[Ord. 1984-1, 2/23/1984]
The following words when used in this Part 4 shall have the
following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates a different
meaning:
ELECTRIC VEHICLE
Any self-propelled motorized vehicle licensed to travel upon
the street, roads and highways of the Borough of Doylestown and capable
of receiving and storing electricity via a plug-in, including hybrid
electric vehicles.
[Added by Ord. 2018-6, 5/21/2018, § I]
EV CHARGING STATION
Any level of electric vehicle supply equipment station that
delivers electricity from a source outside an electric vehicle into
a plug-electric vehicle.
[Added by Ord. 2018-6, 5/21/2018, § I]
EV CHARGING STATION PARKING SPACE
A parking space with an EV Charging Station, designated as
an EV Charging Station Parking Space, and situated so as to allow
an electric vehicle to access an EV Charging Station.
[Added by Ord. 2018-6, 5/21/2018, § I]
INDIVIDUAL PARKING SPACE
Portion of a metered parking zone specified and marked off
sufficiently to accommodate a parked vehicle.
PARKING
Standing of a vehicle on or in any of the off-street facilities
provided therefor, and whether such vehicle is occupied or not, by
an operator or otherwise, for a period in excess of one minute.
PARKING METER
Device which shall indicate thereon the length of time during
which a vehicle may park in a particular individual parking space
and which may have a receptacle for receiving and storing coins representing
currency of the United States of America, and may also have a credit
card or debit card reader, and a timing device to indicate the passage
of an interval of time during which parking is permissible. Said device
shall also display an appropriate signal when the aforesaid interval
of time shall have elapsed, brief instructions as to the operation
of said parking meter, and the schedule of parking meter rates and
times of operation.
[Amended by Ord. 2017-7, 5/15/2017]
VEHICLE
Any type of mechanical device in which persons or property
may be transported upon public streets or highways.
[Ord. 1984-1, 2/23/1984; as amended by Ord. 1984-12, 6/18/1984;
by Ord. 1992-2, 1/20/1992, § 1; by Ord. 1995-3, 7/17/1995,
§ 2; by Ord. 1997-5, 8/18/1997, § 2; by Ord. 1998-8,
9/21/1998, § 2; by Ord. 1999-7, from, 6/28/1999, § 2;
by Ord. 1999-12, 7/19/1999, § 2; by Ord. 1999-14, 7/19/1999,
§ 1; by Ord. 2000-2, 2/28/2000, § 4; by Ord. 2000-4,
6/26/2000, § 2; by Ord. 2001-7, 6/18/2001, § 2;
by Ord. 2001-12, 11/19/2001, § 3; by Ord. 2005-8, 6/20/2005,
§ 6; by Ord. 2017-7, 5/15/2017; and by Ord. 2017-14, 10/16/2017]
Parking meter zones are hereby established, with Zone A having
three-hour meters and Zone B having ten-hour meters, upon and along
the following streets:
Street
|
Side
|
Between
|
Zone
|
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Ashland Street
|
Both
|
Main Street and Clinton Street
|
B
|
Ashland Street
|
Both
|
South Main Street and Pine Street
|
B
|
Broad Street
|
North
|
Main Street and a point 67 feet west of its intersection with
the west side of East Court Street
|
A
|
Broad Street
|
West
|
State Street and Court Street
|
A
|
Clinton Street
|
East
|
For a distance of 60 feet in a southerly direction from a point
of 20 feet south of the south side of Oakland Avenue
|
A
|
Court Street
|
North
|
Broad Street and Hamilton Street
|
A
|
Court Street
|
North
|
Hamilton Street and Clinton Street
|
B
|
Court Street
|
South
|
Church Street and Main Street, excepting therefrom that area
extending a distance of 20 feet in a westerly direction beginning
at a point 90 feet from the westerly side of Broad Street
|
A
|
Donaldson Street
|
Both
|
East Ashland Street and East Oakland Avenue
|
B
|
Hamilton Street
|
Both
|
West Ashland Street and West Oakland Avenue
|
B1
|
Hamilton Street
|
East
|
West State Street and West Oakland Avenue
|
A
|
Hamilton Street
|
West
|
West Court Street and West State Street
|
A
|
Harvey Avenue
|
Both
|
West Court Street and a point 160 feet north
|
B
|
Main Street
|
East
|
Oakland Avenue and State Street
|
A
|
Main Street
|
West
|
Ashland Street and Broad Street
|
A
|
Main Street
|
West
|
Broad Street and Union Street
|
B
|
Mechanic Street
|
North
|
Broad Street up to, but not including, the property owned by
Doylestown Presbyterian Church
|
A
|
Oakland Avenue
|
Both
|
Clinton Street and Hamilton Street
|
B
|
Oakland Avenue
|
Both
|
Hamilton Street and Pine Street
|
A
|
Pine Street
|
West
|
Court Street and State Street
|
A
|
Pine Street
|
West
|
Oakland Avenue and Ashland Street
|
B
|
Shewell Avenue
|
East
|
The westerly side of North Main Street and the south side of
Pennsylvania National Guard Armory property
|
A
|
State Street
|
Both
|
Broad Street and Franklin Street
|
A
|
State Street
|
Both
|
Church Street and Broad Street
|
B
|
Taylor Avenue
|
South
|
Donaldson Street and Pine Street
|
B
|
West State Street
|
Both
|
Franklin Street and West Street
|
A
|
NOTES:
|
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1.
|
On Hamilton Street between West Ashland and West Oakland there
is one three-hour meter that will be enforced as Zone A.
|
[Ord. 1984-1, 2/23/1984; as amended by Ord. 2002-6, 6/17/2002,
§ 2; and by Ord. 2017-7, 5/15/2017]
1. The off-street parking lots which shall be subject to this Part 4
shall be those sites described and designated as follows:
A. Zone A — Three-Hour Meters.
(1)
The intersection of East State Street and Pine Street, also
known as "Pine Street Parking Lot."
(2)
Plaza East Lot at the intersection of East Oakland Avenue and
Donaldson Street.
(3)
The south side of West Court Street between Main Street and
Hamilton Street, also known as "Kenny's Parking Lot."
B. Pay-and-Display Kiosk.
(1)
Plaza West Lot at the intersection of West State Street and
Hamilton Street.
C. Monthly Permit Lots.
(1)
The north side of Wood Street between Hamilton Street and Clinton
Street, also known as the "Wood Street Parking Lot."
D. Both Zone A — Three-Hour Meters and Zone B — Ten-Hour
Meters.
[Added by Ord. 2017-14, 10/16/2017]
(1) The
intersection of West Court Street and Clinton Street, also known as
the "Clinton Street Parking Lot."
[Ord. 2017-7, 5/15/2017]
1. The following methods are the approved methods of payment for use
of any on-street parking space regulated by parking meter:
A. Deposit of coin(s) and/or bills (U.S. currency) where applicable,
in the meter.
B. Insertion of a valid debit card or credit card in the meter.
C. Subject to the provision of Subsection
2 below, purchase of parking time using a telecommunications device (phone, computer, mobile device, etc.) through a payment software application administered by a third-party vendor approved by the Borough of Doylestown.
2. Upon proper registration with the approved third-party vendor, any
driver or operator of a vehicle may pay for the use of any metered
parking space regulated by a single space parking meter through such
vendor's payment software application. Users not registered with the
approved third-party vendor may not use this payment option. The approved
vendor shall be approved and identified by separate resolution of
Doylestown Borough Council.
3. For users registered to make payment through the payment software
application authorized in this section, additional charges, such as
processing and other similar fees, may be charged by the third-party
vendor for use of the payment software application. These charges
are over and above the parking rates established by the Doylestown
Borough Council. Such additional charges are not part of the parking
rates established by the Doylestown Borough Council, but are set by
the third-party vendor for use of its software program. By electing
to pay through the third-party administered payment software applications,
the registered user accepts and consents to the payment of such additional
charges.
[Ord. 1984-1, 2/23/1984; as added by Ord. 1993-2, 1/18/1993,
§ 1; and amended by Ord. 1994-3, 4/18/1994, § 1]
1. Borough Council may by separate resolution designate any of the parking meter zones and/or parking lots established under §§ 402 and 403 of this Part
4 as a special permit parking zone. All parking meters situate within designated special permit parking zones shall be suitably marked to identify them as being within the special permit parking zone.
2. Any person, firm or corporation, including any contractor performing contracting work within the Borough ("contractor applicant"), each an applicant, may make application to the Borough Manager of the Borough of Doylestown for a special permit or permits to authorize the applicant, or any person designated by the applicant, (i) in the case of a contractor applicant, to park a motor vehicle in any parking meter zones and/or parking lots established under §§ 402, 403 and 403.2 of this Part
4; and (ii) in the case of any applicant who is not a contractor applicant, to park a motor vehicle in any designated special permit parking zone, all in accordance with the provisions of this section. A separate application shall be required of and, upon compliance with the provisions of this section, a separate special permit shall be issued to each applicant.
[Amended by Ord. 2017-7, 5/15/2017; and by Ord. No. 2018-13,
12/17/2018]
3. Applications.
A. Fees.
[Amended by Ord. No. 2018-13, 12/17/2018]
(1) Each application for a special permit, other than an application
made by a contractor applicant, shall be accompanied by a special
permit fee of $60 or such other fee as Borough Council may from time
to time, by separate resolution, establish.
(2) Each application for a special permit made by a contractor applicant
("contractor permit") shall be accompanied by a special permit fee
as follows:
(a) $5 for a special parking contractor permit with an effectiveness
of one calendar day;
(b) $25 for a special parking contractor permit with an effectiveness
of one week;
(c) $100 for a special parking contractor permit with an effectiveness
of one month.
(3) All special permit fees shall be nonrefundable upon issuance of the
special permits.
B. Each applicant shall be solely responsible for each special permit
issued to such applicant hereunder, and each applicant shall, upon
any such special permit being lost, mislaid or stolen, report such
fact, and the number of such special permit, to the Borough Manager.
[Amended by Ord. 2017-7, 5/15/2017]
C. Any special permit which has been issued hereunder and which has
been lost, mislaid or stolen shall not be replaced by a duplicate
permit or a substitute permit; provided, however, that should the
applicant find, locate and retrieve any special permit which had been
lost, mislaid or stolen, such special permit shall be and remain valid
and effective for the remainder of the term for which it was originally
issued, and provided further that nothing herein contained shall be
construed to prevent any applicant from applying for a new special
permit or permits provided the required fee is paid and there is compliance
with all other provisions of this section.
D. Each application for a special permit shall contain such information
as the Borough Manager shall deem necessary to properly administer
this section, and such information shall be verified to the satisfaction
of the Borough Manager.
[Amended by Ord. 2017-7, 5/15/2017]
4. Special Permit Issuance.
A. Each special permit issued hereunder, other than a contractor permit issued to a contractor applicant, shall be effective upon issuance and shall automatically terminate and be null and void on July 1 or January 1 next following the date of issuance, whichever should first occur. Each contractor permit issued to a contractor applicant shall be effective upon issuance and shall remain effective for the term for which such permit was issued pursuant to § 403.2, Subsection
3A above.
[Amended by Ord. No. 2018-13, 12/17/2018]
B. Provided that there is compliance with Subsection
4C below, each special permit issued hereunder shall be applicable to any motor vehicle operated by the applicant or by any person designated by the applicant.
C. Each special permit issued hereunder shall be affixed to any motor
vehicle, parked pursuant to the provisions of this section in a special
permit parking zone, in such manner and at such location on the vehicle
as shall be determined by the Borough Manager.
[Amended by Ord. 2017-7, 5/15/2017]
5. The provisions of §§ 404, 408 and 410 of this Part
4 relating to parking time limits, coin deposit in meters and additional violations shall not apply to any vehicle to which a currently effective special permit has been affixed where: (i) in the case of a contractor permit, such vehicle is parked in any parking meter zones and/or parking lots established under §§ 402, 403 and 403.2 of this Part
4; and (ii) in the case of any special parking permit that is not a contractor permit, such vehicle is parked in a special permit parking zone. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to relieve any person from full compliance with all other applicable provisions of this Part
4.
[Amended by Ord. No. 2018-13, 12/17/2018]
6. The issuance or possession of a special permit shall not guarantee or reserve to the holder thereof any parking space within any parking meter zones and/or parking lots established under §§ 402,403 and 403.2 of this Part
4.
[Amended by Ord. No. 2018-13, 12/17/2018]
7. It shall constitute a violation of this section for any person to
furnish false information in an application to the Borough Manager
in order to obtain a special permit or to use any special permit issued
hereunder without being designated and authorized to do so by the
applicant. The Borough Manager shall have the authority to revoke
any special permit where the holder thereof violates any of the provisions
of this section.
[Amended by Ord. 2017-7, 5/15/2017]
[Added by Ord. 2018-6, 5/21/2018, § II]
1. All EV charging station parking spaces shall be suitably marked with
a designation to reflect that it is an EV charging station parking
space.
2. EV charging station parking spaces shall be located as follows:
Location
|
Payment Type
|
Designation
|
Number of Spaces
|
---|
Pine Street Parking Lot
|
Three-hour meter
|
Zone A
|
1
|
Plaza West Lot
|
Pay-and-display kiosk
|
Pay-and-display kiosk
|
1
|
3. Parking any vehicle other than an electric vehicle in a designated
EV charging station parking space shall be prohibited at all times,
even when payment of the parking meter rates are not in effect.
4. Use of the EV charging station for any purpose other than charging
an electric vehicle is prohibited.
5. It shall be unlawful and a violation of this Part 4 for any person
to deface, tamper with, open, willfully break, destroy or impair the
usefulness of an EV charging station, provided that nothing herein
shall apply to the servicing of EV charging stations by officers,
employees, police officers and/or agents of the Borough under the
direction of the Borough Council.
[Ord. 1984-1, 2/23/1984; as amended by Ord. 2017-7, 5/15/2017]
Use of any and all parking spaces regulated by parking meters
under this Part 4 shall require payment of the parking meter rates,
as designated and approved from time to time by resolution of the
Doylestown Borough Council, from 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. except
on Sundays and legal holidays.
[Ord. 1984-1, 2/23/1984]
Parking meters shall be installed in the parking meter zones
established as provided in § 401, and where installed shall
be placed upon the sidewalk, immediately adjacent to the individual
parking spaces as described in § 404. Each 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 meter installed
shall indicate by a proper legend the legal parking time established
by the Borough and, when occupied, shall indicate by its dial and
pointer the duration of the period of legal parking and, on expiration
of such period, shall indicate illegal or overtime parking.
[Ord. 1984-1, 2/23/1984]
Lines and/or markings shall be painted or placed upon the curb,
sidewalk and/or street 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 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.
[Ord. 1984-1, 2/23/1984]
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 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 vehicle nearest to such meter.
[Ord. 2017-7, 5/15/2017]
Any person who causes a vehicle to be parked in a parking space
shall use an approved means of payment for the parking meter adjacent
to such space, according to the time limits and rates indicated on
the meter. Notwithstanding the rates established in § 408.1,
all payments by credit card and debit card may be subject to a minimum.
[Ord. 1984-1, 2/23/1984; as amended by Ord. 2017-7, 5/15/2017]
The rates for on-street parking and metered lots will be specified
by resolution of the Doylestown Borough Council and shall take effect
on the date established by the resolution.
[Ord. 1984-1, 2/23/1984; as amended by Ord. 2017-7, 5/15/2017]
Any person or persons who cause a vehicle to remain in a parking
space after the prescribed time has elapsed is hereby determined to
be illegally parked; and each additional hour that such person or
persons permit such vehicle to remain in an individual parking space
after the prescribed time for parking has elapsed is hereby declared
to be an additional violation. The fact that a vehicle is in an individual
parking space when the time signal on the parking meter regulating
said parking space shows that no parking is permitted, or that the
time has expired, shall be deemed prima facie evidence of the unlawful
parking of said vehicle by its operator and/or owner. The elapse of
one hour from the time reported on the notice to the owner or operator
of a motor vehicle, shall be deemed prima facie evidence of additional
violations of the parking of said motor vehicle by the operator or
owner.
[Ord. 1984-1, 2/23/1984; as amended by Ord. 2017-7, 5/15/2017]
It shall be unlawful and a violation of this Part for any person
to deposit or to cause to be deposited in any parking meter any payment
for the purpose of increasing or extending the parking time of any
vehicle beyond the total legal parking time in a parking meter zone.
[Ord. 1984-1, 2/23/1984]
It shall be unlawful and a violation of this Part 4 for any
person to deface, tamper with, open or wilfully break, destroy or
impair the usefulness of any parking meter, or parking meter stand
or coin depository installed under the provisions of this part, provided
that nothing herein shall apply to the servicing or opening of parking
meters by officers, employees and/or police officers of the Borough
under the direction of the Mayor and/or the Borough Council.
[Ord. 1984-1, 2/23/1984; as amended by Ord. 2017-7, 5/15/2017]
It shall be the duty of the police officers, or other designated
person(s) of the Borough, in accordance with the instructions of the
Borough Manager, to report all violations of any provision of this
Part 4, indicating, in each case:
1. The section thereof violated;
2. The location where such violation took place; including the parking
meter at which the vehicle was illegally parked;
3. The state and license number of such vehicle;
4. The date and time of violation;
5. The date and time of the notice of the violation;
6. Other facts deemed necessary for a clear understanding of the circumstances
attending the violation.
Every such police officer shall place upon such vehicle a notice
to the owner or driver thereof that such vehicle was parked in violation
of a provision of this Part, and shall indicate on the notice, the
date and time the notice was placed on the vehicle.
|
[Ord. 1984-1, 2/23/1984]
The Borough Council may suspend in whole or in part the parking
meter regulations set forth in this Part 4 during such days and hours
as may be designated by them.
[Ord. 1984-1, 2/23/1984; as amended by Ord. 1988-13, 6/20/1988,
§ 1; by Ord. 1989-9, 6/19/1989, § 1; by Ord. 2003-9,
12/15/2003, § 6; by Ord. 2004-14, 12/20/2004, § 3;
by Ord. 2010-19, 12/20/2010, §§ 1, 2, 3 and 4; and
by Ord. 2017-16, 11/20/2017]
1. Any person, firm, corporation or owner of any vehicle parking in violation of any section or provision of this Part
4, or aiding, abetting or assisting the violation thereof, shall be assessed a fine in accordance with the following schedule:
A. Twenty dollars, unless otherwise specified in Subsection
1C below, for each separate parking violation if paid within 10 days of the date that the notice of violation was issued. The owner or driver may discharge the fine by paying $20 within the time limit indicated on the ticket by the following means: a) in person at Borough Hall between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.; b) via telephone as indicated on the tickets; c) by mail, with a check or money order mailed to Borough Hall; or d) online, through the Borough website. If the fine is not paid within 10 days, the fine increases to $50, again payable within 10 days.
[Amended by Ord. No. 2020-5, 12/21/2020]
C. Fifty-dollar fines:
(1)
Fifty dollars for the following:
(a)
A second parking violation that occurs within 10 days.
(b)
A violation of § 403.3 of this Part
4, regarding EV charging station parking, or § 411 of this Part
4, depositing a coin in a meter or making other payment to extend parking time beyond the legal limit.
[Amended by Ord. 2018-6, 5/21/2018, § III]
(c)
Any violation subject to fine under Subsection
1A that is not paid within 10 days.
[Amended by Ord. No. 2020-5, 12/21/2020]
(2)
The fines set forth in this Subsection
1C are payable within 10 days, by means set forth in Subsection
1A of this section. Any fines not paid within 10 days shall be referred for institution of a criminal proceeding, subject to the process set forth in Subsection
1D.
D. If a fine assessed under Subsection
1A,
B, or
C of this section is not paid within 10 days, or the maximum allowable time as indicated, a criminal proceeding shall be instituted by either a law enforcement officer or means of electronic transmission of the information to the Magisterial District Court. Except as provided in Subsection
1E below, any person assessed a fine for a violation of any section of this Part or the procedures adopted pursuant thereto who does not pay the fine within the allowable time shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a penalty of $50 for each violation, together with costs of prosecution.
E. The violation of § 412, Tampering with Meters Unlawful,
is a criminal act punishable as a felony, misdemeanor, or summary
offense depending on the extent of the damage inflicted. [18 Pa.C.S.A.
§ 3304 (1972), as hereafter amended, supplemented, modified
or reenacted by the General Assembly of Pennsylvania]
[Ord. 1984-1, 2/23/1984; as amended by Ord. 2017-16, 11/20/2017]
The Borough Council shall designate a person or persons who
shall collect the coins in the parking meters and deliver the same
to the depository.
[Ord. 2014-1, 1/27/2014]
Parking Enforcement Officers are expressly empowered to take all actions necessary to enforce the provisions of this Chapter
15, Part
4.