Borough of Indiana, PA Chapter 288 Parking Meters

[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council of the Borough of Indiana 5-7-1968 by Ord. No. 896 (Ch. XVI, Part 2, of the 1971 Code of Ordinances); amended in its entirety 10-4-2022 by Ord. No. 2022-04. Subsequent amendments noted where applicable.]

§ 288-1 Parking meter zones and lots established; days and hours of operation.

It shall be unlawful for the owner or operator of any motor vehicle to park such vehicle between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m., Monday through Saturday, for more than the time designated on the meter erected at the parking space to be occupied upon the portion of the streets and lots herein described and designated as parking meter zones:

A. Philadelphia street: 400 through 1100 blocks;

B. North Fifth Street: Philadelphia to Water Street;

C. South Fifth Street: Philadelphia to Church Street;

D. North Sixth Street: Philadelphia to Water Street;

E. South Sixth Street: Philadelphia to School Street;

F. North Seventh Street: Philadelphia to Water Street;

G. South Seventh Street: Philadelphia to School Street;

H. North Eighth Street: Philadelphia to Water Street;

I. South Eighth Street: Philadelphia to School Street;

J. South Ninth Street: Philadelphia to Church Street;

K. South Tenth Street: Philadelphia to Gompers Avenue and School Street to Oakland Avenue;

L. South Carpenter Avenue: Philadelphia to School Street;

M. Church Street: Sixth Street to Eighth Street;

N. Water Street: Ninth Street to Fifth Street;

O. North Taylor Avenue: Philadelphia to Water Street;

P. South Taylor Avenue: Philadelphia to Church Street;

Q. Clymer Avenue: Church Street to Klondyke Avenue;

R. School Street: Oakland Avenue to Seventh Street;

S. Washington Street: Foundry Avenue to Eleventh Street;

T. Papermill Avenue: Grant Street to Willow Avenue;

U. Grant Street: Eleventh Street to Oakland Avenue;

V. Locust Street: Seventh Street to Rice Avenue;

W. South Street: Seventh Street to Rice Avenue;

X. Eighth Street Municipal Lot: meters located inside the lot;

Y. South Seventh Street: Locust to Grant Street;

Z. West Avenue: School Street to Washington Street.

§ 288-2 Parking rates and time limitations.

The cost of parking any motor vehicle in any parking space located within the parking meter zones herein designated shall be set by the current fee schedule set by Borough Council and the maximum amount of time which any motor vehicle or other vehicle may be parked or otherwise allowed to remain parked within parking meter zones herein designated by the time limit posted on the parking meter.

§ 288-3 Designation of individual parking spaces; erection of parking meters.

On streets so designated there shall be parking spaces approximately 12 feet in width and 22 feet in length for angular parking and spaces of approximately 6 1/2 feet in width and 22 feet in length for parallel parking marked by lines on the curb or pavement or by other appropriate markings; and on the sidewalk adjacent to each curb parking space, there shall be erected a parking meter, which upon the deposit of a coin or coins or cell phone parking payment application as hereinafter provided will indicate the duration of the legal parking period and the time when such period has elapsed.

§ 288-4 Meter payment.

In order that the police parking enforcement officers may properly compute the time during which a vehicle is parked, the owner or operator shall upon entering such parking space, during the time of limited parking, immediately deposit a quarter, dime, nickel or a combination of said coins, unless otherwise specified, in the parking meter alongside of or next to said parking space in the amount required in accordance with the instructions thereon, and failing to do so shall constitute a violation of this chapter. Payment may also be made by cell phone parking payment application.

§ 288-5 Unlawful parking in parking meter zones.

It shall be unlawful for any person to cause, allow, permit, or suffer any such vehicle registered in his or her name or custody and control to be parked in parking meter zones herein designated in violation of the provisions of this chapter.

§ 288-6 Vehicles to be parked wholly within parking spaces.

It shall be unlawful to park any vehicle across any line or marking designating a parking space or to park said vehicle in any way that same shall not be wholly within a parking space as designated by said markings.

§ 288-7 Unlawful to deface or tamper with parking meters.

It shall be unlawful to deface or tamper with, damage, open or willfully break, destroy, or impair the usefulness of any parking meter installed under the terms of this chapter.

§ 288-8 Parking not permitted where otherwise prohibited.

Nothing contained in this chapter or in any ordinance hereafter establishing parking meter zones shall be construed to permit parking of vehicles in those spaces within any zone in which by other ordinances of the Borough parking is prohibited.

§ 288-9 Violations and penalties; parking tickets.

The fee for parking citations shall be established according to the current fee schedule set by Borough Council. The placement of one parking ticket upon a vehicle shall not excuse a continuance of overparking, and the police officer or parking enforcement officer shall have authority to place an additional ticket upon said vehicle whenever the period of 60 minutes shall have elapsed following the prior placement of a parking ticket thereon.