[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council of the Borough of
Masontown: Art. II, 6-8-1976 by Ord. No. 257, approved 6-8-1976. Sections 133-4,
133-6, 133-12 and 133-13 amended at time of adoption of Code; see
Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I. Other amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Impounding of vehicles — See Ch. 136.
[Rules and regulations governing vehicles and traffic are
enforced as set forth in Title 75, Vehicles, of the Pennsylvania Statutes.]
[Adopted 6-8-1976 by Ord. No. 257, approved 6-8-1976]
This Article shall be known and may be cited as the "Parking
Meter Ordinance of the Borough of Masontown."
The terms used herein shall have the following meanings:
The time which a vehicle may legally park in a parking meter
zone, as established by ordinance or resolution, and indicated on
the parking meter.
A device intended to assist the borough authorities in enforcing
the provisions of this Article and limiting the time during which
vehicles may be parked within a parking meter zone.
Streets or portions of streets, not including locations where
fireplugs have been installed nor such spaces as have been designated
as bus spaces, entrances to churches or other places where parking
has been prohibited, and parking lots.
Every natural person, firm, partnership, association or corporation.
A conveyance of any character for the transportation of persons
or property.
It shall be unlawful for any person to park a vehicle between
the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. on any day, except Sunday, New
Years Day, Memorial Day, the Fourth of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving
and Christmas, for more than the legal parking time upon the streets
or parts of streets or parking lots which are established as parking
meter zones.
[Amended 6-9-1987 by Ord. No. 1987-1, approved 6-9-1987]
Additional parking meter zones may be established from time
to time by ordinance or resolution of the Borough Council and existing
zones or additional zones hereafter established may be changed by
ordinance or resolution.
In all parking meter zones, one parking meter shall be installed
for each parking space. All spaces shall be plainly designated by
lines or markings on the paving and may be either parallel or diagonal
to the curb. Parking meters shall be placed upon the sidewalk or curb,
if any, immediately adjacent to each designated parking space and
in such manner as to show by a signal that the parking space controlled
by the meter is or is not legally occupied. Each meter shall indicate
the legal parking time and, when in operation, shall also indicate
by its dial the duration of the period of legal parking.
[Amended 6-9-1987 by Ord. No. 1987-1, approved 6-9-1987]
Every vehicle parked in any parking meter zone shall be entirely
within the lines of the designated parking space.
When any vehicle shall be parked in any space adjacent to which
a parking meter is located, the operator shall, upon entering the
space, immediately deposit in such meter one or more coins of the
United States, as indicated on the meter, and shall operate the meter
in accordance with the instructions thereon. Failure to do so shall
constitute a violation of this Article.
If any vehicle shall remain parked in any parking space for
such length of time that the meter shall indicate by a proper signal
that the legal parking time has expired, such vehicle shall be considered
as parking overtime, and the parking of a vehicle overtime shall constitute
a violation of this Article.
A.
It shall be unlawful for any person to deposit in a parking meter
any coin for the purpose of increasing or extending the parking time
of any vehicle beyond the legal parking time.
B.
It shall be unlawful for any person to deface, injure, tamper with
or willfully break, destroy or impair the usefulness of any parking
meter or to deposit in any meter any slug, device or metallic substitute
for a coin of the United States.
[Amended 11-9-1976, approved 11-9-1976; 4-11-1989, approved 4-12-1989]
A.
It shall be the duty of police officers or any duly appointed and
authorized meter attendant of the borough to report, by special traffic
violation tickets numbered consecutively, the following information
for each violation reported by him:
(1)
The number and location of each parking meter which indicates that
the vehicle occupying the space adjacent to such meter has been parked
in violation of any of the provisions of this Article.
(2)
The date and hour of the violation.
(3)
The state and license number of the vehicle.
(4)
Any other fact or knowledge which is necessary or desirable to a
thorough understanding of the circumstances attending the violation.
B.
Each such police officer or duly appointed and authorized meter attendant
shall also place on such vehicle a notice to the owner thereof that
such vehicle has been placed in violation of the provisions of this
article.
C.
Whoever violates any provision of this article that applies to parking
meter violations shall pay a fine of $1 if paid on the same day that
notice of the violation was attached to the vehicle by placing the
fine in the ticket envelope and depositing it in the drop collection
box outside the Municipal Building office located at 2 Court Avenue.
D.
Whoever fails to pay the fine prescribed on the date of violation
shall be fined $5, if paid within five days of the date of violation.
After said fifth day, the violator shall pay a fine of $15.
[Amended 3-14-2000, approved 3-14-2000]
E.
Upon failure to comply with the notice of violation, the owner shall
be subject to the penalties hereinafter provided for violation of
the provision of this article.
Nothing herein shall be construed as preventing the borough
from providing for free parking space for loading and unloading purposes,
bus stops, taxicab stands and other matters of similar nature. Commercial
vehicles actively engaged in loading and unloading in a parking meter
zone shall be exempt from the provisions of this article.
[Amended 6-9-1987 by Ord. No. 1987-1, approved 6-9-1987]
The coins required to be deposited in parking meters as provided
herein are hereby levied and assessed as fees to provide for the proper
regulation and control of traffic upon the streets, including the
cost of supervising and regulating the parking of vehicles in the
parking meter zones created hereby and the cost of the purchase, installation,
supervision, protection, inspection, operation, maintenance, control
and use of the parking meters. The coins deposited in parking meters
shall be collected and accounted for under the direction of the Council
and deposited in the general borough account.
[Amended 6-9-1987 by Ord. No. 1987-1, approved 6-9-1987]
Any person who shall violate any provision of this article shall,
upon conviction thereof, be punishable by a fine of not more than
$300 and costs of such proceedings or, upon default of payment of
such fine and costs, by imprisonment in the county jail for a term
of not more than 30 days; provided, however, that if the District
Justice determines that the defendant is without the financial means
to pay the fines and costs immediately or in a single remittance,
such defendant shall be permitted to pay the fines or costs in installments
and over such periods of time as the District Justice deems to be
just.
