The following are established as the metered parking lots established
by this Borough:
Location
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Between Short Street and Herman Avenue and adjacent to Station
Street
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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 with 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 §
285-56 of this chapter 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 over-parking.
Borough 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 the handicapped and shall designate those
spaces by appropriate signs. It shall be unlawful and a violation
of this chapter 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 chapter
for any person:
A. To park a vehicle across any such line or marking;
B. To park a vehicle in such a position that the vehicle shall not be
within the area so delineated by the lines or markings; or
C. To park a vehicle elsewhere in any such lot than in an individual
parking space adjacent to a parking meter.
It shall be unlawful for any person to park a vehicle in any
metered parking lot:
A. Otherwise than with the front of the parked vehicle nearest to the
parking meter applicable to that vehicle; or
B. With any part of the vehicle touching the meter post or head or the
raised base or barrier on which meters are erected.
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 chapter, provided that every hour that a vehicle remains parked
at a meter showing a violation shall constitute a separate violation
of this chapter.
It shall be unlawful for any person to deposit in any parking
meter installed under the provisions of this chapter any slug or other
substitute for a coin of the United States of America.
It shall be unlawful and a violation of this chapter for any
person to permit a vehicle to remain in a parking space adjacent to
a parking meter installed under this chapter 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 chapter 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 chapter, provided that nothing in this section shall apply
to the servicing or opening of parking meters by officers, employees
or police officers of the Borough of Wilmerding under the direction
of the Borough Manager or Borough Council.
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.