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1. Parking Lots. The following parking lots and operating hours are
established as parking lots operated by the Borough:
A. Bank Street Lot (Bank Street):
(1)
Open seven days per week, 24 hours per day.
B. Moreland Avenue Municipal Lot (West Moreland Avenue and Orchard Street):
(1)
Open seven days per week, 24 hours per day.
D. Commuter Lot (Moreland Avenue and the railroad):
(1)
Open seven days per week, 24 hours per day.
2. Parking Types. The following types and regulations of parking uses
are established in the parking lots operated by the Borough:
A. Short-term shopper parking (two-hour limit):
B. Short-term shopper parking (three-hour limit):
D. Daily Business District parking:
E. Long-term parking:
(1)
Parking spaces available for parking on a monthly or yearly
rental basis. The rental fee shall be for a calendar month or year
or the part of a calendar month or year remaining after the rental
arrangements are made.
(a)
The rental fee shall be paid in advance to the Borough for the
use of the Borough and after the first month shall be automatically
renewable until the renter notifies the Borough that he wishes to
terminate the rental arrangements. The rental parking spaces shall
be assigned by the Borough.
(b)
The name of the renter of the parking space and/or the numbers
and/or letters on the registration tag of the vehicle entitled to
be parked there shall be recorded and reported to the Chief of Police.
(c)
Spaces set aside for monthly or yearly rentals shall be numbered
signs indicating "Parking by Permit only."
(d)
It shall be unlawful for any person to park any unauthorized
vehicle in a marked rental space.
F. Handicapped restricted:
(1)
Any of the above parking types may be reserved parking spaces
for handicapped and shall designate those spaces by appropriate signs.
(2)
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."
(3)
All provisions, requirements, and restrictions contained in
the other sections of this Part shall apply to vehicles lawfully parked
in reserved parking spaces for handicapped.
3. Parking Fees. The parking fee for each type of parking shall be fixed
from time to time by resolution of the Borough Council.
[Added by Ord. 1025, 3/23/2015]
1. It shall be unlawful for any person to park a vehicle, or to allow
a vehicle to remain parked, in any short-term, metered, and long-term
rental parking lot:
A. For longer than the maximum parking time prescribed by §
15-601 of this Part.
B. At any time when the lot is not in operation and is closed to public
use.
[Added by Ord. 1025, 3/23/2015]
The parking lots established by §
15-601 of 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 kind or class of vehicle in any such lot.
[Added by Ord. 1025, 3/23/2015]
1. Every vehicle parked in a parking lot shall be parked wholly within
the lines bounding or marking the individual parking space assigned
to that vehicle and shall be parked headed into the parking space.
It shall be unlawful for any person:
A. To park a vehicle in a space not rented by him.
B. To park a vehicle otherwise than as required by this section.
C. To park a vehicle elsewhere than in a designated individual parking
space. Prohibited areas include, but are not limited to, the access
and exit driveways, turning and maneuvering spaces, and the through-ways
of the parking lots.
[Added by Ord. 1025, 3/23/2015]
The number and placement of parking types shall be determined
by the Borough Manager with recommendations from the Chief of Police.
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1. Placement and Characteristics of Parking Meters.
A. Individual 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.
(1)
For each parking meter, there shall be a clear indication, through
use of a directional arrow, or an identification as to number with
the parking space, to show which individual parking space it serves.
(2)
Each parking meter shall indicate by a proper legend the parking
rate, 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 on and by its display the duration of legal parking,
and, upon the expiration of that period, shall indicate illegal parking
or overparking.
B. A centrally located collection system, or kiosk, may be used for
the purpose of regulating parking spaces in the Borough.
(1)
The centrally located collection system shall be clearly identified
as such.
(2)
There shall be a clear indication, through use of a receipt,
or an identification as to number with the parking space, to show
which parking space is being used.
(3)
The receipt issued by the collection system must be placed on
the dashboard of the vehicle occupying the space that corresponds
to the receipt. This receipt shall be clearly visible from the exterior
of the vehicle. The transaction is not deemed complete until the valid
receipt is placed on the dashboard as required by this section.
2. Payment for Parking in Parking Lots; Overtime Parking Unlawful.
A. Whenever a vehicle is to be parked in any space regulated by a coin-operated
parking meter, at any time when the parking lot is open for use and
the parking 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 parking meter in operation, the parking space may be lawfully
occupied by the vehicle for the time indicated on the meter.
B. Whenever a vehicle is to be parked in any space regulated by a centrally
located collection system, or kiosk, at any time when the parking
lot is open for use and the kiosk is in operation, the driver of the
vehicle, upon entering a parking space, shall immediately deposit,
or cause to be deposited, at the designated kiosk, proper currency
of the United States of America as specified on the kiosk. Proper
payment shall include payment by credit card or other proper electronic
payment if so accepted at the kiosk. Upon the deposit of the proper
payment at the kiosk, and placing the issued receipt on the dashboard
of the corresponding vehicle in a visible location, the parking space
may be lawfully occupied by the vehicle for the time indicated on
the receipt.
C. If any vehicle remains in any metered parking space for such length
of time beyond the metered time, that vehicle shall be considered
as being parked overtime, and the parking of a vehicle overtime shall
be a violation of this Part; provided that every hour that a vehicle
remains parked at a meter showing a violation shall constitute a separate
violation of this Part.
3. Unlawful to Deposit Substitute for Coin in Coin-Operated Parking
Meters. It shall be unlawful for any person to deposit in any coin-operated
parking meter installed under the provisions of this Part any slug
or other substitute for a coin of the United States of America.
4. Unlawful to Remain Parked at a Parking Meter Showing Violation. 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 were deposited in that meter for the parking
of that vehicle.
5. Unlawful to Tamper with Parking Meter. 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, however,
that nothing in this section shall apply to the servicing or opening
of parking meters by officers, employees or police officers of the
Borough under the direction of the Chief of Police or Borough Council.
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1. Any person who violates any section of this Part shall be issued
a notice of violation (parking ticket), which shall be placed on or
attached to the vehicle. The notice of violation shall include the
following information:
A. A description of the violation of this Part for which the operator
or owner of the vehicle is being cited.
B. The parking lot name and meter number or space number, if applicable.
C. The date and time that the notice of violation was issued.
D. The state license number on the vehicle.
E. Instructions to the owner or operator that if the owner or operator
will report to the office of the Chief of Police and pay, for the
use of the Borough:
(1)
For parking at over permitted time limits, the sum of $25.
(2)
For parking in a space reserved for handicapped without display
of an authorized handicapped parking permit: as per the Vehicle Code.
(3)
For not being parked within the marked spaces, the sum of $25.
(4)
If the said fine is paid within five days, that act will save the violator from the penalties prescribed in §
15-607, Subsection
2, of this Part, and the sum of the penalty will be reduced to $15.
2. Any vehicle owner or driver in violation of any section of this Part
and who fails to report to the Chief of Police and pay the sum for
the use of the Borough as instructed in Subsection 1E shall be cited
within 15 days of the violation and, upon conviction of the stated
violation, shall be guilty of a summary offense and may be sentenced
to pay a fine of not more than $600 and/or undergo imprisonment for
a term not to exceed 90 days.