Nothing in this article shall be construed as prohibiting the
Village from providing for bus stops, for taxicab stands and similar
matters, including the loading or 'unloading of trucks, vans
or other commercial vehicles.
For the control of parking and traffic and the good and welfare
of the Village, the installation, maintenance and operation of parking
meters is authorized as more fully provided herein.
(Res. of 1-4-1978; Res. of 12-10-1979; Res. of 12-22-1986; Res. of 10-23-2006)
The following named and described areas, streets or portions
of streets and such other areas, streets or portions of streets as
may hereafter be included by resolution of the Board of Trustees shall
constitute a parking meter zone:
Atlantic Avenue, both sides, starting at a point 400 feet west
of South Bayview Avenue and continuing east to a point midway between
St. Marks Avenue and Westside Avenue.
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Brooklyn Avenue, north side, from Grove Street to Main Street.
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Church Street, from Smith Street to Railroad Avenue. Cottage
Court, from Grove Street east to dead end. Grove Street, from Smith
Street to Sunrise Highway.
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Freeport Plaza West, north side, from North Grove Street to
North Main Street. (Res. of 8-17-2009)
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Guy Lombardo Avenue from Sunrise Highway to Smith Street. (Res. of 9-11-2006)
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Helen Avenue, west side, beginning at a point 90 feet north
of the northerly curbline of Sunrise Highway for a distance of 66
feet in a northerly direction. (Res. of 6-23-1980)
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Main Street, from Smith Street to the railroad tracks.
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Main Street, North, from Brooklyn Avenue to Seaman Avenue.
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Merrick Road, south side, for a distance of 80 feet beginning
200 feet east from the southeast corner of Grove Street and Merrick
Road.
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Merrick Road, East, from the west property line to Freeport
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Memorial Library, to Henry Street (east property line).
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Merrick Road, west from the Freeport Memorial Library to South
Bayview Avenue.
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Newton Boulevard, from Henry Street northeast to Sunrise Highway.
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Newton Boulevard, from Main Street to Henry Street.
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Ocean Avenue, from Merrick Road to Sunrise Highway.
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Parking Field No. 2, the 53 parking spaces, in two rows, located
in the northerly half of said parking field. (Res. of 11-21-1977)
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Parking Field No. 29, situated on the north side of the LIRR
Station. (Res. of 12-21-1992)
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Pine Street, south side beginning at a point 23 feet west of
South Main Street a distance of 42 feet west. (Res. of 6-28-1971)
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Pine Street, south side beginning at a point 122 feet west of
South Main Street a distance of 35 feet west. (Res. of 6-28-1971)
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Freeport Plaza West, south side, from Grove to Main Street.
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Sunrise Highway, from Ocean Avenue to Henry Street.
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Sunrise Highway, East, from Henry Street to the east Village
line, except that portion on the north side of East Sunrise Highway
beginning at the easterly curbline of Helen Avenue for a distance
of 66 feet in an easterly direction. (Res. of 6-23-1980)
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Sunrise Highway, West, from Ocean Avenue to Long Beach Avenue.
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All frontages in said areas, streets or portions of streets
defining said zones are to be included therein.
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Editor's Note: Beginning with legislation
enacted in 1971, amendatory legislation will be set out in a history
note following each street. Deletions will be listed in the history
note following the section.
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(Res. of 2-4-1974; Res. of 5-12-2014)
(a) Deposit of coin. Except in a period of emergency determined
by an officer of the Fire Department or Police Department, or in compliance
with the directions of a police officer or traffic control signal,
or when a prepaid metered parking permit is displayed for the Metered
Parking Zone, when any vehicle shall be parked in any parking space
alongside or next to which a parking meter is located the operator
of such vehicle shall, upon entering said parking meter space, immediately
deposit or cause to be deposited in said meter such proper coin of
the United States, or a parking meter token issued by the Village
of Freeport, as is required for such parking meter and as is designated
by proper direction on the meter, and when required by the directions
on the meter, the operator of such vehicle, after the deposit of the
proper coin or coins, shall also set in operation the timing mechanism
on such meter in accordance with directions properly appearing thereon,
and failure to deposit such proper coin and to set the timing mechanism
in operation when so required shall constitute a violation of this
article.
(b) Effect. Upon deposit of such coin or token and the setting
of the timing mechanism in operation when so required, the parking
space may be lawfully occupied by such vehicle during the period of
time which has been prescribed for the part of the street in which
said parking space is located, provided that any person placing a
vehicle in a parking meter space adjacent to a meter which indicates
that unused time has been left in the meter by the previous occupant
of the space shall not be required to deposit a coin or token so long
as his occupancy of said space does not exceed the indicated unused
parking time. If said vehicle shall remain parked in any such parking
space beyond the parking time limit set for parking space and if the
meter shall indicate such illegal parking, then and in that event,
such vehicle shall be considered as parking overtime and beyond the
period of legal parking time, and such parking shall be deemed a violation
of this article.
(c) Prepaid metered parking permit in parking meter zone: issuance
and display of tag; fee. Any person who owns a business in
the Village may apply for permits for their employees and shall have
the right to receive a tag or license upon making application to the
Village Clerk. The Village Clerk will issue a tag or license for the
vehicle once the applicant pays a semiannual fee. The fee shall be
adopted and, from time to time, amended by resolution of the Board
of Trustees. The tag or license shall entitle the vehicle to be parked
in the places and locations described in § 76 hereof, if
space shall be available, without having to pay the metered parking
rate. Said tag or license shall be exhibited in such a way as the
Village Clerk shall prescribe. Prepaid metered parking permit will
be issued for a period of six months commencing May 1 and ending October
31, and commencing November 1 and ending April 30.
(Amended 9-20-1982 by L.L. No. 10-1982; Res. of 7-23-2001)
Parking or standing a vehicle in a designated space in a parking
zone shall be lawful for one hour upon a deposit of a $0.25 coin of
the United States of America.
The Board of Trustees shall designate collectors to make regular
collections of the money deposited in said meters, and it shall be
the duty of such collectors to remove from the parking meters the
sealed containers therein containing the coins so deposited therein
and to deliver such containers with seals unbroken to the persons
designated by the Board of Trustees who shall count the funds contained
therein and deposit them with the Village Treasurer.
All coins collected from the parking meters turned over to the
Village Treasurer shall be deposited by him in the general funds of
the village.
It shall be unlawful and a violation of the provisions of this
Article for any person:
(a) Overtime parking. To cause, allow, permit or suffer
any vehicle registered in the name of or operated by such person to
be parked overtime or beyond the period of legal parking time established
for any parking meter zone as herein described or to deposit in any
parking meter any coin or token for the purpose of parking beyond
the maximum legal parking time for the particular parking meter zone.
(b) Failure to remove vehicle. To permit any vehicle to
remain in any parking space adjacent to any parking meter while said
meter is displaying a signal indicating that the vehicle occupying
such parking space has been parked beyond the period prescribed for
such parking space.
(c) Improper parking. To park any vehicle across any line
or marking of a parking meter space or in such position that the vehicle
shall not be entirely within the area designated by such lines or
markings.
(Res. of 4-19-1976)
(d) Tampering with meter. To deface, injure, tamper with,
open or willfully break, destroy or impair the usefulness of any parking
meter installed under the provisions of this article.
(e) Depositing slugs. To deposit or cause to be deposited
in a parking meter any slug, device or metallic substitute for a coin
of the United States, except for parking meter tokens issued by the
Village of Freeport for use in Village parking meters.
(Res. of 2-4-1974)
It shall be the duty of the Police Chief to enforce the provisions
of this article.