For the purpose of this ordinance, the following terms shall
have the meanings indicated:
OPERATOR
Includes every individual who shall operate a vehicle as
the owner thereof or as the agent, employee or permittee of the owner.
PARK, PARKING OR PARKED
The stopping of a motor vehicle or motorcycle upon any public
highway and leaving such motor vehicle or motorcycle attended or unattended
by a person capable of operating it for a period longer than necessary
to load or unload passengers or freight.
PERSON
Includes an individual, firm or copartnership.
STREET
Any public street, avenue, road, boulevard, highway, square
or other public place located in the Village of Malone and established
for the use of vehicles.
VEHICLE
Any device in, upon or by which any person or property is
or may be transported upon the highway, except a device which is operated
upon rails or tracks.
A. The following described streets or parts of streets are hereby established
as parking-meter zones:
(1) Both sides of Main Street, including East and West Main Street, except
the south side of East Main Street from the intersection of East Main
Street and Catherine Street to a point 73 feet west from the center
of said intersection.
[Amended 6-10-1963]
(2) The west side of Pearl Street.
[Amended 7-14-1959]
(3) East side of street on Harrison Place.
(4) East side of Howard Place.
(5) Both sides of Elm Street.
(6) West side of Duane Street from its intersection with Jane Street
(or Harrison Place) to its intersection with the southerly line of
the Malone Village Parking Lot on the corner of Jane Street (or Harrison
Place) and Duane Street; south side of Jane Street (or Harrison Place)
from its intersection with the west side of Duane Street to the driveway
at or near the south bounds of premises formerly assessed to James
E. and Nora Carroll, 54 Harrison Place.
[Amended 6-28-1954]
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And such other parking meter zones as may be hereafter created
by the ordinances of the Board of Trustees of the Village of Malone,
New York.
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The Board of Trustees of the Village of Malone shall cause to
be installed parking meters, and cause parking-meter spaces to be
designated in accordance with the provisions of this ordinance, or
any amendment thereto. Such parking meters shall be placed upon the
curb alongside of or next to individual parking spaces to be designated
as provided by such resolutions or ordinances and each of said parking
meters shall be so set as to show or display a signal that the parking
space alongside is or is not in use.
[Amended 4-14-1952]
The Board of Trustees of Malone Village shall provide for the
installation, regulation, control, operation and use of the parking
meters provided for in this ordinance and shall cause said meters
to be maintained in a good workable condition, and each meter shall
be so set as to display a signal showing legal parking periods not
in excess of 12 minutes for a fee of $0.01, and not in excess of two
hours for a fee of $0.10 in one-cent and five-cent coins of the United
States or Canada, parking time for the part of the street upon which
said meter is placed. Each meter shall by its device clearly set out
and continue in operation from the time of depositing of such coin
until the expiration of the time fixed by this ordinance as the parking
limit for the part of the street upon which said meter is placed.
Each set meter will be so arranged that upon the expiration of said
parking limit it will indicate by a mechanical operation and the display
of proper signal that the lawful period for parking, as fixed by the
Board of Trustees, has expired.
[Amended 4-14-1952]
It shall be unlawful and an offense for any person to deposit
or cause to be deposited in a parking meter a one-cent coin or a five-cent
coin for the purpose of extending the parking space alongside of or
next to which said parking meter is placed for a period longer than
two hours' continuous parking.
It shall be unlawful and an offense for any person to permit
a vehicle to remain or to be placed in any parking space alongside
of or next to which any parking meter is placed while said meter is
displaying a signal showing that such vehicle shall have been already
parked or occupying such space beyond the period of time fixed by
this ordinance for such parking space.
[Amended 2-23-1954, 6-28-1954]
It shall be unlawful and an offense for any person to permit a vehicle to remain or be placed in any parking space on the streets hereinbefore set forth in §
59-22, except on Sundays and holidays, longer than 120 minutes between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m., Mondays through and including Thursdays,
and from 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Fridays, and from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00
p.m. on Saturdays, the legal hours to be computed upon whatever hours
Malone Village is operating.
Notwithstanding the provisions of this Article, the same shall
not be effective from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. on all Fridays for a
period from July 9, 1954, through October 8, 1954, inclusive.
[Amended 4-14-1952]
When any vehicle shall be placed or parked in any space hereinbefore mentioned alongside of or next to which there is located under this ordinance a parking meter, the owner, operator, manager or driver of said vehicle shall, upon entering said parking space, immediately deposit one-cent or five-cent coins, not exceeding an aggregate of $0.10, of the United States or Canada, in the parking meter alongside of or next to said parking space, and said parking space may then be used by such vehicle for 12 minutes for each $0.01, and for one hour for each $0.05 deposited, within the parking limit as provided by this and §
59-27 hereof, for the part of the street in which said parking space is located. If said vehicle shall remain parked or placed in any such parking space beyond the parking limit fixed by this and §
59-27 for such parking space, the parking meter shall display a sign showing illegal parking, and in that event such vehicle shall be considered as parked overtime and beyond the limit fixed by this ordinance; and the parking of a vehicle or its occupancy of such parking space overtime or beyond the period of time now or hereafter fixed by ordinance in any such part of a street where any such meter is located shall be a violation of this ordinance and punished as hereinafter set forth. It shall be unlawful for any person to cause, allow, permit or suffer any such vehicle registered in his name to be parked or to occupy such parking space overtime or beyond the lawful period of time as above described.
A. It shall be the duty of each traffic patrolman, or such other officer
as shall be so instructed by the Chief of Police, in his beat or district
to take the number of any meter at which any vehicle is overparked
or has occupied the space overtime, as provided in this ordinance,
and the state vehicle tag number of such vehicle, and report the same
to the Police Department, together with the length of time during
which said vehicle has remained in violation of any of the provisions
of this ordinance, as well as any other facts, a knowledge of which
is necessary to a thorough understanding of the circumstances attending
such violation.
B. Each such police officer shall also attach to such a vehicle a notice
to the owner thereof that such vehicle has been parked or has remained
in such place in violation of a provision of this ordinance and instructing
such owner to report at the Police Court of the Village of Malone in regard to such violation. A penalty of $2 shall be paid by the owner of the vehicle to the Police Court of the Village of Malone within seven days from the notice of the violation of the Parking Meter Ordinance, and an additional penalty of $1 shall be added thereto for each week that the original penalty remains unpaid for a maximum period of 10 weeks, after which the owner of said vehicle shall be subject to the penalties provided for in §
59-35 of this ordinance.
[Amended 4-18-1963; 7-10-1972]
Any vehicle parked or placed in any parking space in any parking
meter zone shall be parked or placed with the hood of such vehicle
alongside or next to the parking meter alongside of such parking space
in parallel parking spaces, and with the radiator directed at the
said meter in diagonal parking spaces, and in either event shall be
parked within the lines marked on the street for such parking purposes
as hereinafter provided.
The Board of Trustees, or such officers or employees of the
Village of Malone as it shall select, shall place lines or marks on
the curb or in the street about or alongside of such parking meter,
to designate the parking space for which said meter is to be used,
and each vehicle parked or placed alongside of or next to any parking
meter shall be parked or placed within the lines or marks so established.
It shall be unlawful and an offense to park or place any vehicle across
any such line or mark or to park or place said vehicle in such a way
that the same shall not be within the area so designated by such lines
or marks.
It shall be unlawful and an offense to deposit or cause to be
deposited in any parking meter any slug, device or metallic substitute
for a one-cent or five-cent coin of the United States or Canada.
It shall be unlawful and an offense for any person to deface,
injure, tamper with or open or wilfully break, destroy or impair the
usefulness of any parking meter installed under this ordinance.
The one-cent and five-cent coins required to be deposited in
parking meters, as provided herein, are hereby levied and assessed
as fees to be provided for the proper regulation and control of vehicles
upon the public streets and to cover the cost of the supervision,
inspection, installation, operation, maintenance, control and use
of the parking spaces and the regulating of the parking of vehicles
in the parking-meter zones hereby created, and are to be deposited
with the general funds of the Village of Malone.
Every person who violates or fails to comply with any of the
provisions of this ordinance shall be punished by a fine or penalty
of not exceeding $50.
If any section, part of section, sentence, clause or phrase
of this ordinance shall be held to be unconstitutional or invalid,
the remaining provisions hereof shall nevertheless remain in full
force and effect.
This ordinance is hereby declared to be for the preservation
of peace, health, safety and property, and a police regulation therefor.
It is declared to be in addition to and supplementary to existing
ordinances of the village and an additional provision for the regulation
of traffic and parking in those zones provided for herein, and not
in conflict with nor a repeal of existing ordinances excepting only
any and all parts of existing ordinances relating to traffic which
are contrary to the provisions of this ordinance in its present form
and hereby repealed and declared void.
This ordinance shall take effect on and after its passage.