[Amended 8-28-1997 by Ord. No. 1083; 9-18-2003 by Ord. No. 1114; 5-6-2004 by Ord. No. 1120]
Parking meter zones are established upon and along certain streets
in the Borough of Northampton, as follows:
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Street
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Side
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Location
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Weekday Times
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Main Street
[Amended 9-2-2010 by Ord. No. 1175] |
Both
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Eighteenth Street and Twenty-First Street
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9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
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Main Street
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East
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Ninth Street and Tenth Street
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9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
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Main Street
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West
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Bridge Street and Tenth Street
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9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
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[Added 8-18-2005 by Ord. No. 1131]
A.
The owner or operator of a retail business which has no on-premises
parking and which is not within 300 feet of municipal parking may
pay a nonrefundable fee to the Borough of Northampton in the amount
of $400 for a parking permit, which shall expire one year from the
date of issuance. Said parking permit shall be issued to allow the
owner or operator to park in the space directly in front of his or
her place of business. The existing parking meter at said location
shall be removed by the Borough, and a sign shall be erected indicating
permit parking only.
B.
Said parking permit shall be valid between the hours of 8:30 a.m.
and 5:30 p.m., Monday through Saturday.
C.
The owner or operator shall conspicuously display the parking permit
in his or her motor vehicle.
D.
This section shall become effective five days from the date of its
adoption.
[Amended 9-18-2003 by Ord. No. 1114; 5-6-2004 by Ord. No. 1120]
Parking meters shall be operated, by the deposit of a coin in the meter, as prescribed by § 234-49, and the parking rates for specified lengths of time, as well as the maximum parking times prescribed in § 234-44, shall apply at all times between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Monday through Saturday, in the parking meter zones listed in § 234-44. Provided, however: the requirements of this article as to parking time limit and as to deposit of coins in meters shall not apply on Borough of Northampton holidays.
Parking meters installed in the parking meter zones established by § 234-44 of this article shall be placed upon the curb or sidewalk, and immediately adjacent to the individual parking spaces described in § 234-48 of this article. Each parking meter shall be placed or set so as to show that the parking space adjacent to that 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 of Northampton, and when the adjacent space is occupied by a vehicle, the parking meter shall indicate on and by its dial and pointer the duration of the period of legal parking, and, on the expiration of that period, shall indicate illegal parking or over-parking.
Lines and/or markings shall be painted or placed upon the curb,
sidewalk or roadway adjacent to each parking meter for the purpose
of delineating the parking space for which that meter shall be used.
Every vehicle parked at 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 article for any person to park
a vehicle across any such line or marking, or to park a vehicle in
such a position that that vehicle is not wholly within the area designated
by those lines or markings.
Whenever a vehicle is to be parked in any space adjacent to a parking meter, at any time in the period of limited parking as prescribed by § 234-46 of this article, the driver of the vehicle, upon entering the parking space, shall immediately deposit, or cause to be deposited, in that 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 shall remain in any such parking space for such length of time that the meter shall indicate by proper signal that the lawful parking time has expired, that 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 for any person to deposit in any parking
meter installed under the provisions of this article any slug or other
substitute for a coin of the United States of America.
It shall be unlawful and a violation of this article for any
person to deposit or cause to be deposited, in any parking meter installed
under the provisions of this article, any coin for the purpose of
increasing or extending the parking time of any vehicle beyond the
legal parking time of 15 minutes in any fifteen-minute parking meter
zone, 1/2 hour in any one-half-hour parking meter zone, one hour in
any one-hour parking meter zone, or two hours in any two-hour parking
meter zone.
It shall be unlawful, and a violation of this article, for any
person to permit a vehicle to remain in a parking space adjacent to
a parking meter installed under this article, 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.
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: nothing in this section shall apply to
the servicing or opening of parking meters by officers, employees
or police officers of the Borough of Northampton under the direction
of the Mayor or Borough Council.
A.
It shall be the duty of the police officers and parking enforcement
personnel of the Borough of Northampton, acting in accordance with
the directions of the Chief of Police, to report:
(1)
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 article;
(2)
The date and hour of the violation;
(3)
The license number of the vehicle;
(4)
Any other facts, the knowledge of which is necessary for a thorough
understanding of the circumstances attending the violation.
B.
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 article, and instructing the owner or driver that if he will report of the office of the Chief of Police and pay, for the use of the Borough of Northampton, the sum of $5 within 24 hours after the time of such notice of violation, or report to the Office of the Chief of Police and pay, for the use of the Borough, the sum of $10 after 24 hours but within 10 days of the time of such notice of violation, that act will save the violator from prosecution and from payment of the fine prescribed in § 234-55A of this article.
[Amended 5-6-2004 by Ord. No. 1120]
A.
By resolution, the Borough Council may temporarily suspend the provisions
of this article by requiring coin deposit in meters and establishing
a maximum parking time at meters.
B.
The Borough of Northampton shall have authority to establish no-parking
or special-purpose parking zones within any parking meter zone, and
to remove parking meters from those areas as previously installed
there, and the provisions of this article shall not apply in those
areas where no-parking or special-purpose parking are in effect.
