Village of Freeport, NY Parking Meters

The term "parking meter" shall mean any mechanical device or meter, not inconsistent with this article, placed or erected for the regulation of parking by authority of this article. Each meter installed shall indicate by proper legend the legal parking time established by the Village and when operated shall at all times indicate the balance of legal parking time and at the expiration of such period shall indicate illegal or overtime parking.

The term "parking meter space" shall mean any space within a parking meter zone adjacent to a parking meter and which is duly designated for the parking of a single vehicle by lines painted or otherwise durably marked upon the curb or the surface of the street adjacent to or adjoining a parking meter.

The term "parking meter zone" shall mean any and all streets set aside under provision of this Article for the installation and operation of parking meters and upon which parking meters have heretofore been installed and are in operation.

Sec. 76 Parking meter zones.

(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.

Brooklyn Avenue, north side, from Grove Street to Main Street.

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.

Freeport Plaza West, north side, from North Grove Street to North Main Street.

(Res. of 8-17-2009)

Guy Lombardo Avenue from Sunrise Highway to Smith Street.

(Res. of 9-11-2006)

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)

Main Street, from Smith Street to the railroad tracks.

Main Street, North, from Brooklyn Avenue to Seaman Avenue.

Merrick Road, south side, for a distance of 80 feet beginning 200 feet east from the southeast corner of Grove Street and Merrick Road.

Merrick Road, East, from the west property line to Freeport

Memorial Library, to Henry Street (east property line).

Merrick Road, west from the Freeport Memorial Library to South Bayview Avenue.

Newton Boulevard, from Henry Street northeast to Sunrise Highway.

Newton Boulevard, from Main Street to Henry Street.

Ocean Avenue, from Merrick Road to Sunrise Highway.

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)

Parking Field No. 29, situated on the north side of the LIRR Station.

(Res. of 12-21-1992)

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)

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)

Freeport Plaza West, south side, from Grove to Main Street.

Sunrise Highway, from Ocean Avenue to Henry Street.

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)

Sunrise Highway, West, from Ocean Avenue to Long Beach Avenue.

All frontages in said areas, streets or portions of streets defining said zones are to be included therein.

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.

Sec. 77 Designation of parking spaces.

Generally. The Police Chief is hereby directed and authorized to mark off individual parking spaces in the parking zones designated and described in Section 76 hereof and in such other zones as may hereafter be established. Said parking spaces are to be designated by lines painted or durably marked upon the curbing or surface of the street. At each space so marked, it shall be unlawful to park any vehicle in such a way that said vehicle shall not be entirely within the limits of the space so designated.

Manner of parking. All parking spaces either heretofore established or hereafter to be established within the Village, whether in the parking meter zone or not, shall be so marked as to require all vehicles to be parked parallel with the curb on Sunrise Highway and on any and all other state highways.

Compliance with state law required. All parking meter spaces on any street within the Village shall be marked so that no vehicle will be parked in violation of the Vehicle and Traffic Law.

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State law references: Stopping, standing and parking prohibited in specified places. § 1202. vehicle and Traffic Law; authority to provide for and to regulate operation of parking meters, § 1640-a, subdivision 9. vehicle and Traffic Law.

Sec. 78 Installation of parking meters.

Duty of Police Chief. In said parking meter zones, the Police Chief shall cause parking meters to be installed upon the curb or sidewalk immediately adjacent to the parking space designated as provided in Section 76 hereof. Such installation shall be not more than two feet from the curb nor more than four feet from the front line of the parking space as indicated, and the Police Chief shall be responsible for the regulation, control, maintenance and use of such parking meters.

Setting meter. Each parking meter shall be so set as to display a signal showing legal parking upon the deposit of the appropriate coin or coins, lawful money of the United States of America or a parking meter token issued by the Village of Freeport, for the period of time prescribed by resolution of the Board of Trustees. Each meter shall be so arranged that upon the expiration of the lawful time limit it will indicate by a proper visible signal that the lawful parking period has expired, and in such cases the right of such vehicle to occupy such space shall cease, and the operator, owner or manager thereof shall be subject to the penalties hereinafter provided.

(Res. of 2-4-1974)

Sec. 79 Operation of parking meters.

(Res. of 2-4-1974; Res. of 5-12-2014)

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.

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.

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.

Sec. 80 Parking meter rates designated.

(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.

Sec. 81 Parking time limits; establishment, operation.

(Res. of 1-4-1978)

Generally. Except as provided in Section 40(d), parking or standing a vehicle in a designated space in a parking meter zone or in a municipal metered parking field shall be lawful only for the periods of time prescribed and upon the deposit of a coin, coins or token, as the Board of Trustees may hereafter by resolution prescribe from time to time.

Hours of operation generally; holidays. Said parking meters shall be operated in said parking meter zones every day between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m., except Sundays and holidays, provided that within the meaning of this Article the term "holiday" shall include the following days in each year: the first day of January, known as New Year's Day; the 3rd Monday in January, known as Martin Luther King Jr. Day; the 12th day of February, known as Lincoln's Birthday; the 3rd Monday in February, known as President's Day; the 30th day of May, known as Memorial Day; the 4th day of July, known as Independence Day; the first Monday of September, known as Labor Day; the 12th day of October, known as Columbus Day; the 11th day of November, known as Armistice Day; the 4th Thursday in November, known as Thanksgiving Day; the 25th day of December, known as Christmas Day; and if any of such days is a Sunday, the next day thereafter; each general election day and each day appointed by the President of the United States or by the Governor of this state as a day of general thanksgiving, general fasting and prayer or other general religious observances.

(Res. of 12-16-1996)

Extended hours of operation: 9:00 a. m. to 10:00 p.m. Said parking meters shall be operated in the parking meter zones between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m. on the following streets:

	Church Street, both sides, from the railroad to Sunrise Highway.
	Merrick Road, both sides, from Church Street to South Grove Street.
	Newton Boulevard, both sides, for its entire length.
	South Grove Street, both sides, from Merrick Road to the entrance to Municipal Parking Field No. 2.
	South Main Street, both sides, from Railroad Avenue to Newton Boulevard.
	Sunrise Highway, both sides, from South Main Street to Church Street.

(d)

Extended hours of operation: 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Parking meters shall be operated in the parking meter zones between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m., except Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, at the following locations:

(Res. of 11-21-1977; Res. of 1-16-1978; Res. of 8-7-1978)

	Parking Field No. 10.
	Parking Field No. 29. (Res. of 6-15-1992)

(e)

Three-hour parking meter zones. Parking meters shall be operated in the parking meter zones between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m., for a maximum of three hours, except Sundays and holidays, at the following locations:

(Res. of 11-21-1977))

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 at the beginning of the section.

Sec. 82 Collection of meter receipts.

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.

Sec. 83 Receipts to be deposited in general funds.

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.

Sec. 84 Prohibited acts.

It shall be unlawful and a violation of the provisions of this Article for any person:

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.

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.