[HISTORY: Adopted by the City Council of the City of Harrisburg
by Ord. No. 138-1959. Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Amended 11-12-2014 by Ord. No. 13-2014]
Parking meter zones are established by the traffic control maps, authorized agents or by temporary regulations in conformity with Chapter 3-107, Temporary Traffic Regulations.
[Ord. No. 3-1988; amended 4-9-2013 by Ord. No. 3-2013; 11-12-2014 by Ord. No. 13-2014]
A.
Parking in any parking meter zone on Sundays and on the observance
of the following holidays is specifically excluded from the provisions
of this chapter:
B.
Such holidays as shall be designated by the collective bargaining agreement between the City and AFSCME District Council 90 shall be added to the list in Subsection A above. The Bureau of Police, Traffic Division, shall provide to the City Clerk on or before December 31 of each year an updated list of all applicable holidays for the next year, which list shall be the controlling authority in the event of future changes and/or additions to the holiday schedule noted herein.
[Amended 11-12-2014 by Ord. No. 13-2014; 9-28-2021 by Ord. No. 12-2021]
A.
In all parking meter zones, a parking meter, multispace meter or
other technologies may be installed to regulate each parking space.
All parking spaces shall be plainly designated by signage, lines or
markings on the highway or other parking facilities and may be placed
either parallel or diagonal to the curb or by any other methods for
designation.
B.
For the purposes of this chapter, "other technologies" shall mean
the process for purchasing parking time through pay-by-phone via the
use of technology, including telephone, cellular telephone, telephone
automation, text message, mobile application, the Internet, or other
indicated payment options that may arise from time to time.
C.
For the purposes of this chapter, "parking meter" means any device,
machine, technology or process responsible for regulating parking
by accepting legal currency, credit cards, debit cards, smart cards,
tokens or any other approved payment methods to pay for parking.
D.
This chapter is intended to authorize the use of contactless payment
processes, including the use of signage, displayed information, digitally
scannable quick response (QR) codes, mobile phone applications or
other technology as an alternative to the placement of a physical
device to serve as a parking meter.
[Amended 10-22-1996 by Ord. No. 17-1996; 11-12-2002 by Ord. No.
24-2002; 11-12-2014 by Ord. No. 13-2014]
Parking meters and other technologies shall be conveniently
located upon the sidewalk or curb or within other designated areas
in general proximity to each designated parking space in such a manner
to notify a person paying such parking space by authorized means that
the space is legally paid or not. Each parking metered space that
is regulated shall indicate by a proper signage, marking or other
authorized means the established legal parking time and, when in operation,
shall also indicate the duration of the period of legal parking and
any illegal or overtime parking.
[Amended 11-12-2002 by Ord. No. 24-2002]
Every vehicle parked in any parking meter zone shall be entirely
within the lines of the designated parking space.
[Amended 11-12-2014 by Ord. No. 13-2014]
Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prohibit the City
or an authorized agent from providing free parking spaces for loading
and unloading, bus stops, taxicab stands, or other matters of a similar
nature.
[Ord. No. 41-1995; amended 10-14-2003 by Ord. No. 28-2003; 10-27-2009 by Ord. No. 13-2009; 4-9-2013 by Ord. No. 3-2013; 11-12-2014 by Ord. No. 13-2014]
A.
Any person who causes, allows, or permits any vehicle to be parked
overtime or beyond the period of legal parking time established for
any parking meter zone shall pay to the City or an authorized agent
an overtime parking charge in the amount of $30.
B.
There shall be a separate overtime parking charge of $30 for each
consecutive separate segment of legal parking time, which time shall
be the maximum amount of time allowable for parking in a particular
metered zone, for any parking zone during which any vehicle is caused,
allowed, or permitted to be parked in such parking meter zone. Failure
to pay such overtime parking charge within 96 hours after such violation
will result in a processing/penalty charge of $20, for a total overtime
parking charge of $50.
[Ord. No. 7-1978; amended 10-27-2009 by Ord. No. 14-2009; 11-12-2014 by Ord. No. 13-2014]
A.
Whenever any vehicle is caused, allowed or permitted by any person
to be parked in any parking meter zone for a longer time than is permitted,
any duly authorized employee of the City, under the direction of the
Mayor, Chief of Police or other authorized agent, shall notify such
person of the applicable overtime parking charge by placing a written
notice or ticket under the windshield wiper, or in some other conspicuous
place on such vehicle, indicating:
B.
All overtime parking charges, including any additional late charges,
shall be paid to the City or authorized agent no later than 10 days
after the date of the violation, and the notice or ticket placed on
the vehicle at the time of the violation shall advise the owner or
operator of such vehicle that, unless the overtime parking charge,
including any additional late charge, is paid within the time limits
herein specified, the fine payable upon conviction of overtime parking
and failure to pay such charges within the time set forth above will
be $50 and costs and, in default of payment thereof, imprisonment
for not more than 10 days.
[Ord. No. 11-1970]
In any proceeding for a violation of the provisions of this
chapter, the registration plate displayed on such vehicle shall be
prima facie evidence that the owner of such vehicle was then operating
the same. If at any hearing or proceeding the owner shall testify
under oath or affirmation that he or she was not operating such vehicle
at the time of the alleged violation of this chapter and shall submit
to an examination as to who at that time was operating such vehicle,
and reveal the name of the person, if known, then the prima facie
presumptive evidence arising from the registration plate shall be
overcome and removed and the burden of proof shifted.
[Ord. No. 40-1995; amended 6-25-2003 by Ord. No. 17-2003; 9-23-2003 by Ord. No.
27-2003; 4-9-2013 by Ord. No. 3-2013; 6-11-2013 by Ord. No.
9-2013; 9-16-2013 by Ord. No. 16-2013; 11-12-2014 by Ord. No. 13-2014]
In the area of the City bounded by Front Street on the west,
Chestnut Street on the south, Fisher Plaza on the east and Forster
Street on the north, rates shall be $3 per hour of parking. In all
other areas within the City of Harrisburg, the parking meter rates
shall be $1.50 per hour of parking. The bagged parking meter rate
shall not exceed the highest hourly meter rate multiplied by the hours
the meter is in operation for each day.
[Amended 11-12-2014 by Ord. No. 13-2014]
Upon entering a designated space in a parking meter zone, the
operator thereof shall immediately comply with the parking regulations
that are in effect and pay the applicable fees by any of the means
accepted, which may be legal tender of the United States, credit cards,
debit cards, smart cards or any other authorized means that are accepted
to pay for parking at that specific space. Upon the accepted payment
of the parking space, such parking space may be lawfully occupied
by any vehicle during the permitted period of parking indicated by
the parking meter or other technology.
[Amended 11-12-2014 by Ord. No. 13-2014]
The payments required to be deposited in parking meters are
hereby levied and assessed as fees to provide for the proper regulation
and control of traffic upon the highways, including the cost of supervising
and regulating the parking of vehicles in the parking meter zones
created hereby, and the cost of the purchase, supervision, protection,
inspection, operation, maintenance, control and use of the aforesaid
parking meters.
No owner or operator of any vehicle shall cause, allow, permit,
or suffer such vehicle to be parked overtime or beyond the period
of the legal parking time established for any parking meter zone.
[Amended 11-12-2014 by Ord. No. 13-2014]
No person shall pay or cause to be paid any additional parking
fees for any space regulated by a parking meter or other technologies
for the purpose of increasing or extending the parking time of any
vehicle beyond the legal parking time established for any parking
meter zone unless authorized by that particular space.
No person shall deposit or cause to be deposited in any parking
meter any slug, device or metallic substitute for the required legal
coin of the United States.
[Amended 10-27-2009 by Ord. No. 14-2009; 11-12-2014 by Ord. No. 13-2014; 9-28-2021 by Ord. No. 12-2021]
No person shall deface, injure, tamper with, open, remove or
willfully break, destroy or impair the usefulness any parking meter
equipment, signage or displayed information.
[Ord. No. 11-1970; amended
by Ord. No. 3-1992; 10-27-2009 by Ord. No. 14-2009; 4-9-2013 by Ord. No. 3-2013; 11-12-2014 by Ord.
No. 13-2014]
A.
No prosecution of any violation of any of the provisions of this
chapter may be instituted unless commenced by the filing of a complaint
within six months after the date of such alleged violation.
B.
Whenever a vehicle is caused, allowed or permitted to be parked in
a handicapped parking meter zone and said vehicle is not, by law or
ordinance, permitted to park in said handicapped parking meter zone,
said person shall pay to the City or authorized agent a parking charge
equal to $50. If said parking charge is not paid to the City or authorized
agent within 96 hours, an additional late charge of $20 shall be added.
