Parking meters installed in the parking lots shall be placed immediately adjacent to the individual parking spaces that shall be marked off and maintained in the lots. Each parking meter shall indicate by a proper legend the parking rate and the maximum parking time established by §
380-54, and, when the parking space is occupied and the parking meter put into operation by the insertion of one or more coins, the parking meter shall indicate the duration of legal parking, and, upon the expiration of that period, shall indicate illegal parking or over-parking.
The City Council, at its discretion, may provide, at convenient
and suitable locations in any one or more of the metered parking lots,
reserved parking spaces for handicapped, and shall designate those
spaces by appropriate signs. It shall be unlawful, and a violation
of this article, for any person to park in any such reserved parking
space any vehicle unless that vehicle bears or displays either a handicapped
registration plate, a handicapped parking placard, a disabled veteran
registration plate or a disabled veteran placard.
Lines and/or markings shall be painted or placed upon the surface
of the metered parking lots, adjacent to each parking meter, for the
purpose of delineating the parking space for which that meter shall
be used. Every vehicle parked adjacent to 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:
A. To park a vehicle across any such line or marking.
B. To park a vehicle in such a position that the vehicle shall not be
within the area so delineated by the lines or markings.
C. To park a vehicle elsewhere in any such lot other than in an individual
parking space adjacent to a parking meter.
It shall be unlawful for any person to park a vehicle in any
metered parking lot:
A. With any part of the vehicle touching the meter post or head or the
raised base or barrier on which meters are erected.
Whenever a vehicle is to be parked in any metered parking lot,
at any time when the lot is open for use and the meters are to be
in operation, the driver of the vehicle, upon entering the parking
space, shall immediately deposit, or cause to be deposited, in the
proper 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 remains in any such parking
space for such length of time that the meter indicates that the lawful
parking time has expired, that vehicle shall be considered as being
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 for any person to deposit in any parking
meter installed under the provisions of this article any slug or other
substitute for a coin of the United States of America.
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.
The metered parking lots established by this article shall be
for the use of passenger cars, passenger vans and pickup trucks only,
and it shall be unlawful for any person to park any other type of
vehicle in any of those lots.
The Council of the City of Lock Haven hereby authorizes the
issuance of parking permits to those making application therefor under
the terms, provisions and conditions hereinafter established.
A. Permits shall be issued by the Lock Haven City Police Department
and may be obtained at City Hall, 20 East Church Street, on Monday
through Friday, between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.
B. Permits will be issued for the lots listed below.
[Amended 12-12-2016 by Ord. No. 963]
(1) Permit fees shall be at the rate(s) set from time to time by Council
by resolution and shall be valid for the entire calendar month for
which it was issued:
(a)
Lot No. 1 (Lower Church Street lot).
(b)
Lot No. 2 (Upper Church Street lot).
(c)
Lot No. 3 (Water Street lot).
(d)
Lot No. 4 (City Hall parking lot).
(e)
Lot No. 5 (beach parking lot).
(2) Permits may be purchased on a monthly, quarterly or yearly basis.
Permits for the subsequent year can only be purchased during the month
of December of the preceding year.
C. Holders of 24-hour permits for lots are entitled to park only in
a designated 24-hour permit stall in the particular lot for which
the permit is issued. Holders of eight-hour permits for lots are entitled
to park at any metered stall in the particular lot for which the
permit is issued if prominently displaying the valid permit for that
lot. Holders of eight-hour permits may not park in designed 24-hour
permit stalls, through the expiration date shown on the permit. It
does not entitle the holder to a reserved parking stall or to any
particular parking stall and does not guarantee availability of a
parking stall at any given time within the particular lot for which
it is issued. The permit does not allow parking within the area of
any City street or on private property. The holders of permits for
Lots 4 and 5 (City Hall lot and beach lot) are entitled only to park
within the hours of 8:00 a.m. through 5:00 p.m. within any stall signed
for permit parking in the particular lot for which the permit is issued,
through the expiration date shown on the permit. An eight-hour permit
entitles the holder to park at any metered stall in the particular
lot for which the permit is issued without placing coins in that
meter. A 24-hour permit does not entitle the holder to park at any
metered stall without placing coins in that meter. The permit does
not allow parking within the area of any City street or on private
property.
[Amended 1-16-2017 by Ord. No. 966]
D. All vehicles that are owned by the applicant may be covered by one
permit if the applicant provides the appropriate license plate numbers
to the City at the time the permit is issued. Vehicles that are not
identified on the permit cannot use the permit. Should one permit
be issued for two or more vehicles, it is the holder's responsibility
to insure that the permit is placed in the vehicle that is parked
in a City lot.
E. The permit must be prominently displayed on the vehicle dashboard
so the license plate number(s) and the expiration date can be readily
seen by the enforcement officer. Holders of permits that are not left
in clear view on the dashboard will be ticketed.
F. It shall be unlawful and a violation of this section for any person
to permit a vehicle to remain parked in any area designated as permit
parking only, without displaying a proper, valid parking permit for
that particular lot. The Lock Haven City Police Department reserves
the right to ticket, tow and impound any vehicle found to be parked
in an area designated for permit parking only that does not display
the proper parking permit. Vehicles will be ticketed and towed to
an impoundment facility designated by the Lock Haven City Police Department.
All expenses related to the towing of vehicles and any storage charges
are the responsibility of the owner. Illegally parked vehicles may
be towed without notice to the operator, registrant or owner.
G. All fines, towing charges and storage charges must be paid in full
before vehicle will be released to the operator, registrant or owner.