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Editor's Note: This article, Ch. XVII, Part 2 of the 1971
Code of Ordinances, was derived from Ord. No. 194, adopted 3-2-1942,
as amended by Ord. No. 304(3), adopted 4-13-1971.
[Amended 7-8-1952 by Ord.
No. 219; 6-19-1990 by Ord. No. 453; 11-19-2013 by Ord. No. 666]
A.
The following streets and portions thereof, in the Borough of Tamaqua,
are hereby designated as parking meter zones:
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Street
|
Side
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Between
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|---|---|---|---|
|
Berwick Street
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East and west
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Broad Street and Rowe Street
| |
|
Broad Street
|
North and south
|
Greenwood Street and Swatara Street
| |
|
Center Street
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East
|
Broad Street and Cedar Street
| |
|
Hunter Street Parking Lot
| |||
|
Mauch Chunk Street
|
East and west
|
Broad Street and Pine Street
| |
|
Nescopec Street
|
East and west
|
Cottage Avenue and Rowe Street
| |
|
Nescopec Street Parking Lot
| |||
|
North Railroad Street
|
East
|
Broad Street and Biddle Street
| |
|
North Railroad Street Parking Lot
| |||
|
Pine Street
|
East and west
|
Broad Street and Mauch Chunk Street
| |
|
South Railroad Street
|
West
|
West Broad Street and Spruce Street
|
B.
It shall be unlawful for any person to park a vehicle in any of the
said parking meter zones, or to allow the same to remain parked therein,
at any time between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Monday through
Saturday, and for longer than the time hereinafter designated; provided
the provisions of this chapter limiting parking time in parking meter
zones and requiring the deposit of a coin or coins in parking meters,
shall not be applicable Sunday, or on New Year's Day, Memorial Day,
Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day or Christmas.
On the streets so designated, the Borough Council shall cause
the designation, by appropriate markings, of individual parking spaces,
adjoining each of which parking spaces shall be erected a parking
meter which, upon the deposit of a coin as hereinafter provided, will
indicate the duration of the legal parking period and the time when
such legal period shall have elapsed.
[Amended 3-20-1990 by Ord. No. 452; 11-19-2013 by Ord. No. 666]
In order that the police officers may properly compute the time
during which a vehicle is parked, the owner or operator shall, during
the period of limited parking, immediately upon entering a parking
space, deposit the appropriate denomination of the United States coinage
in the parking meter adjoining said parking space, and cause the meter
to operate in accordance with the instructions printed on said meter.
Failure to deposit the requisite coin or to cause the parking meter
to operate shall constitute a violation of this chapter.
It shall be unlawful for any person to cause, allow, permit
or suffer any such vehicle registered in his or her name to be parked
in a parking meter zone herein designated, or to be hereinafter designated,
in violation of the provisions of this chapter.
It shall be unlawful to park any vehicle across any line or
marking designating a parking space or to park said vehicle in any
way that the same shall not be wholly within a parking space as designated
by said markings.
It shall be unlawful to deface, or tamper with, damage, open
or wilfully break, destroy or impair the usefulness of any parking
meter installed under the terms of this chapter.
Nothing contained in this chapter or in any ordinance hereinafter
establishing parking meter zones shall be construed to permit parking
of vehicles in those spaces within any zone, in which by other ordinances
of the Borough, parking is prohibited.
It shall be the duty of the Mayor to collect, at intervals,
as shall be directed by the Borough Council, all moneys deposited
in parking meters under the provisions of this article. The Mayor
shall make monthly reports of the sum collected from each parking
meter and he shall, if necessary, be assisted by the Borough Secretary,
as directed by Borough Council, in the collection and reporting and
accounting for the sums collected from such parking meters.
[Amended 1-11-1972 by Ord. No. 314; 3-20-1990 by Ord. No. 452; 1-17-2012 by Ord. No. 653]
Upon any person violating any provisions of this article, the
police officers or the meter persons of the Borough may place a parking
ticket upon the vehicle stating the time and nature of the violation,
and notifying such violator that he shall pay the prescribed amount
for the violation indicated:
A.
Parking meter violation: $10.
B.
Parking in prohibited zone: $25.
C.
Parking over maximum time allowed: $10.
D.
Parking in way of street sweeper: $25.
E.
Parking obstructing snow removal: $25.
F.
Parking in fire zone: $25.
G.
Parking in violation of Pennsylvania Motor Vehicle Code, as specified
by law.[1] If such violator shall fail to pay the prescribed fine
within 72 hours of the date of the violation, the police officer may
issue a citation, and upon conviction thereof, such violator shall
be sentenced to pay a fine of $75 plus the costs of prosecution, and
in default of payment of such fine and costs, imprisonment for not
more than five days.
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Editor's Note: See 75 Pa.C.S.A. § 101 et seq.
