a street where any such
meter is located shall be a violation of this article and punishable
as hereinafter set forth.
E.
It shall be unlawful and a violation of the provisions
of this article to deposit or cause to be deposited in any parking
meter in the City of Middletown any slug, device or metallic substitute,
or any substitute for a coin of the United States.
For the purpose of this article, those sections of Article I of this chapter regulating and controlling overtime and illegal parking shall be and become a part of this article.
A.
It shall be unlawful and a violation of this article
for any person to cause, allow, permit or suffer any vehicle to be
parked overtime or beyond the period of legal parking time established
for any parking meter zone as herein prescribed.
B.
It shall be unlawful and a violation of the provisions
of this article for any person to permit a 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 space has already occupied it beyond the period of time prescribed
for such parking space.
After an original occupancy of a parking meter
space for its legal duration, it shall be unlawful and a violation
of this article for any person to deposit or cause to be deposited
in a parking meter either an additional five-cent coin of the United
States or an additional one-cent coin of the United States for the
purpose of extending the parking time beyond the time fixed by this
article.
It shall be unlawful and a violation of the
provisions of this article for any person to deface, injure, tamper
with, open or willfully break, destroy or impair the usefulness of
any parking meter installed under the provisions of this article.
[Amended 1-7-2008]
The money deposited in the parking meters now
or hereafter provided for shall be collected under the supervision
of the Treasurer. Meters now or hereafter provided for shall be maintained
under the supervision of the Police Department.
[Amended 1-7-2008]
The Treasurer of the City of Middletown shall
keep a complete record of all collections made from the parking meters
and shall deposit such collections in the general fund of the City
of Middletown.
It shall be the duty of the police officers
or any special police officer of the City of Middletown to make a
report of any and all violations of this article.
A.
Reports of police officers shall contain the number
of each parking meter which indicates that the vehicle occupying the
parking space adjacent to such meter is or has been parked in violation
of any of the provisions of this article.
B.
Reports shall also contain the state license number
of vehicles in violation, and any other facts, a knowledge of which
is necessary to a thorough understanding of the circumstances attending
such violation.
C.
Each police or special police officer shall also attach
to such vehicle a notice to the owner or operator thereof that such
vehicle has been parked in violation of a provision of this article.
Each such owner may, within 24 hours of the time when such notice
was attached to such vehicle, pay to the officer in charge at police
headquarters the sum of $1 as a penalty for and in full satisfaction
of such violation. The failure of such owner or operator to make such
payment within said 24 hours shall render such owner or operator subject
to the penalties hereinafter provided for violation of the provisions
of this article.
Any person who shall violate any section of
this article, and any person who aids, abets or assists therein, shall
upon conviction thereof be subject to a fine of not more than $50
and shall stand committed until such penalty be paid, but not exceeding
one day for each dollar such fine unpaid.
this article shall be deemed to be in addition
and supplementary to, and not in conflict with or a repeal of, prior
or existing ordinances of the City of Middletown, except as hereinafter
stated, but shall be an additional provision for the regulation of
traffic and parking in those zones provided for herein.
In the event of a public emergency, the Mayor
of the City of Middletown shall have the power to suspend the operation
of the provisions of this article for the duration of such emergency.
