[Ord. 2004-07, 12/7/2004, § 1]
The following are established as the metered parking lots established
by this Township:
Lot
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Location
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Rate
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Maximum Parking Time
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Days in Operation
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Hours in Operation
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(Reserved)
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[Ord. 2004-07, 12/7/2004, § 1]
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 §
15-601 of this Part 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 over-parking.
[Ord. 2004-07, 12/7/2004, § 1]
The Board of Supervisors, 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 Part 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.
[Ord. 2004-07, 12/7/2004, § 1]
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 Part for
any person to 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.
C. Elsewhere in any such lot that in an individual parking space adjacent
to a parking meter.
[Ord. 2004-07, 12/7/2004, § 1]
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; or
B. With any part of the vehicle touching the meter post or head or the
raised base or barrier on which meters are erected.
[Ord. 2004-07, 12/7/2004, § 1]
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 Part; provided, every hour that a vehicle remains
parked at a meter showing a violation shall constitute a separate
violation of this Part.
[Ord. 2004-07, 12/7/2004, § 1]
It shall be unlawful for any person to deposit in any parking
meter installed under the provisions of this Part any slug or other
substitute for a coin of the United States of America.
[Ord. 2004-07, 12/7/2004, § 1]
It shall be unlawful, and a violation of this Part, for any
person to permit a vehicle to remain in a parking space adjacent to
a parking meter installed under this Part, 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.
[Ord. 2004-07, 12/7/2004, § 1]
It shall be unlawful, and a violation of this Part, 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 Part; provided, nothing in this section shall apply to the
servicing or opening of parking meters by officers, employees or police
officers of the Township under the direction of the Plumstead Township
Chief of Police or Board of Supervisors.
[Ord. 2004-07, 12/7/2004, § 1]
The metered parking lots established by this Part 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.
[Ord. 2004-07, 12/7/2004, § 1]
1. It shall be the duty of the police officers and parking enforcement
personnel of the Township, acting in accordance with the direction
of the Chief of Police, to report:
A. The number of each parking meter that indicates that a vehicle occupying
the adjacent parking space is, or has been, parked in violation of
any provision of this Part.
B. The date and hour of the violation.
C. The license number of the vehicle.
D. Any other facts, the knowledge of which is necessary for a thorough
understanding of the circumstances attending the violation.
2. The police officer or other person making the report shall also place
on or attach to the vehicle a notice to the owner or driver of the
vehicle that the vehicle was parked in violation of this Part, and
instructing the owner or driver that if he will report to the office
of the Chief of Police and pay, for the use of the Township, a fine
of not more than $50 within 48 hours after the time of the notice,
or will place a sum in the amount of the fine enclosed within the
envelope; provided, in any of the special parking fine boxes installed
at various locations within the Township, within that time limit,
that act will save the violator from prosecution and from payment
of the fine prescribed in § 612(1) of this Part.
[Amended by A.O.]
[Ord. 2004-07, 12/7/2004, § 1; as amended by A.O.]
1. Any person who violates any provision of this Part, with the exception of §
15-609, and who fails to pay the fine set forth in §
15-611, shall be cited within 15 days of the violation and, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than $50 and costs.
2. Any person who violates any provision of §
15-609 of this Part shall, upon conviction in a summary proceeding brought before a Magisterial District Judge under the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure, be guilty of a summary offense and shall be punishable by a fine of not more than $1,000, plus costs of prosecution. In default of payment thereof, the defendant may be sentenced to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 90 days. Each day or portion thereof that such violation continues or is permitted to continue shall constitute a separate offense, and each section of this Part that is violated shall also constitute a separate offense.