[Ord. 995, 12/10/2003; as amended by Ord. 1046, 11/2/2011, § 1]
1.
Metered Borough parking lots are established at the following locations
in the Borough:
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Lot
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Location
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Maximum Parking Time
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Days In Operation
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Hours in Operation
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Municipal parking lot
[Amended by Ord. No. 1065, 7/7/2016] |
Commercial Avenue and Freeport Road
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Maximum time shown on meter
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Monday through Saturday, except Sundays and legal holidays
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9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
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Freeport Road and Water Works Road Lot
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Freeport Road and Water Works Road
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Maximum time shown on meter
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Monday through Saturday, except Sundays and legal holidays
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9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
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2.
The fees, rates and charges for the parking meters at the above locations
shall be set from time to time by resolution of Borough Council.
[Ord. 995, 12/10/2003]
The Borough 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 Part, 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."
[Ord. 995, 12/10/2003]
1.
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 Part for
any person:
[Ord. 995, 12/10/2003]
1.
It shall be unlawful for any person to park a vehicle in any metered
parking lot:
[Ord. 995, 12/10/2003]
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 Part. Provided, every hour that a vehicle remains
parked at a meter showing a violation shall constitute a separate
violation of this Part.
[Ord. 995, 12/10/2003]
It shall be unlawful for any person to deposit in any parking
meter installed under the provisions of this Part any slug or other
substitute for a coin of the United States of America.
[Ord. 995, 12/10/2003]
It shall be unlawful and a violation of this Part for any person
to permit a vehicle to remain in a parking space adjacent to a parking
meter installed under this Part 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.
[Ord. 995, 12/10/2003]
It shall be unlawful and a violation of this Part 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 Part. Provided, nothing in this section shall apply to the
servicing or opening of parking meters by officers, employees or police
officers of the Borough of Aspinwall under the direction of the Police
Chief or Borough Council.
[Ord. 995, 12/10/2003]
The metered parking lots established by this Part 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.
[Ord. 995, 12/10/2003; as amended by Ord. 1027, 3/12/2008, § 4]
1.
It shall be the duty of the police officers and parking enforcement
personnel of the Borough of Aspinwall, acting in accordance with the
direction of the Chief of Police, to report:
A.
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 Part.
B.
The date and hour of the violation.
C.
The license number of the vehicle.
D.
Any other facts, the knowledge of which is necessary for a thorough
understanding of the circumstances attending the violation.
2.
Unless otherwise indicated, vehicles parked in violation of this Part shall be automatically required to pay a fee of $10 for every two hours the vehicle remains parked in violation, not to exceed $50 per day. 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 Part, and instructing the owner or driver that if he will report to the office of the Chief of Police and pay, for the use of the Borough, the total amount owed as indicated on the notice or notices within 24 hours after the time of the notice, or will place the total amount owed as indicated on the notice or notices enclosed within the envelope provided, in any of the special parking fine boxes installed at various locations within the Borough within that time limit, that act will save the violator from prosecution and from payment of the fine prescribed in § 15-511, Subsection 1, of this Part. If this sum is not paid within 14 days after the time of notice, the owner or driver of the vehicle in violation shall be subject to an additional $20 fee. If the total amount owed as indicated on the notice in addition to the $20 fee is not paid within 30 days, then the provisions of § 15- 211, Subsection 1, of this chapter shall apply.
[Amended by Ord. No. 1084, 8/11/2021]
[Ord. 995, 12/10/2003; as amended by Ord. 1027, 3/12/2008, § 5]
1.
Any person who violates any provision of this Part, with the exception of §§ 15-603 and 15-608, and who fails to pay the fine set forth in § 15-610, shall be cited within 31 days of the violation, and, upon conviction, shall be sentenced to pay an additional fine of not more than $40 and costs.
[Amended by Ord. No. 1084, 8/11/2021]
2.
Any person who violates any provision of § 15-603 of this Part shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than (a) $5 for parking across any marked metered space lines plus costs, and (b) $10 for occupying two metered spaces with one vehicle plus costs.
3.
Any person who violates any provision of § 15-608 of this Part shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than $100 nor more than $600 and costs and, in default of payment of fine and costs, to imprisonment to the extent permitted by law for the punishment of summary offenses.
4.
A separate offense shall arise for each hour or portion thereof in
which a violation of this Part is found to exist or for each section
of this Part found to have been violated.
