This article is adopted for the purpose of promoting safe and
orderly parking of motor vehicles within areas designated and established
by the Township as commuter parking lots. All areas so designated
as commuter parking lots within the Township are included under this
article, except for the Franklin Lane-New Jersey Transit Park-and-Ride
facility, which is regulated by a separate article in this chapter.
The provisions, rules and regulations of this article pertaining
to commuter parking areas are applicable to all those parcels of land
and premises owned, leased, occupied or controlled by the Township
of Manalapan, now or hereafter, except for any lands or areas within
the right-of-way of any street, road or highway and do not apply to
the Franklin Lane-New Jersey Transit Park-and-Ride facility, which
is regulated by a separate article under this chapter.
Any person parking a motor vehicle with such permit affixed
thereto shall be presumed to have properly applied for and received
permission to park said motor vehicle in any such parking area of
the Township of Manalapan.
No person shall permit a disabled vehicle to remain in any commuter
parking area for more than 36 hours without the express permission
of the police.
Any vehicle parked in any such parking area in violation of this article may be removed from the parking area on order of any police officer, and the owner thereof shall pay the reasonable cost of such removal and storage which may result from such removal before being allowed to regain possession of the vehicle, and such costs of removal and storage shall be in addition to any penalty or fine hereinbefore provided in Chapter
216, Towing.
This article shall not apply to any municipal vehicles registered
to the Township of Manalapan.