A.
Parking meter zones are hereby established on those
streets or parts thereof described as follows:
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Name of Street
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Side
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Location
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James Street
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East
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From Main Street to Jane Street
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Main Street
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North
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From Market Street to Partition Street
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Main Street
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South
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From West Bridge Street to Washington Avenue
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Market Street
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Both
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From Main Street to Ulster Avenue
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Partition Street
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Both
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From Russell Street to Municipal Building
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B.
All frontages on the said squares, streets and avenues
defining said zones are to be included therein.
C.
The above zones may be diminished or extended and
enlarged, or other parking meter zones may be created.
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.
A.
The fact that the timing device on any parking meter
is not in operation shall be presumptive evidence as to a parked vehicle
then found in the parking space regulated by such parking meter that
the owner or driver failed to deposit, or to cause to be deposited,
the required coin or coins in said meter, and the mechanical indication
by such meter of a violation shall be presumptive evidence of unlawful
parking.
B.
It shall be unlawful and an offense for any person
to deposit or cause to be deposited in a parking meter, any coins
for the purpose of extending the parking time beyond the total lawful
parking period fixed by this chapter of the Village of Saugerties
for the parking in the space alongside or next to which the parking
meter is placed.
C.
It shall be unlawful and an offense for any person
to permit a vehicle registered in his name to remain or be placed
in any parking space alongside of or next to which any parking meter
is placed while said parking meter is displaying a signal showing
that the time for which the privilege to park in such space has been
granted has expired.
D.
Vehicles shall at all times be parked wholly within
the parking meter spaces as marked, and where the parking meters are
placed in front of parking meter spaces, the radiator shall be as
near as possible to the parking meter controlling said spaces, and
where the parking meters are placed alongside of said parking meter
spaces, the front fender or front wheel of said vehicle shall be as
near as possible to the parking meter controlling said spaces, which
spaces shall be kept clearly marked at all times, and it shall be
unlawful to park vehicles in a way that the same shall not be wholly
within the area designated by the lines for parking for such spaces.
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.
A.
The provisions of this chapter may be temporarily suspended by the Chief of Police or the acting head of the Department of Police, and he may prescribe temporarily such other rules and regulations as traffic conditions may require. The Chief of Police may extend the time of the operation of said parking meters beyond the hours mentioned in § 191-17 hereof.
B.
It shall be the duty of the police officers of the
Village of Saugerties, acting in accordance with instructions issued
by the Chief of Police,[1] 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 or standing in violation of any of the provisions
of this chapter.
(2)
The state license number of such vehicle.
(3)
The time during which such vehicle is parked or standing
in violation of any of the provisions of this chapter at the time
of his inspection.
(4)
Any other facts, a knowledge of which is necessary
to a thorough understanding of the circumstances attending such violation.
Each such police officer shall also attach to such vehicle a notice
to the owner or operator thereof that such vehicle has been parked
in a violation of a provision of this chapter and instructing and
summoning such owner or operator to report at the Village Clerk's
office of the Village of Saugerties in regard to such violations.
Each such owner or operator may, within 48 hours of the time when
such notice was attached to such vehicle, pay to the Village Clerk/Village
Treasurer as a penalty for and in satisfaction of such violation the
sum of $50 for unauthorized parking in a handicap zone and $20 for
all meter violations and all parking violations. If the meter or parking
violation fine is paid within 14 days, such violation shall be reduced
to $10. After the 14th day and before the 31st day after the appearance
ticket is issued the fine will remain $20. After the 30th day the
fine automatically doubles from the original fine amount. From the
60th day after the appearance ticket is issued the fine automatically
triples from the original fine amount. The failure of such owner or
operator to make such payment of the sum of $50 or $20 to the Village
Clerk/Village Treasurer within said 48 hours shall render such owner
or operator subject to the penalties hereinafter provided for violation
of the provisions of this chapter.
[Amended 11-15-1993 by L.L. No. 4-1993; 5-4-1998 by L.L. No. 1-1998; 10-6-2008 by L.L. No. 6-2008]
[1]
Editor's Note: The Village Police Department was abolished
1-19-2010 by L.L. No. 1-2010. Its duties have been assumed by the
Town Police Department.
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.
