For the purposes of this article, the following words and phrases
shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section:
Includes any mechanical device or meter not inconsistent
with this article placed or erected for the regulation of parking
by authority of this article. Each parking meter installed shall indicate
by proper legend the legal parking time established by the City and,
when operated, shall at all times indicate the balance of legal parking
time, and at the expiration of such period shall indicate illegal
or overtime parking.
Any space within a parking meter zone, adjacent to a parking
meter, and which is duly designated for the parking of a single vehicle
by lines painted or otherwise durably marked on the surface of the
street adjacent to or adjoining the parking meters.
Includes that part of any street upon which the parking of
vehicles is permitted for limited periods of times subject to regulations
established by the City and upon which parking meters are installed
and in operation.
The standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, upon
a street otherwise than temporarily for the purpose of, and while
actually engaged in, receiving or discharging passengers or loading,
unloading and delivering merchandise, or in obedience to traffic regulations,
signs or signals or an involuntary stopping of the vehicle by reason
of causes beyond the control of the vehicle operator.
The entire width between property lines of any public street,
avenue, road, alley, highway, lane, path or other public place located
in the City and established for the use of vehicles.
Any device in, upon or by which any person or property is
or may be transported upon a highway, except a device which is operated
upon rails or tracks, or motivated by human power.
In accordance with this article, parking meter zones are established in the following streets or parts of streets. All frontages in such squares, streets or avenues defining such zones shall be included except those restricted to parking by specific order or as defined under § 385-19.
A.
Both sides of the following streets for their entire length:
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Alderman Street
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Auburn Street
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Barnes Street
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Beaumont Street
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Beaumont Terrace
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Berendo Street
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Bliss Street
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Bond Street
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Boylston Street
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Bradford Street
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Bridge Street
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Broadway
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Burlington Street
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Cliftwood Street
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Clinton Street
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Congress Street
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Continental Street
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Court Square Avenue
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Court Street
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Crossett Street
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Cross Street
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Cypress Street
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East Court Street
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Edwards Street
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Elliot Street
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Elm Street
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Emery Street
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Essex Street
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Fairbanks Place
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Ferry Street
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Fort Street
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Grays Avenue
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Greenwood Street
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Grenada Terrace
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Hampden Street
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Harrison Avenue
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Hillman Street
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Holyoke Street
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Howard Street
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Kaynor Street
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Lenox Street
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Lyman Street
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Market Street
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Mattoon Street
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New Dwight Street
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New Street
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Ormond Street
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Park Street
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Patton Street
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Pearl Street Court
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Pomona Street
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Pynchon Street
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Railroad Street
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Salem Street
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Sanford Street
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Sargeant Street
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Seventh Street
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Sharon Street
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Sorrento Street
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Stearns Square
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Stockbridge Street
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Temple Street
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Tenth Street
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Trenton Street
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Ventura Street
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Vernon Street
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Vine Street
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Walden Street
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Willow Street
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Winter Street
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B.
Both sides of the following streets for the areas indicated:
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Location
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Belmont Avenue
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From Beaumont Street to Walden Street
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Carew Street
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From Main Street to Chestnut Street
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Chestnut Street
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From Carew Street to State Street
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Columbus Avenue
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From Cypress Street to Main Street
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Commonwealth Avenue
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From Belmont Avenue to Walden Street
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Dickinson Street
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From Beaumont Street to Walden Street
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Dwight Street
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From State Street to Jefferson Avenue
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Franklin Street
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From Main Street to Chestnut Street
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High Street
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From Maple Street to School Street
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Liberty Street
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From Main Street to Chestnut Street
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Locust Street
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From Main Street to Mill Street
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Lyman Street
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From Main Street to Chestnut Street
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Main Street
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From Bliss Street to Mill Street
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Main Street
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From Liberty Street to Chicopee Line
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Maple Street
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From State Street to Union Street
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Pearl Street
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From Chestnut Street to Spring Street
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Plainfield Street
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From Sargeant Street to Bradford Street
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Rutland Street
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From State Street to Wilbraham Road
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School Street
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From State Street to Union Street
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Spring Street
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From Taylor Street to State Street
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State Street
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From Columbus Avenue to Benton Street
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Sumner Avenue
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From Continental Street to Pomona Street
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Sumner Avenue
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From Converse Street to East Alvord Street
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Taylor Street
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From Main Street to Spring Street
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Union Street
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From Columbus Avenue to School Street
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White Street
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From Kimberly Avenue to Priscilla Street
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Wilbraham Road
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From Eastern Avenue to Rutland Street
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Worthington Street
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From Columbus Avenue to Spring Street
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A.
In parking meter zones the traffic commission shall cause parking meters to be purchased and installed upon the curb or sidewalk immediately adjacent to the parking spaces provided in § 385-12.
B.
The Division of Traffic Engineering of the Department of Public Works
shall be responsible for the control, operation, maintenance and use
of such parking meters.
C.
Each meter shall be installed not less than 12 inches or more than 24 inches from the face of the curb. Each device shall be so set as to display a signal showing legal parking upon the deposit of the appropriate coin or coins, lawful money of the United States of America, for the period of time prescribed by § 385-16.
D.
Each device shall be so arranged that upon the expiration of the lawful time limit it will indicate by a proper visible signal that the lawful parking period has expired, and in such cases the right of such vehicle to occupy such space shall cease and the operator, owner, possessor or manager thereof shall be subject to the penalties provided in § 385-22.
A.
The Division of Traffic Engineering of the Department of Public Works is directed and authorized to mark off individual parking spaces in the parking zones designated and described in § 385-12 when and where ordered by the Traffic Commission and in such other zones as may hereafter be established, such parking spaces to be designated by lines painted or durably marked on the surface of the street.
B.
At each space so marked off, it is unlawful to park any vehicle in
such a way that such vehicle shall not be entirely within the limits
of the space so designated, except such vehicles whose length, width
or load overlap the length or width of such lines or marks.
A.
Parking meters shall be operated in the parking meter zones established in § 385-12 every day between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m., unless otherwise specified by the City Council and indicated on such meters.
B.
Such parking meters shall not be operated on Sundays or during the
hours of legal holidays during which certain retail stores are required
by law to remain closed under the provisions of the general statutes
regulating the observance of the Lord's Day.
[Amended 6-14-1988]
A.
During the hours that parking time limit restrictions are in effect,
the fee to be deposited in a parking meter adjacent to a parking meter
space shall be as follows:
(1)
In those zones restricted to a maximum of 30 minutes of parking,
one quarter ($0.25) for 30 minutes of parking.
(2)
In those zones restricted to a maximum of 60 minutes of parking,
two quarters ($0.50) for 60 minutes of parking, or one quarter ($0.25)
for 30 minutes of parking.
(3)
In those zones restricted to a maximum of two hours of parking, four
quarters ($1) for two hours, or two quarters ($0.50) for one hour.
B.
The number of minutes for which continuous parking by one vehicle
will be permitted in any zone shall be set by order of the City Council.
A.
When any vehicle is parked in any parking space alongside or next
to which a parking meter is located, the operator of such vehicle
shall, upon entering such parking meter space, immediately deposit
or cause to be deposited in such meter such proper coin of the United
States as is required for such parking meter and as is designated
by proper directions on the meter; and when required by the directions
on the meter, the operator of such vehicle, after the deposit of the
proper coin or coins, shall also set in operation the timing mechanism
on such meter in accordance with directions properly appearing thereon.
B.
Except as otherwise provided in this article, it shall constitute
a violation of this article to permit a vehicle to occupy a designated
parking meter space during the period which has been prescribed for
that part of the street in which such parking space is located unless
forthwith after such parking the proper coin shall be deposited and
the timing mechanism shall be set in operation.
C.
It is further provided that any person placing a vehicle in a parking
meter space adjacent to a meter which indicates that unused time has
been left in the meter by the previous occupant of the space shall
not be required to deposit a coin so long as his occupancy of such
space does not exceed the indicated unused parking time. If such vehicle
remains parked in any such parking space beyond the parking time limit
set for such parking space, and if the meter shall indicate such illegal
parking, then, and in that event, such vehicle shall be considered
as parking overtime and beyond the period of legal parking time, and
such parking shall be deemed a violation of this article.
Nothing in this article shall be construed as prohibiting the
City from providing for bus stops, taxicab stands and other matters
of similar nature, including the loading or unloading of trucks, vans,
or other commercial vehicles.
The Police Department shall be responsible for the collection of moneys deposited in parking meters, which duty or function may be awarded by contract by the Chief Procurement Officer to an independent bonded contractor in accordance with General Laws Chapter 43, and with Chapter 82, Purchasing and Contracts, Articles I, II and III, if the Mayor, in his discretion, deems it to be for the best interest of the City.
No person shall park a vehicle contrary to the provisions of
this article nor shall any person cause, allow, permit or suffer any
vehicle registered in his name to violate any of the following provisions:
A.
To be parked overtime, or beyond the period of legal parking time
established for any parking meter zone as described in this article,
or to deposit in any parking meter any coin for the purpose of parking
beyond the maximum legal parking time for the particular parking meter
zone.
B.
To permit any vehicle to remain in any parking space adjacent to
any parking meter while such meter is displaying a signal indicating
that the vehicle occupying such parking space has already been parked
beyond the period prescribed for such parking space.
C.
To park any vehicle across any line or marking of a parking meter
space or in such position that the vehicle shall not be entirely within
the area designated by such lines or markings, except such vehicles
whose length, width or load overlaps the width or length of such lines
or marks.
D.
To deface, injure, tamper with, open or willfully break, destroy,
or impair the usefulness of any parking meter installed under the
provisions of this article, except that a person may open such parking
meter when authorized to do so by the Director of Public Works.
E.
To deposit or cause to be deposited in any parking meter any slugs,
device or metal substance, or other substitute for lawful coin.
