The following words and phrases, which are not
defined in Subtitle 1 of Title 39 of the Revised Statutes of New Jersey,
shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them in this article.
AUTOMATIC PARKING METER
A mechanical device containing a meter which will regulate
each parking space 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.
PARKING METER SPACE
Any space within a parking meter zone, 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
meter.
PARKING METER ZONE
Any restricted street or off-street parking lot upon which
parking meters are installed and in operation.
[Amended 11-6-1989 by Ord. No. 1473; 9-15-1992 by Ord. No. 1570; 3-22-2012 by Ord. No. 2093; 6-13-2019 by Ord. No. 2270]
There are hereby established the following parking zones:
A. On Route No. 17, from the northerly curbline of Route No. 7 to Union
Avenue, both sides. The installation of parking meters on the above
roadway is subject to such exceptions for bus stops and other prohibited
and restrictive parking as may be provided for by regulation, statute
or ordinance.
B. Premises known as Lot 55 in Block 10 on the Tax Assessment Map of
the Borough of North Arlington, Bergen County, New Jersey (Revision
1959), a parcel of land fronting Ridge Road in the Borough of North
Arlington. Parking meters may be installed in said parking meter zone
in spaces provided. Said parking zone shall be known and designated
as "Borough Parking Lot No. 2."
C. Premises known as Lot 66 in Block 10, a parcel of land fronting on
Belleville Turnpike (Route No. 7) in the Borough of North Arlington.
Parking meters may be installed in said parking meter zone in spaces
provided. Said parking zone shall be known and designated as "Borough
Parking Lot No. 1."
D. Premises known as Block 10, Lot 51 (a parcel of land fronting on
Ridge Road in the Borough of North Arlington). Parking meters may
be installed in said parking meter zone in spaces provided. Said parking
zone shall be known and designated as "Borough Parking Lot No. 3."
The Police Department is hereby directed and authorized to provide for the marking off of individual parking spaces in the parking zones designated and described in §
187-36, 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 such vehicle shall not be entirely within the limits of the space so designated.
In said parking meter zones, the governing body shall cause parking meters to be installed upon the curb, sidewalk or area immediately adjacent to the parking spaces provided in §
187-37. No parking meters shall be installed in areas where parking is prohibited pursuant to the provisions of N.J.S.A. 39:4-138. The Police Department shall be responsible for the regulation, control, operation and use of such parking meters. The Department of Public Works shall be responsible for the repair and maintenance 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 by said §
187-45. 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.
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 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.
[Amended 11-6-1989 by Ord. No. 1473; 8-14-1991 by Ord. No.
1541]
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 local 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 a 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 section.
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.
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 hereby 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.