[Amended 11-21-2005 by Ord. No. 752; 5-2-2011 by Ord. No. 879; 4-29-2013 by Ord. No. 921; 12-12-2016 by Ord. No. 963; 1-16-2017 by Ord. No. 966]
Parking meter zones are established upon and along certain streets in the City as listed below. Parking meter fees shall be at the rate(s) set from time to time by Council by resolution.
Street
Side
Maximum Parking Time
(hours)
Between
Bellefonte Avenue
South
2 1/4
Corning Street and East Park Street, 1 space
Bellefonte Avenue
North
2 1/4
Corning Street and East Park Street
Bellefonte Avenue
North
2 1/4
East Main Street and Willard's Alley
Bellefonte Avenue
South
2 1/4
East Park Street and Commerce Street, between railroad and West Park Street
Bellefonte Avenue
North
2 1/4
South Jones Street and Spring Street, 1 space
Bellefonte Avenue
North
2 1/4
Spring Street and North Jones Street
Bellefonte Avenue
Noth
2 1/4
West Park Street and Commerce Street
East Church Street
Both
2 1/4
Fallon Alley and North Jay Street
East Church Street
Both
2 1/4
Fallon Alley and North Jay Street
East Church Street
Both
2 1/4
North Liberty Street and North Jay Street
East Main Street
Both
2 1/4
Canal park and Locust Alley
East Main Street
Both
2 1/4
North Jay Street and Henderson Street
East Main Street
Both
2 1/4
North Jay Street and Canal Park
East Main Street
Both
2 1/4
North Jay Street and Mill Street
East Main Street
South
2 1/4
North Jay Street and North Grove Street, 1 space
East Park Street
West
2 1/4
Bellefonte Avenue and James Alley
East Water Street
Both
2 1/4
North Jay Street and North Vesper Street
East Water Street
South
2 1/4
North Jay Street and Sarah's Alley, 1 space
East Water Street
North
2 1/4
North Jay Street and Sarah's Alley, 2 spaces
East Water Street
Both
2 1/4
North Vesper Street and Mill Street
First Street
Both
2 1/4
West Church Street and Bellefonte Avenue
Mill Street
East
2 1/4
West Main Street and West Water Street
Nesbit Lane
East
2 1/4
Jordan Alley and West Water Street
Nesbit Lane
East
2 1/4
West Main Street and Jordan Alley
North Grove Street
East
2 1/4
East Water Street and Susquehanna River
North Grove Street
Both
2 1/4
Jordan Alley and East Water Street
North Grove Street
West
2 1/4
Main Street and Jordan Alley, 1 space
North Grove Street
Both
2 1/4
Willard's Alley and East Church Street
North Grove Street
Both
2 1/4
Willard's Alley and Jordan Alley
North Vesper Street
Both
2 1/4
Willard's Alley and East Church Street
Vesper Street
Both
2 1/4
Willard's Alley and East Main Street
Vesper Street
Both
2 1/4
Willard's Alley and Jordan Alley
West Church Street
North
2 1/4
Bellefonte Avenue and First Street, 1 space
West Church Street
Both
2 1/4
Bellefonte Avenue and First Street
West Church Street
Both
2 1/4
North Liberty Street and North Jay Street
West Main Street
North
2 1/4
First Street and Nesbit Lane, 5 spaces
West Main Street
South
2 1/4
Mill Street and Nesbit Lane, 1 space
West Main Street
Both
2 1/4
Mill Street and Nesbit Lane
West Main Street
Both
2 1/4
Nesbit Lane and First Street
West Water Street
Both
2 1/4
North Vesper Street and Nesbit Lane
Parking meters installed in the parking meter zones established by § 380-42 shall be placed upon the curb or sidewalk, and immediately adjacent to the individual parking spaces described in § 380-45. Each parking meter shall be placed or set so as to show that the parking space adjacent to that meter is or is not legally occupied. Each parking meter installed shall indicate by a proper legend the legal parking time established by the City and when the adjacent space is occupied by a vehicle, the parking meter shall indicate on and by its dial and pointer the duration of the period of legal parking and, on the expiration of that period, shall indicate illegal parking or over-parking.
Lines and/or markings shall be painted or placed upon the curb, sidewalk or roadway adjacent to each parking meter for the purpose of delineating the parking space for which that meter shall be used. Every vehicle parked at 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 article for any person to park a vehicle across any such line or marking, or to park a vehicle in such a position that the vehicle is not wholly within the area designated by those lines or markings.
[Amended 12-12-2016 by Ord. No. 963]
Whenever a vehicle is to be parked in any space adjacent to a parking meter, at any time in the period of limited parking as prescribed by § 380-43, the driver of the vehicle, upon entering the parking space, shall immediately deposit, or cause to be deposited, in that 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 shall remain in any such parking space for any length of time that the meter shall indicate by proper signal that the lawful parking time has expired, that vehicle shall be considered as having been parked overtime, and the parking of a vehicle overtime shall be a violation of this article. Provided, every hour that a vehicle remains parked at a meter showing a violation shall constitute a separate violation of this article.
It shall be unlawful and a violation of this article for any person to deposit or cause to be deposited in any parking meter installed under the provisions of this article any coin for the purpose of increasing or extending the parking time of any vehicle beyond the legal parking time established for that zone.
It shall be unlawful, and a violation of this article, for any person to permit a vehicle to remain in a parking space adjacent to a parking meter installed under this article 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 article, 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 article. Provided, nothing in this section shall apply to the servicing or opening of parking meters by officers, employees or police officers of the City under the direction of the Chief of Police or City Council.
A. 
It shall be the duty of the police officers and parking enforcement personnel of the City, acting in accordance with the directions of the Chief of Police, to report:
(1) 
The number of each parking meter that indicates that a vehicle occupying the adjacent parking space is, or has been, parked in violation of any provision of this article.
(2) 
The date and hour of the violation.
(3) 
The license number of the vehicle.
(4) 
Any other facts, the knowledge of which is necessary for a thorough understanding of the circumstances attending the violation.
B. 
The police officer or other person making the report shall also place on or attach to the vehicle a notice to the owner or driver of the vehicle that the vehicle was parked in violation of this article, and instructing the owner or driver that if he will report to the office of the City Treasurer and pay, for the use of the City, the sum of $5 within five calendar days after the time of the notice, or will place the sum of $5 enclosed within the envelope provided, in any of the special parking fine boxes installed at various locations within the City within the time limit, that act will save the violator from prosecution and from payment of the fine prescribed in § 380-52A.
[Amended 6-21-2004 by Ord. No. 708]
A. 
Any person who violates any provision of this article, with the exception of § 380-50, and who fails to pay the fine set forth in § 380-51, shall be cited within 30 days of the violation and, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than $15 and costs. The City Manager or his designee shall have sole discretion to waive fines and determination will be made on individual merit.
[Amended 2-23-2015 by Ord. No. 942]
B. 
Any person who violates any provision of § 380-50 shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than $600 and costs and, in default of payment of fine and costs, to imprisonment for not more than 30 days.
C. 
Maximum amounts of fines for violations of various parking restrictions:
[Added 6-28-2004 by Res. No. 963]
Fine When Issued
Fine After 5 Days
Fine After 10 Days
Off-street-meter violations
$3
$5
$6
On-street meter violations
$5
$7
$8
Hydrant
$15
$20
$25
No-parking zone
$15
$20
$25
Opposing traffic
$15
$20
$25
Blocking driveway
$15
$20
$25
Within 20 feet of intersection
$15
$20
$25
Double parking
$15
$20
$25
More than 12 inches from curb
$10
$15
$20
Other
$15
$20
$25
A. 
By resolution, the City Council may temporarily suspend the provisions of this article requiring coin deposit in meters and establishing a maximum parking time at meters.
B. 
The City shall have authority to establish no-parking or special-purpose parking zones within any parking meter zone, and to remove parking meters from those areas as previously installed there, and the provisions of this article shall not apply in those areas where no-parking or special-purpose parking is in effect.