In said parking meter zones, meters shall be installed within or near the curbline facing alongside of such spaces as may be designated by the Board of Trustees, and which spaces they deem advisable or necessary for the proper regulation of parking of vehicles, said installation to be placed not more than two feet from the curb nor more than four feet from the front line of the parking space as indicated and which spaces shall be marked out as individual parking meter spaces for vehicles. Each of such meters shall be set to operate upon the deposit therein of five-cent or ten-cent coins of the United States of America for the period of time prescribed as parking time limits in §
191-18 of this chapter. Each of such meters shall be so arranged so as to show or display a signal, and which shall clearly indicate whether the time limit during which parking in that space is permitted has expired.
[Amended 9-5-1995 by L.L. No. 2-1995; 5-20-2002 by L.L. No.
2-2002; 10-6-2008 by L.L. No. 6-2008]
Except in a period of emergency determined by
an officer of a fire company or of the Police Department, or except
in compliance with the directions of a police officer or traffic control
signal, when any vehicle shall be parked in a space regulated by a
parking meter, between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. daily,
Monday through Saturday, with meters exempt on Sundays and holidays,
the owner, operator or driver of such vehicle shall, upon entering
said parking space, immediately deposit the required coins of the
United States of America, in the parking meter regulating such space
and placed in front or alongside thereof. The legal signal shall be
white and fully cover the dial glass window. The illegal signal shall
be red and fully cover the glass dial window.
[Amended 10-6-2008 by L.L. No. 6-2008]
Any vehicle parking or standing in any designated
parking space in a parking meter zone shall be parked within the lines
marked on the street or curb and may occupy said space during the
parking limit provided by the ordinances of the Village of Saugerties
for the part of the street in which said parking space is located.
Parking or standing a vehicle in a designated space in a parking meter
zone shall be lawful for 30 minutes upon deposit of a twenty-five-cent
coin, for 60 minutes upon deposit of two twenty-five-cent coins, or
for 120 minutes or less upon deposit of four twenty-five-cent coins
of the United States of America. Parking of vehicles is hereby prohibited
for a period of longer than two hours. Failure to deposit such proper
coin shall constitute a violation of this chapter. Upon the expiration
of the legal parking time, it shall be the duty of the owner or driver
of the vehicle forthwith to remove the vehicle from the parking space,
and it shall be unlawful for any person to cause, allow, permit or
suffer any such vehicle registered in his name to be parked or standing
overtime, or remain therein beyond the parking time limit prescribed
by this chapter.
It shall be unlawful for any person to deface,
injure, tamper with, willfully break, destroy or impair the usefulness
of, or to open without lawful authority any parking meter installed
in said parking meter zones. It shall be unlawful to deposit or cause
to be deposited in any parking meter any slug, device or substitute
for a five-cent coin or a ten-cent coin of the United States of America.
The Board of Trustees shall designate some competent
person who shall cause the containers placed in said parking meters
for the purpose of receiving coins deposited, pursuant to the provisions
hereof, to be sealed at the time the same are placed in said meters.
The Board of Trustees is authorized to designate and assigns or causes
to be designated and assigned a competent person or persons to make
such collection. Collection shall be made by removing from the meters
the sealed containers containing deposits and replacing said containers
with empty, sealed containers. The person or persons making such collections
shall then promptly turn over said collected containers with the seals
unbroken, together with all contents thereof, to the Village Treasurer,
who shall break the seals on said containers and remove the moneys
therefrom.
Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of Article
VII of this chapter shall, upon conviction, be guilty of a violation punishable by a fine or $250 or 15 days’ imprisonment, or by both such fine and imprisonment.