Parking in metered parking facilities shall be unlawful, except
in individual metered parking spaces. Such parking facilities are
for the use of passenger vehicles and pickup trucks only, and it shall
be unlawful for any person to park in any such facility any bus, tractor,
trailer, tractor-trailer or large truck which could not, with safety,
be parked in an individual parking space marked off.
A. Lots. The following are hereby established as metered parking lots
in the Borough:
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Lot
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Location
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Logan Avenue Lot
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At the intersection of Logan Avenue and Herald Street
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B. Parking meters in such lots shall be operative from 8:00 a.m. to
5:00 p.m., Monday through Saturday, except on New Year's Day, Memorial
Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.
The Municipal Manager is hereby directed to provide for the
installation, regulation, control, operation and use of the parking
meters provided for by this article and to maintain such meters in
good condition, and is hereby invested with the power and authority
to enter into one or more contracts, after approval of the terms and
conditions thereof by Council, for the purchase and installation of
parking meters, and for such protection and maintenance of parking
meters as may be necessary to maintain the same in good operating
condition. The payment of all money required from the Borough under
any and all such contracts may be made from general municipal funds.
Parking meters installed in parking meter zones and in parking facilities, as specified in §§
190-41 and
190-42 of this article, shall be placed and located under the direction of the Manager. Where possible, meters in the parking meter zones along the highways shall be placed on the curb. In every instance, the parking meter shall be immediately adjacent to the individual parking space to which such meter pertains. Each parking meter shall be placed or set in such manner as to show or display, by a signal, that the parking space adjacent to such meter is or is not legally in use. Each parking meter installed shall indicate, by a proper legend, the legal parking time established by the municipality for such parking space and, when operated, shall indicate on and by its dial and pointer the duration of such period and, upon the expiration of such period, shall indicate illegal or overtime parking.
It shall be unlawful and a violation of this article for any person to deposit or cause to be deposited, in any parking meter, any coin for the purpose of increasing or extending the parking time of any vehicle beyond the total legal parking time in the space occupied by such vehicle, as prescribed in §§
190-41 and
190-42 herein.
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. Nothing herein shall apply to the servicing or opening
of parking meters by parking meter enforcement officers, employees
and/or police officers of the Borough under the direction of the Municipal
Manager or Council.