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State law reference—Power of city relative to parking
meters, Vehicle and Traffic Law § 1640(a)(9).
[Code 1971, § 28-123; Res. No. 55-92, 4-14-1992;
Res. No. 88-02, 8-13-2002; Res. No. 30-11, 5-24-2011; Res. No. 73-13,
9-10-2013; 12-10-2013 by Res. No. 96-2013; 12-10-2013 by Res. No.
97-13; amended 8-23-2011 by Res. No. 59-11; 9-13-2011 by Res. No.
64-11; 4-28-2015 by Res. No. 30-15; 8-25-2015 by Res. No. 73-15; 9-27-2016
by Res. No. 75-16; 12-13-2016 by Res. No. 98-16]
Parking meters shall be installed, operated, maintained, policed,
and supervised on the streets or parts of streets, and municipally
owned parking areas described below:
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Hamilton Street. South side from Union Street to North Barry
Street.
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Olean Municipal Building Parking Lot.
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Times Square. North and South sides from Union Street to Barry
Street.
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Union Street, North. Both sides from Sullivan Street North to
Main Street.
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Union Street, North. East and West sides from State Street to
Coleman Street.
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Union Street, South. East side from South Street to East Henley
Street, except there not be placed a parking meter in front of any
lot currently occupied solely as a residence.
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[Code 1971, § 28-124; Res. No. 88-02, 8-13-2002;
Res. No. 62-05, 7-12-2005; Res. No. 70-06, 6-13-2006; Res. No. 62-07,
8-28-2007]
(a)
Parking meters shall be so devised and regulated as to provide for
parking periods not in excess of three hours for $0.25 per 30 minutes
in parking meter zones lying outside and exclusive of the following
zones:
(b)
All parking meters, except such meters as may be established by other
provisions of law, lying in:
(1)
That parking meter zone commencing at the intersection of North
Union Street and Coleman Street and extending south to the intersection
of North Union Street and State Street; and
(2)
(Reserved)
(3)
That zone commencing at the intersection of South Street and
South Union Street and extending east on the south side of the street
to the intersection of South Barry Street and South Street:
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Shall be operated by the insertion of one or more $0.10 coins
for 20 minutes, or a $0.25 coin for one hour.
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(c)
Until such time as meters shall be modified so as to implement the
foregoing, currently metered fees shall be enforceable.
(d)
The common council hereby authorizes placement of short-term meters
throughout the city. Such short-term meters shall be for parking period
as described below:
(e)
All parking meters, except such meters as may be established by other
provisions of law lying in:
(1)
That zone commencing at the intersection of Whitney Avenue and
First Street and extending east to the intersection of Whitney Avenue
and North Union Street:
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Shall be so devised and regulated as to provided for parking
periods not in excess of five hours for $0.25 per hour.
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(f)
All parking meters in the following zones, except such meters as
may be established by other provisions of law, shall be so devised
and regulated as to provide parking periods not in excess of eight
hours by the insertion of one or more $0.05 coins for 10 minutes,
$0.10 coins for 20 minutes, or $0.25 coins for one hour:
(1)
That zone commencing at the intersection of North Union Street
and Whitney Avenue extending 520.6 feet southerly on the east side
of North Union Street.
[Code 1971, § 28-125]
The director of the department of public works shall designate
by appropriate markings parking meter spaces as determined by the
common council.
[Code 1971, § 28-126]
Any vehicle parked in any parking meter space established by
this division shall be parked with the front bumper of such vehicle
alongside of or in line with the parking meter adjacent to such parking
meter space, or parallel space, or as otherwise indicated between
parallel lines. It shall be unlawful for any person to park any vehicle
across any line or marking designating the parking meter space, or
to park any vehicle in such a way that such vehicle shall not be wholly
within a parking space, as designated by such lines or markings.
[Code 1971, § 28-127; Res. No. 88-02, 8-13-2002]
(a)
In order that the police officers may properly compute the time during
which a vehicle is parked in any parking meter space established by
this division, the owner or operator of such vehicle shall, upon entering
such parking space during the time of limited parking, immediately
deposit one $0.05 coin or one or more $0.10 coins or one or more $0.25
coins of the United States in the parking meter situated at the parking
space and shall set in operation the meter erected adjacent to the
space in which his car is parked.
(b)
Five cents, 0.10 or $0.25 coins of the United States shall be the
only coins used to operate the parking meters.
[Code 1971, § 28-127.1]
It shall be unlawful to be parked at a meter for which time
has expired. The passage of an interval in excess of one hour since
the issuance of a prior notice and citation shall constitute a separate
offense for which additional notice and citation may be made. In the
enforcement of this provision, no more than three separate notices
and citations in a twenty-four-hour period shall be made upon any
vehicle continuously parked at the same metered location.
[Code 1971, § 28-128; Res. No. 88-02, 8-13-2002]
(a)
Between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. daily, except Sundays,
it shall be unlawful for any person to park a motor vehicle for a
period longer than the time period fixed by this division and governed
by a parking meter. Such restrictions shall not apply to New Year's
Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day,
and Christmas Day, and if any such days are on Sunday, the next day
thereafter.
(b)
It shall be unlawful for any person to permit a vehicle to remain
in any parking meter space when such meter is displaying a signal
showing that such vehicle shall have been parked beyond the period
of time fixed by this division. It shall be unlawful for any person
to cause, allow, permit, or suffer any vehicle registered in his name
to be parked overtime or beyond the lawful period of time described
in this division.
(c)
It shall be unlawful for any car to be parked in any parking meter
space for a period in excess of 12 minutes for each $0.01 deposited
or one hour for a $0.05 coin in those parking meter zones located
outside of the area embraced from the east side of North Union Street
from the Pennsylvania Railroad to the East State Street intersection
and the west of North Union Street from the Pennsylvania Railroad
to the West State Street intersection. Where the meter adjacent to
such space indicates that the space has been occupied for a period
in excess of 12 minutes for each $0.01 deposited or one hour for a
$0.05 coin, it shall be presumed that this regulation has been violated.
In that parking meter zone located from the east side of North Union
Street from the Pennsylvania Railroad to the East State Street intersection
and from the west side of North Union Street from the Pennsylvania
Railroad to the West State Street intersection, it shall be unlawful
for any car to be parked in any parking meter space for a period in
excess of 30 minutes for each $0.05 coin deposited, and where the
meter adjacent to such space indicates that the space has been occupied
for a period in excess of one-half hour for each $0.05 coin deposited,
it shall be presumed that this regulation has been violated. It is
further presumed that the owner or operator of any vehicle occupying
a space adjacent to a parking meter in which 12 minutes or a multiple
thereof or one-half hour's time or one full hour's time, as the case
may be, has run as indicated on the meter, is guilty of a violation
of this section.
(d)
Nothing in this division shall prevent the owner or operator of a
vehicle from parking his vehicle in a space without depositing a coin,
as provided in this division, where it appears that 12 minutes, a
multiple thereof, or one to five full hours' time has not run since
the deposit of a previous coin.
[Code 1971, § 28-129]
It shall be unlawful for any person to deposit or cause to be
deposited in any parking meter installed pursuant to this division
any slug, device, or substitute for a coin of the United States.
[Code 1971, § 28-130]
It shall be unlawful for any unauthorized person to deface,
injure, tamper with, open, break, destroy, or impair a parking meter
installed pursuant to this division.
[Code 1971, § 28-131]
Commercial vehicles using a parking meter space established
by this division and not engaged in either loading or unloading freight
or passengers shall comply with all the provisions of this division.
[Code 1971, § 28-133]
The moneys collected from the parking meters installed pursuant
to this division are to be deposited by the city clerk in a parking
meter fund, which may be disbursed on order of the common council.
[Code 1971, § 28-134]
The parking meter bag fees charged by the city to contractors
and persons showing special circumstances shall be: $5 per day with
a returnable $15 deposit.
[Code 1971, § 28-135]
It shall be the duty of each traffic patrolman or such other
officer as shall be instructed by the chief of police, in his beat
or district, to take the number of any meter at which any vehicle
is overparked, as provided in this division. Such officer shall also
take the state vehicle tag number of such vehicle and report such
number to the police department, together with the length of time
during which such vehicle is parked in violation of any of the provisions
of this division, as well as any other facts, a knowledge of which
is necessary to a thorough understanding of the circumstances attending
such violation.
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Editor's Note: Res. No. 50-93, adopted May 25, 1993, repealed
§ 24-204, which pertained to notice to be attached to vehicle.
See the Code Comparative Table.
[Res. No. 99-92, § 28-137, 6-9-1992]
In addition to any other penalty as may be provided by law, the penalty as provided by section 24-204 shall be increased until paid in accordance with the following schedule:
