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.
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.