[Amended 5-2-1996 by Ord. No. 1246; 3-20-2003 by Ord. No. 1295]
A. 
The following are established as the metered parking lots operated by the Borough:
Lot
Location
Rate
Time Limit
Guenther Municipal Lot - Church Lane and Guenther Avenue
All spaces
$0.25 per hour
Up to 24 hours
Myra Municipal Lot - Church Lane and Myra Avenue
All spaces
$0.25 per hour
up to 24 hours
B. 
The parking meters in the metered lots shall be in operation, the parking lots shall be open for parking and the provisions of this article regulating the operation of parking meters and establishing parking time limits shall be in force on the days and between the hours prescribed for the individual lots.
C. 
No persons shall operate any motor vehicle within a municipal parking lot in any direction contrary to any posted sign or directional arrow painted on the lot. Penalties for violating this subsection shall be the same as penalties provided by ordinance, statute or other law for traveling in the wrong direction on any one-way street located within the Borough.
D. 
No person shall park any motor vehicle within said parking spaces in any direction contrary to any posted sign or directional arrow. Penalties for violating this subsection shall be the same as penalties provided by ordinance, statute or other law for traveling in the wrong direction on any one-way street located within the Borough.
Parking meters installed in the parking lots shall be placed immediately adjacent to the individual parking spaces that shall be marked off and maintained in the lots. For each parking meter, there shall be a clear indication, through the use of a directional arrow, or other identification as to number with the parking space, to show which individual parking space it serves. Each parking meter shall indicate, by a proper legend, the parking rate and the maximum parking time established by § 285-51. When the parking space is occupied and the parking meter is put into operation by the insertion of one or more coins, the parking meter shall indicate on and by its dial and pointer the duration of legal parking, and, upon the expiration of that period, shall indicate illegal parking or overparking.
Council, at its discretion, may provide, at convenient and suitable locations in any one or more of the metered parking lots, reserved parking spaces for handicapped persons and shall designate those spaces by appropriate signs. No person shall park a vehicle in any such reserved parking space unless that vehicle bears or displays either a handicapped registration plate, a handicapped parking placard, a disabled veteran registration plate or a disabled veteran placard.
Lines and/or markings shall be painted or placed upon the surface of the metered parking lots, adjacent to each parking meter, for the purpose of delineating the parking space for which that meter shall be used. Every vehicle parked adjacent to any parking meter shall be parked wholly within the lines or markings so placed and applicable to that meter. No person shall park a vehicle:
A. 
Across any such line or marking;
B. 
In such a position that the vehicle shall not be within the area so delineated by the lines or markings; or
C. 
Elsewhere in any such lot than in an individual parking space adjacent to a parking meter.
No person shall park a vehicle in any metered parking lot:
A. 
Otherwise than with the front of the parked vehicle nearest to the parking meter applicable to that vehicle; or
B. 
With any part of the vehicle touching the meter post or head or the raised base or barrier on which the meter is erected.
Whenever a vehicle is to be parked in any metered parking lot, at any time when the lot is open for use and the meters are to be in operation, the driver of the vehicle, upon entering the parking space, shall immediately deposit or cause to be deposited in the proper parking meter one or more proper coins of the United States as specified in the legend on the parking meter. Upon the deposit of the coin or coins, and upon placing the meter in operation, the parking space may be lawfully occupied by the vehicle for the time indicated on the meter. If any vehicle remains in any such parking space for such length of time that the meter indicates that the lawful parking time has expired, that vehicle shall be considered as being parked overtime, and the parking of a vehicle overtime shall be a violation of this article. Every hour that a vehicle remains parked at a meter showing a violation shall constitute a separate violation.
No person shall deposit in any parking meter installed under this article any slug or other substitute for a coin of the United States.
No person shall permit a vehicle to remain in a parking space adjacent to a parking meter installed under this article when that meter displays a signal indicating that the vehicle has already been parked there beyond the period of time prescribed for that parking space or the time for which a coin was deposited in that meter for the parking of that vehicle.
No person shall deface, tamper with, open or willfully break, destroy or impair the usefulness of any parking meter installed under this article. However, nothing in this section shall apply to the servicing or opening of parking meters by officers, employees or police officers of the Borough under the direction of the Mayor or Council.
The metered parking lots established by this article shall be for the use of passenger cars, passenger vans and pickup trucks only, and no person shall park any other type of vehicle in any of such lots.
A. 
Police officers and parking enforcement personnel of the Borough, acting in accordance with the directions of the Chief of Police, shall report:
(1) 
The number of each parking meter that indicates that a vehicle occupying the adjacent parking space is or has been parked in violation of any of the provisions of this article;
(2) 
The date and hour of the violation;
(3) 
The license number of the vehicle; and
(4) 
Any other facts, the knowledge of which is necessary for a thorough understanding of the circumstances attending the violation.
B. 
The police officer or other person making the report shall also place on or attach to the vehicle a "ticket" (notice) to the owner or driver of the vehicle that the vehicle was parked in violation of this article and instructing the owner or driver that if he or she reports to the office of the Chief of Police and pays to the Borough the sum of $10 within 48 hours after the time of the notice, or places the sum of $10, enclosed within the envelope provided, in any of the special parking fine boxes installed at various locations within the Borough within that time limit, that act will save the violator from prosecution and from payment of the fine prescribed in § 285-63A.
During periods of extreme weather-related emergencies (snow and flooding), parking meter operation may be suspended by the Mayor, Police Chief or Borough Manager. By resolution, Council may temporarily suspend the provisions of this article requiring coin deposit in meters and establishing a maximum parking time at meters for any reason it deems appropriate.
A. 
Whoever violates any of the provisions of this article, for which no penalty is otherwise provided, shall be fined not more than $15 and costs.
B. 
Whoever violates § 285-59 shall be fined not less than $75 nor more than $600 and costs, and, in default of the payment of such fine and costs, shall be imprisoned not more than 30 days.