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No. 482]
The following words and terms, where used in this article, shall
have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates
otherwise:
A device intended to assist public authorities in enforcing
ordinances limiting the time during which vehicles may be parked on
any street, road or highway within a parking meter zone.
Highways, streets and roads, or portions thereof, located
in the Borough of Dallastown on which parking meters are to be installed,
operated and used.
The Borough Manager is hereby directed and authorized to provide for the marking off of individual parking spaces in the parking meter zones designated and described in Schedule XIX (§ 212-81), said parking spaces to be designated by lines painted or marked on the curbing or surface of the street or lot. At each space so marked off, it shall be unlawful to park any vehicle in such a way that said vehicle shall not be entirely within the limits of the space so designated.
The Dallastown Borough Council shall provide for the installation
of meters, including curb and street marking lines, regulation and
operation thereof, and shall cause said meters to be maintained in
good workable condition. Meters shall be placed upon the curb next
to individual parking places and meters shall be so constructed as
to display a signal showing legal parking upon deposit thereof of
the proper coin, or coins of the United States as indicated by instructions
on said meter, and for a period of time conforming to the parking
limits of the Borough of Dallastown, said signal to remain in evidence
until expiration of said parking period so designated, at which time
a change of signal or some other mechanical operation shall indicate
expiration of said parking period.
The Borough is hereby vested with the authority to enter into
a contract for the purchase and installation of parking meters and
to provide payment therefor exclusively from the receipts obtained
by the Borough for their operation and that said means of payment
shall be in addition to any other purchasing powers heretofore granted
by the Borough or its charter or by the laws of the State of Pennsylvania.
A.
When any vehicle shall be parked next to a parking meter, the owner
or operator of said vehicle shall park within the area designated
by the curb or street marking lines as indicated for parallel or diagonal
parking and upon entering said parking space shall immediately deposit
in said meter one or more $0.05 coins of the United States as indicated
by instructions on said meter. It shall be unlawful for any person
to fail to park within said designated area or fail or neglect to
so deposit the proper coin or coins.
B.
Said parking space may then be used by such vehicle during the legal
parking parking limit provided by the ordinances and regulation of
the Borough, and said vehicle shall be considered as unlawfully parked
if it remains in said space beyond the legal parking limit and/or
when said parking meter displays a signal showing such illegal parking.
C.
It shall be unlawful for any person to cause or permit any vehicle
registered in his name to be unlawfully parked as set out in this
section. No owner or operator of any vehicle shall cause, allow or
permit such vehicle to be parked overtime or beyond the period of
the legal parking time established for any parking meter zone.
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No. 482]
D.
Where two parking meters are mounted on a single post, in all cases
where the length of the vehicle is required to stand parallel to the
curb, the front end of the vehicle shall always be pointed in the
direction required of vehicular traffic on the side of the street
where the vehicle is parked with the rear end of such parked vehicle
at or immediately adjacent to the meter mounted forward in the aforesaid
direction of vehicular traffic, and with the front end of such other
parked vehicle at or immediately adjacent to the meter mounted rearward
in the aforesaid direction of vehicular traffic.
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No. 482]
E.
No person shall deposit or cause to be deposited in any parking meter
a coin for the purpose of increasing or extending the parking time
of any vehicle beyond the legal parking time established for any parking
meter zone.
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No. 482]
The fee to be charged for parking shall be the then current
schedule of rates and charges for the use of the meters adopted by
the Borough Council. Borough Council may establish or amend said schedule
by resolution.
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The scheduled hours of operation of the meters in all parking
zones shall be between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m., Monday
through Thursday, and from 9:00 a.m. until 9:00 p.m. on Friday, and
from 9:00 a.m. until 6:00 p.m. on Saturday, unless the Council shall
adopt a resolution establishing a revised schedule of hours of operation
which shall thereafter be the effective hours.
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No. 482]
Vehicles may be parked at a parking meter without depositing
money in the meter on Sundays and on the following holidays: New Year's
Day, Memorial Day, Fourth of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas
Day and such other holidays as may hereafter be designated by the
Mayor by official proclamation.
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No. 482]
Nothing in this article shall be construed as prohibiting the
Borough from providing for free parking space for loading and unloading,
for bus stops, for taxicab stands or for other matters of a similar
nature.
Proof of registration of a motor vehicle and proof of a violation
of this article shall be construed as prima facie proof that the registered
owner of such vehicle was the user or operator thereof at the time
of the violation charged.
It shall be unlawful to deposit or cause to be deposited in
any parking meter any slug, device or metallic substitute for a coin
of the United States.
It shall be unlawful for any person to tamper with, open, willfully
break or destroy any parking meter.
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No. 482]
A.
The position of Parking Meter Attendant, for the enforcement of the
parking provisions of this article, is hereby established for the
Borough of Dallastown.
B.
Police officers of the provider of police service to the Borough
shall be empowered to enforce the provisions of this article and to
issue citations and parking tickets for violations thereof. The Parking
Meter Attendant shall be authorized, by the Chief of the Police Department
providing police service to Dallastown, as a law enforcement officer,
without any further pay, benefits or compensation of any kind from,
by or through such Police Department, for the sole purpose of enforcing
parking violations hereunder, and shall be so sworn in before the
District Justice, and thereupon may issue citations and parking tickets
for such parking violations only.
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No. 482]
In addition to the foregoing, enforcement of the provisions
of this article may be by the Mayor of the Borough of Dallastown.
In the event of an emergency, any of the provisions of this article
may be temporarily suspended by the Mayor, who shall have the authority
to adopt and enforce temporary rules and regulations regulating traffic
during such emergency as may be necessary and appropriate.
A.
Upon the display of a valid parking permit, as herein after provided,
a motor vehicle may be parked at any parking space regulated by a
parking meter lawfully installed within the Borough of Dallastown
without depositing in such meter the otherwise required fare for parking
thereat.
B.
Such parking permit shall be displayed by attaching the same to the
rearview mirror of the vehicle so as to be readily visible through
the windshield of the vehicle from the outside.
C.
A parking permit may be purchased from the Secretary of the Borough
at the then-prevailing rate and shall be valid only for the calendar
year during which it is purchased, which shall be clearly stated thereon.
The Dallastown Borough Council shall establish the price for such
parking permit from time to time as it shall deem appropriate, and
shall provide for proration of the same on a quarter-annual basis.
D.
It shall be unlawful to park a motor vehicle in a parking space regulated
by a parking meter in the Borough of Dallastown without either displaying
a valid parking permit in the manner hereinbefore set forth or to
deposit the required coin or coins in such parking meter. Any person,
firm or corporation who shall violate or permit or allow anyone to
violate this section or any part hereof shall be subject, upon summary
conviction thereof, to the penalties prescribed by law.
A.
Any person or other entity who shall violate or permit or allow a violation of § 212-53 of this article shall pay a fine of $10 to the Borough. If such fine is not paid within 24 hours of its issuance, an additional penalty of $5 shall be added, together with the cost of mailing notices to such person or entity, or in default of payment of such fine and costs, to be imprisoned in the York County Prison for a period not to exceed 10 days.
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B.
Any person or other entity who shall violate or participate in the violation of § 212-55 or 212-56 of this article shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than $25 nor more than $600 or, in default of payment thereof, to be imprisoned in York County Prison for a period not to exceed 30 days.
The fee required to be deposited in said meter is hereby levied
as a police regulation and inspection fee to cover the cost of providing
parking spaces, parking meters and installation and maintenance thereof,
the cost of regulation and inspection, operation, control and use
of the parking meter spaces and zones created therein, for the regulation
and control of traffic moving in and out of, and parking in, said
parking spaces and zones so created, and for the cost of any resultant
traffic administration expense.
