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 use of a directional arrow, or an 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 §
214-57, and, when the parking space is occupied and the parking meter 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.
The Borough 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,
and shall designate those spaces by appropriate signs. It shall be
unlawful, and a violation of this article, for any person to park
in any such reserved parking space any vehicle 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. It shall be unlawful and a violation
of this article for any person:
A. To park a vehicle across any such line or marking.
B. To park a vehicle in such a position that the vehicle
shall not be within the area so delineated by the lines or markings.
C. To park a vehicle elsewhere in any such lot than in
an individual parking space adjacent to a parking meter.
It shall be unlawful for any person to 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.
B. With any part of the vehicle touching the meter post
or head or the raised base or barrier on which meters are 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 of America as specified in the legend on the parking meter.
Upon the deposit of the coin or coins, and 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; provided, every hour that a vehicle remains
parked at a meter showing a violation shall constitute a separate
violation of this article.
It shall be unlawful for any person to deposit
in any parking meter installed under the provisions of this article
any slug or other substitute for a coin of the United States of America.
It shall be unlawful and a violation of this
article for any person to 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 or coins was deposited in that
meter for the parking of that vehicle.
It shall be unlawful and a violation of this
article for any person to deface, tamper with, open or willfully break,
destroy or impair the usefulness of any parking meter installed under
the provisions of this article; provided, nothing in this section
shall apply to the servicing or opening of parking meters by officers,
employees or police officers of the Borough of Crafton under the direction
of the Police Chief or Borough Council.
The metered parking lots established by this
article shall be for the use of passenger cars, passenger vans and
pickup trucks only, and it shall be unlawful for any person to park
any other type of vehicle in any of those lots.