The City of Pittston finds that certain residential areas in
the City of Pittston are subjected to commuter vehicle parking, therefore
depriving the residents of those areas of spaces in which to park
their own vehicles; those residential streets are also subjected to
a high degree of commuter traffic which substantially reduces the
quality of the ambient air level; and the establishment of a parking
permit program for certain affected areas should facilitate efficient
movement of traffic by providing for parking preference during certain
hours of the day and days of the week. Therefore, the City of Pittston
considers it to be in the interest of the people of the City of Pittston
to provide for the establishment of a residential permit parking program
to insure primary access to available parking spaces by neighborhood
residents and also to provide a cleaner ambient air level.
For the purpose of this article, words and terms listed in this
section, as follows, shall have the following meanings:
A motor vehicle parked in a residential area by a person
not a resident of that residential area.
A person who owns or leases real estate within the residential
area of which he is not a resident, but who owns or manages a business
enterprise or professional office maintained at that address; for
the purpose of this article, a proprietor shall be entitled to one
parking permit for that business or professional office address.
A person who owns or leases real property within the residential
area and who maintains either a voting residence or bona fide occupancy,
or both, at that address; a resident shall be entitled to one parking
permit for that household, regardless of how many vehicles or drivers
are registered to that household address.
A contiguous area containing public highways or parts of
public highways primarily abutted by residential property or residential
and nonbusiness property (such as schools, parks, places of worship,
hospitals and nursing homes).
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Editor's Note: Former § 455-39, Criteria for designating
residential permit parking areas, was repealed 5-15-2024 by Ord. No. 5-2024.
A.
The following are designated as residential parking areas:
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Area
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Bounded By and Not Including
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|---|---|
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East Street
[Added 5-15-2024 by Ord. No. 5-2024] |
Kennedy Boulevard and Johnson Street
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Elizabeth Street
[Added 5-15-2024 by Ord. No. 5-2024] |
East Street and West Columbus Avenue
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|
High Street
[Added 5-15-2024 by Ord. No. 5-2024] |
East Street and West Columbus Avenue
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|
Johnson Street
[Added 5-15-2024 by Ord. No. 5-2024] |
East Street and West Columbus Avenue
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|
Kennedy Street (entire length) (west side of street only)
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Spring Street and Charles Street
|
B.
Signs shall be erected along the streets in each residential permit
parking area, indicating the days, hours and locations and conditions
under which parking shall be by permit only.
[Amended 5-15-2024 by Ord. No. 5-2024]
Application for a residential parking permit shall be made to
the Treasurer's/Tax Collector's Office by the person desiring the
permit, who shall be only the owner or the driver of the motor vehicle
who resides on or is a proprietor of property immediately adjacent
to a street or other location within a residential parking permit
area. Each application shall contain the following information: the
name of the owner or the driver, as the case may be, of the motor
vehicle; the address of the resident or the proprietor, as the case
may be; the make, model and registration number of the motor vehicle;
and the driver number as taken from the applicant's current driver's
license. At the discretion of the Treasurer's/Tax Collector's Office,
the applicant shall be required, at the time of making application,
to present his driver's license and the vehicle registration card.
Each individual resident who resides in the area shall be entitled
to one free permit. Additional permits for qualifying individuals/owners
shall be able to obtain one additional permit for $25 annually.
[Amended 5-15-2024 by Ord. No. 5-2024]
Upon receipt of the application and determination that the information
upon the application shows that the applicant is entitled to a residential
parking permit, the Treasurer's/Tax Collector's Office shall issue
to the applicant a residential parking permit, which shall be valid
for the remainder of the calendar year. The permit shall be renewable
annually upon making application for renewal. It shall be unlawful
and a violation of this article for any person to display other than
the current and valid permit while standing or parking in a residential
permit parking area at the time when those permits are to be displayed.
[Amended 5-15-2024 by Ord. No. 5-2024]
Temporary parking permits may be issued by the Treasurer's/Tax
Collector's Office to bona fide visitors of residents of a designated
residential permit parking area, and exemption parking permits may
be issued, without payment of a fee, to handicapped persons.
A.
Notwithstanding any provision of this article to the contrary, the
holder of a residential parking permit shall be permitted to stand
or park a motor vehicle operated by him in any designated residential
parking area during those times when parking of motor vehicles is
permitted in that area. While a vehicle for which a residential parking
permit has been issued is so parked, that permit shall be displayed
so as to be clearly visible through the windshield of the vehicle.
A residential parking permit shall not guarantee or reserve to the
holder a parking space within a designated residential permit parking
area.
B.
A residential parking permit shall not authorize its holder to stand
or park a motor vehicle in any place where or at any time when stopping,
standing or parking of motor vehicles is prohibited or set aside for
other specified types of vehicles, nor shall the permit exempt its
holder from the observance of any traffic or parking regulation other
than a residential permit parking regulation or restriction.
C.
No person other than the permit holder whose name appears on the
permit shall use a residential parking permit or display it on a vehicle
operated; any such use or display by a person other than the permit
holder shall constitute a violation of this article by the permit
holder and by the person who so used or displayed the parking permit.
D.
It shall constitute a violation of this article for any person falsely
to represent himself as eligible for a residential parking permit
or to furnish false information in an application to the Chief of
Police in order to obtain a residential parking permit.
[Amended 5-15-2024 by Ord. No. 5-2024]
The Treasurer's/Tax Collector's Office shall have authority
to revoke the residential parking permit of any permit holder found
to be in violation of any provision of this article. Upon written
notification to him of the revocation, the permit holder shall surrender
the permit to the Treasurer's/Tax Collector's Office. Failure to do
so, when so requested, shall constitute a violation of this article,
provided that any person receiving such a notice may, within 10 days
after the date of the notice, appeal to Pittston City Council for
a hearing on the revocation, and the decision of the Pittston City
Council shall be final.
Any person who violates any provision of this article shall,
upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than $25 and
costs; provided, however, that it shall be the duty of the police
officers and of parking enforcement personnel of the City of Pittston
to report to the appropriate official all violations of any provision
of this article, indicating, in each case, the section violated, the
license number of the vehicle involved in the violation, the location
where the violation took place, and any other facts that might be
necessary in order to secure a clear understanding of the circumstances
attending the violation. The police officer or other person making
the report shall also attach to or place upon every such vehicle a
notice stating that the vehicle was parked in violation of this article.
The notice shall contain instructions to the owner or driver of the
vehicle that if he will report to the office of the Chief of Police
and pay the sum of $25 within 72 hours after the time of the notice,
or if he will place the sum of $25, enclosed within the envelope provided,
in any of the special fine boxes installed at various locations within
the City of Pittston, that act will save the violator from prosecution
and from payment of the fine and costs prescribed in the first sentence
of this section.
