[Amended 10-20-1999 by Ord. No. 99-28; 12-3-1997 by Ord. No. 97-13; 2-7-2001 by Ord. No. 2001-5; 5-21-2008 by Ord. No. 08-07; 12-17-2008 by Ord. No. 08-16; 5-2-2018 by Ord. No. 2018-08; 5-15-2019 by Ord. No. 2019-07; 4-20-2022 by Ord. No.
2022-03]
A.
The parking
of tractors, trailers, tractor-trailers, dumpsters and roll-off containers
in the Borough of Seaside Heights shall be prohibited in all municipal
parking lots and all private parking facilities. This prohibition
shall not be construed to prevent the loading and unloading of said
tractors, trailers and/or tractor-trailers, dumpsters and roll-off
containers in designated areas for the purposes of delivery and pickup.
This prohibition shall not prevent the parking of said vehicles in
an area designated by the governing body for this purpose. The governing
body may, by resolution, designate an area for parking of said vehicles.
The annual fee for leasing one of these spots shall be $350 for residents
and $500 for nonresidents for any part of a calendar year and shall
be nonrefundable.
B.
The parking
of autobuses shall be prohibited on all public streets in the Borough
of Seaside Heights, County of Ocean, State of New Jersey.
C.
The parking of autobuses shall be prohibited in all off-street private parking facilities, except in those private parking facilities that have been approved by resolution of the governing body of the Borough of Seaside Heights after assessment of traffic flow and safety concerns and in light of proximity to, and type of, residential and commercial activities in close proximity to the facility in question. Parking of autobuses in private lots is subject to the limitations established by § 146-30 of this chapter.
D.
Any autobus
loading and unloading groups at the boardwalk or any boardwalk establishments
and parking in a municipal parking lot shall be required to obtain
a bus parking permit from the Seaside Heights Business Improvement
District, a special improvement district established pursuant to N.J.S.A.
40:56-67, which is hereby designated as the Borough's agent for issuance
of bus parking permits. All written requests for applications for
the permit must be received by the designated employee or agent not
later than 10 days before the day on which the autobus is intended
to be parked in the bus parking area. The request for an autobus parking
permit shall be granted only if there is sufficient available parking
space for the vehicle in the designated parking area on the date in
question. The request for an autobus parking permit shall be accompanied
by a fee of $40, which shall be returned if there is not sufficient
available space on the date requested.
[Amended 3-1-2023 by Ord. No. 2023-02]
E.
An autobus
may park in defined areas of the municipal parking lots located on
the west side of Bay Boulevard at Hamilton Avenue or the lot at Bay
Boulevard and Webster, provided such autobus displays a bus parking
permit obtained from the Seaside Heights Business Improvement District.
The parking of trailers and/or tractor trailers
at any time during the year in the Borough of Seaside Heights for
any time beyond which is reasonably required to unload said trailer
is prohibited, and it shall be unlawful for any trailer to be used
for an extended period as a storage or warehouse facility. Also no
vehicle with a gross vehicle weight of 6,000 pounds or more may be
parked on Borough streets from 11:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m.
From and after the effective date of this chapter,
the Police Department of this Borough shall be empowered to carry
out the provisions of this chapter and it shall be the responsibility
of said Police Department to take all reasonable steps to prevent
the parking or standing of autobuses on the public streets of the
Borough of Seaside Heights, as aforesaid.
A.
Any person violating or failing to comply with any
of the provisions of this chapter shall, upon conviction thereof,
be punishable by a fine of not more than $1,000, by imprisonment for
a term not to exceed 90 days or by community service of not more than
90 days, or any combination of fine, imprisonment and community service
as determined in the discretion of the Municipal Court Judge. The
continuation of such violation for each successive day shall constitute
a separate offense, and the person or persons allowing or permitting
the continuation of the violation may be punished as provided above
for each separate offense.
B.
The violation of any provision of this chapter shall
be subject to abatement summarily by a restraining order or injunction
issued by a court of competent jurisdiction.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Former Art. X, Schedules, which
immediately followed this subsection, was deleted 12-3-1997 by Ord.
No. 97-13.
