[Adopted 10-3-1962 (Ch. 57, Art. VIII, of the 1965 Code); amended in its entirety 5-24-2016 by L.L. No. 4-2016]
The Police Department of this Village is hereby authorized, subject to approval of the Village Board of Trustees by resolution, to establish parking meter zones at locations upon those streets or parts of streets where it is determined upon the basis of a traffic investigation that the installation of parking meters shall be necessary to aid in the regulation, control and inspection of the parking of vehicles.
The Police Department of the Village shall supervise the installation of parking meters in the parking meter zones established as provided in this article upon the curb immediately adjacent to each designated parking space. Said meters shall be capable of being operated, either automatically or mechanically, upon the payment of coins or bills of United States currency, or via debit or credit card, depending upon the type of meter (the "fee").
A. 
Each parking meter shall be designed, constructed, installed and set so the user of the meter shall be advised of the amount of time registered by the fee paid as provided herein.
B. 
Each parking meter shall bear thereon the legend indicating the days and hours when the requirement for fee payment therein shall apply, the amount of the fee payment, and the limited period of time for which parking is lawfully permitted in the parking meter zone in which such meter is located.
The Police Department of the Village shall designate the parking space to each parking meter for which such meter is to be used by signage or appropriate markings on the curb and/or the pavement of the street. Parking meter spaces so designated shall be of appropriate length and width so as to be accessible from the traffic lanes of such street. No person shall park a vehicle in any such designated parking meter space during the restricted or regulated time applicable to the parking meter zone in which such meter is located so that any part of such vehicle occupies more than one such space or protrudes beyond the markings designating such space, except that a vehicle which is of a size too large to be parked within a single designated parking meter zone shall be permitted to occupy two adjoining parking meter spaces when coins shall have been deposited in the parking meter for each space so occupied as is required in this article for the parking of other vehicles in such space.
A. 
No person shall park a vehicle in any parking space for which a meter has been designated during the restricted and regulated time applicable to the parking meter zone in which such space is located unless a payment made as provided in this article shall have been deposited therein for an unexpired interval of time and said meter has been placed in operation.
B. 
No person shall permit a vehicle within his control to be parked in any space for which a meter has been designated during the restricted and regulated time applicable to the parking meter zone in which such space is located while the parking meter or the receipt from a muni-meter for such space indicates that the lawful parking time in such space has expired. This provision shall not apply to the act of parking for the necessary time which is required to deposit immediately thereafter a payment in such meter.
C. 
No person shall park a vehicle in any such parking meter space for a consecutive period of time longer than that limited period of time for which parking is lawfully permitted in the parking meter zone in which such parking meter is located, irrespective of the amount of payment made in such meter.
D. 
The provisions of this section shall not relieve any person from the duty to observe other and more-restrictive provisions of this chapter and in the Vehicle and Traffic Law prohibiting or limiting the stopping, standing or parking of vehicles in specified places or specified times.
No person shall deface, injure, tamper with, open or willfully break, destroy or impair the usefulness of any parking meter.
A. 
The payments required to be made in parking meters as provided in this article are levied and assessed as fees to cover the regulation and control of parking upon public streets; the costs of parking meters; their installation, inspection, supervision, operation, repair and maintenance; control and use of parking spaces; regulating the parking of vehicles in parking meter zones; and the costs of acquiring, establishing, improving, maintaining and operating public off-street parking facilities.
B. 
The payments made in parking meters shall be collected by a duly authorized member of the Police Department of this Village so assigned by the Chief of Police and shall be deposited by him in a special fund to be known as the "Parking Meter Special and Trust Fund."
C. 
The Village Treasurer shall pay from such special fund the costs of parking meters purchased by the Village and installed as provided in this article and expenses incurred for their installation, inspection, service, supervision, repair and maintenance; for making collections from such parking meters; and for the enforcement of the provisions of this article applicable to parking meter zones. The net proceeds of the operation of parking meters in said special fund, after the payment of such costs and expenses, shall be used for parking studies and for the acquisition, establishment, improvement, maintenance and operation of public off-street parking facilities as the Village Board of Trustees shall from time to time direct.
A. 
A schedule of parking meter zones within the district or upon those streets or parts of streets in which the parking of vehicles upon streets or off-street parking lots shall be regulated by parking meters, the hours of parking meter operation, the minimum billing increment, the fee per billing increment and the maximum time period for use of a parking meter shall be established.
B. 
Such schedule of parking meter zones may be amended from time to time by resolution of the Village Board of Trustees.
[1]
Editor's Note: The Schedule of Parking Meter Zones is included as an attachment to this chapter.
Unless otherwise provided by law, or by specific enactment, the penalty for each violation of this article shall be a sum of money not exceeding $100. In addition, unless otherwise provided by law, or by specific enactment, a violation of this article shall constitute disorderly conduct, and the person violating the same shall be a disorderly person.