[Amended 9-16-1996 by Ord. No. 653]
Parking meter zones are hereby established upon and along certain highways in the Borough of Girard as follows:
Highway
Side
Between
(Reserved)
It shall be unlawful for any person to park a vehicle or to allow the same to remain parked for longer than three hours at any time between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m., Monday through Thursday and Saturday, and at any time between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m., Friday, upon any of the portions of streets herein established as parking meter zones, provided the requirements of this article as to parking time limit and as to deposit of coins in parking meters shall not apply on legal holidays or other periods of time as may be established by Council.
Parking meters installed in the parking meter zones established as provided in § 400-37 of this article shall be placed upon the sidewalk and immediately adjacent to the individual parking spaces hereinafter described. Each parking meter shall be placed or set in such manner as to show that the parking space adjacent to such meter is or is not legally occupied. Each parking meter installed shall indicate by a proper legend the legal parking time established by the Borough and, when occupied, shall indicate on and by its dial and pointer the duration of the period of legal parking and, on the expiration of such period, shall indicate illegal or overtime parking.
Lines and/or markings shall be painted or placed upon the curb, sidewalk and/or highway adjacent to each parking meter for the purpose of designating the parking space for which such meter is to be used. Each vehicle parked adjacent to any parking meter shall be parked wholly within the lines or markings so placed and applicable to such meter. It shall be unlawful and a violation of this article to park any vehicle across any such line or marking or to park any vehicle in such a position that such vehicle shall not be wholly within the area so designated by such lines or markings.
[Amended 8-17-1992 by Ord. No. 611]
When a parking space in any parking meter zone is parallel with the adjacent curb or sidewalk, any vehicle parked in such parking space shall be parked so that the foremost part of such vehicle shall be nearest to the parking meter; when a parking space in any parking meter zone is diagonal to the curb or sidewalk, any vehicle parked in such parking space shall be parked with the foremost part of such vehicle nearest to such meter. No trucks, passenger vans or commercial vehicles are permitted to park in any designated parking meter zone.
Whenever any vehicle is to be parked in any space adjacent to which a parking meter shall have been placed at any time during the period of limited parking as herein prescribed, the operator of such vehicle shall, upon entering such parking space, immediately deposit coins of the United States as shall be specified in the legend upon such parking meter. Upon the deposit of such coin or coins, and placing the meter in operation, such parking space may be lawfully occupied by such vehicle. If any vehicle shall remain in any such parking space for such length of time that the meter shall indicate by a proper signal that the lawful parking time shall have expired, such vehicle shall be considered as having been parked overtime, and the parking of a vehicle overtime shall be a violation of this article.
It shall be unlawful and a violation of this article for any person to permit a vehicle to remain in any parking space adjacent to a parking meter when such meter shall display a signal indicating that such vehicle shall already have been parked beyond the period of time prescribed for such parking space.
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 that nothing herein shall apply to the servicing or opening of parking meters by officers, employees and/or peace officers of the Borough under the direction of the Mayor and/or the Borough Council.
[Amended 8-17-1992 by Ord. No. 611]
A. 
It shall be the duty of the peace officers of the Borough, acting in accordance with instructions of the Chief of Police, to report:
(1) 
The number of each parking meter that indicates that the vehicle occupying the parking space adjacent thereto is, or has been, parked in violation of any of the provisions of this article;
(2) 
The date and hour of such violation;
(3) 
The state license number of such vehicle;
(4) 
Any other facts, the knowledge of which shall be necessary for a thorough understanding of the circumstances attending such violation.
B. 
Every such peace officer shall also place upon such vehicle a notice to the owner or operator thereof that such vehicle was parked in violation of the provisions of this article and instructing such owner or operator that if he shall report to the office of the Chief of Police and pay, for the use of the Borough, the sum of $3 within 48 hours after the time of such notice, or if he shall place such sum of $3, enclosed within the envelope provided, in any of the special parking fine boxes installed at various locations within the Borough within such time limit, the same shall save such violator from prosecution and from payment of the fine and costs hereinafter provided in this article.
[Amended 8-17-1992 by Ord. No. 611]
A. 
Any person who shall violate any provision of this article, except for § 400-45 hereof, shall, for each and every such violation, upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than $5 nor more than $10, and costs of prosecution, and, in default of payment of such fine and costs, to undergo imprisonment for not more than five days.
B. 
Any person who shall violate any provision of § 400-45 of this article shall, for each and every such violation, upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than $50, and costs of prosecution, and, in default of payment of such fine and costs, to undergo imprisonment for not more than 10 days.