[Amended 7-17-1986 by Ord. No. 1358; 8-17-1989 by Ord. No.
1421; 6-18-1992 by Ord. No. 1449]
The following are established as the metered parking lots established
by this City:
A.
City-owned lots.
[Amended 12-10-2009 by Ord. No. 1824[1]]
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Lot
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Location
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Rate
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Maximum Parking Time
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Days in Operation
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Hours in Operation
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Site B
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North Main Street
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$0.25/15 minutes
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2 hours
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24 hours a day except holidays
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24
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Site C
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East Wheeling Street
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$0.25/20 minutes
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10 hours
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Weekdays except holidays
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24
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Site D
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South Main Street
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$0.25/20 minutes
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10 hours
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24 hours except holidays
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24
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Site E
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South Main Street
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$0.25/20 minutes
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10 hours
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24 hours except holidays
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24
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Site G
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West Maiden Street
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$0.25/20 minutes
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10 hours
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Weekdays except holidays
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24
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[1]
Editor's Note: This ordinance also repealed original Subsection
B, Leased lots, which immediately followed this subsection.
Parking meters installed in the parking lots shall be placed immediately adjacent to the individual parking spaces that shall be marked off and maintained in the lots. For each parking meter there shall be a clear indication, through use of a directional arrow or an identification as to number within the parking space, to show which individual parking space it serves. Each parking meter shall indicate by a proper legend the parking rate and the maximum parking time established by § 335-63 of this article, and when the parking space is occupied and the parking meter put into operation by the insertion of one or more coins, the parking meter shall indicate on and by its dial and pointer the duration of legal parking and, upon the expiration of that period, shall indicate illegal parking or overparking.
Council, at its discretion, may provide at convenient and suitable
locations in any one or more of the metered parking lots reserved
parking spaces for handicapped, and shall designate those spaces by
appropriate signs. It shall be unlawful and a violation of this article
for any person to park in any such reserved parking space any vehicle
unless that vehicle bears or displays either a handicapped registration
plate, a handicapped parking placard, a disabled veteran registration
plate or a disabled veteran placard.
Lines and/or markings shall be painted or placed upon the surface
of the metered parking lots adjacent to each parking meter for the
purpose of delineating the parking space for which that meter shall
be used. Every vehicle parked adjacent to 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:
It shall be unlawful for any person to park a vehicle in any
metered parking lot:
Whenever a vehicle is to be parked in any metered parking lot,
at any time when the lot is open for use and the meters are to be
in operation, the driver of the vehicle, upon entering the parking
space, shall immediately deposit or cause to be deposited in the proper
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 remains in any such parking space for
such length of time that the meter indicates that the lawful parking
time has expired, that vehicle shall be considered as being parked
overtime, and the parking of a vehicle overtime shall be a violation
of this article, provided that every hour that a vehicle remains parked
at a meter showing a violation shall constitute a separate 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 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 that nothing in this section shall apply
to the servicing or opening of parking meters by officers, employees
or police officers of the City under the direction of the Mayor.
The metered parking lots established by this article shall be
for the use of passenger cars, passenger vans and pickup trucks only,
and it shall be unlawful for any person to park any other type of
vehicle in any of those lots.
[Amended 12-23-1992 by Ord. No. 1456; 11-13-2003 by Ord. No. 1719; 1-11-2007 by Ord. No. 1767; 12-10-2009 by Ord. No. 1824]
A.
It shall be the duty of the police officers and parking enforcement
personnel of the City, acting in accordance with the direction 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 to the
office of the Parking Authority and pay, for the use of the City,
the sum of $10 within two hours after the time of the notice, this
fine will be considered paid. After 6:00 p.m., a courtesy box will
be available for payment at 50 East Chestnut, the office for the Washington
City Parking Authority, and upon deposit of the ticket within the
box, the fine will be considered paid.
C.
A second ticket shall be placed upon a vehicle upon expiration of
a two-hour time lapse from issuance of the first ticket for exceeding
the legal time purchased at metered space. The fine for a second ticket
shall be $20.
D.
It shall be unlawful for any person to park a vehicle or to allow
any vehicle to remain parked in any handicap zone or in any parking
space designated for parking for handicapped individuals unless that
person shall first obtain written permission from the City of Washington
or the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or otherwise displays an appropriate
handicapped placard as authorized by the City of Washington or the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Any person who violates any provision
of this section shall be cited for said violation consistent with
the article and, upon conviction, shall be sentenced to pay a fine
of not more than $250 plus costs.
[Amended 12-23-1992 by Ord. No. 1456; 11-13-2003 by Ord. No. 1719; 1-11-2007 by Ord. No. 1767; 9-11-2008 by Ord. No. 1802; 0-0-0000 by Ord. No. 1828 (Bill No. 1 of 2010)]
A.
Each ten-dollar overtime parking ticket, if paid by 12:00 midnight the same day of issuance, shall be considered paid in full. Any person who violates any provision of this article, with the exception of §§ 335-67 and 335-71, and who pays an overtime parking ticket after 12:00 midnight the same day of issuance shall pay a total fine due of $20. Any parking ticket under this section paid on the day following the date of issuance, but less than five days from the date of issuance, shall pay a total fine of $40. A citation will be issued for tickets not paid within 14 calendar days after issuance and shall be forwarded to the Magisterial District Judge for collection/prosecution and, upon conviction, shall be guilty of a summary offense and shall pay a fine of at least $60 but not more than $300, together with costs of prosecution.
