[Amended 4-27-2023 by Ord. No. 23-01]
1.
The following are established as the metered parking lots established
by this Borough of Sharpsburg:
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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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13th Street and Main Street
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Monday through Saturday
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6:00 a.m. until 8:00 p.m.
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13th Street and North Canal Street
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Monday through Saturday
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6:00 a.m. until 8:00 p.m.
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2.
The parking meters in the metered lots shall be in operation, the
parking lots shall be open for parking and the provisions of this
part regulating the operation of parking meters and establishing parking
time limits shall be in force on the days and between the hours prescribed
for the individual lots. But on Sundays and legal holidays, no parking
time limit shall apply and the payment of meters shall not be required.
It shall be unlawful for any person to park a vehicle or to allow the same to remain parked in a parking meter lot as established by § 15-601 for longer than 12 hours. The maximum parking time as set forth in this § 15-602 may be amended by resolution, from time to time, by members of Council, and shall be so indicated on the legend of the parking meters.
[Amended 4-27-2023 by Ord. No. 23-01]
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. For each parking meter there shall be a clear indication, through use of a directional arrow, or an identification as to number within the parking space, to show which individual parking space it serves. Each parking meter shall indicate by a proper legend the parking rate, as established by resolution of Borough Council and available in the Borough of Sharpsburg Fee Schedule, and the maximum parking time established by § 15-601 of this part, 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 dial and pointer the duration of legal parking and, upon the expiration of that period, shall indicate illegal parking or over-parking. Parking may also be paid through a Borough-provided payment mechanism instead of using coins.
The Borough of Sharpsburg, 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.
Council may, by resolution, adopt and approve the issuance of parking permits to be used at metered parking lots. The owners of said registered vehicles shall affix and cause to be conspicuously displayed the parking permit stickers to the back of the interior rearview mirror facing the front of the vehicle and shall be exempt from the requirements of §§ 15-602, 15-609 and 15-611 of this part.
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:
It shall be unlawful for any person to park a vehicle in any
metered parking lot:
[Amended 4-27-2023 by Ord. No. 23-01]
The rates for parking in parking spaces in metered parking lot(s)
shall be determined by resolution of Borough Council and is available
in the Borough of Sharpsburg Fee Schedule. The parking rates shall
be placed on the meters installed in said lot(s).
[Amended 4-27-2023 by Ord. No. 23-01]
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, or pay for parking
using a payment mechanism designated by the Borough. Upon the payment
in the parking meter or using a Borough-provided alternate payment
mechanism, the parking space may be lawfully occupied by the vehicle
for the time indicated on the meter or alternate payment mechanism.
If any vehicle remains in any such parking space for such length of
time that the meter or payment mechanism 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.
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.
[Amended 4-27-2023 by Ord. No. 23-01]
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 the vehicle has been parked there
beyond the period of time prescribed for that parking space or beyond
the time that was purchased by either depositing a coin in the meter
or submitting payment with a Borough-provided payment mechanism.
[Amended 4-27-2023 by Ord. No. 23-01]
It shall be unlawful and a violation of this part for any person
to deposit or to cause to be deposited in any parking meter, as established
by this part, any coin for the purpose of increasing or extending
the parking time of any vehicle beyond the legal parking time in a
parking meter lot. It shall be unlawful and a violation of this part
for any person to submit a payment or to cause a payment to be submitted
using a Borough-provided payment mechanism for the purpose of increasing
or extended the parking time of any vehicle beyond the legal parking
time in a parking meter lot.
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 Sharpsburg under the direction of the Chief
of Police or Borough of Sharpsburg.
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.
[Amended 4-27-2023 by Ord. No. 23-01]
1.
It shall be the duty of the police officers and parking enforcement
personnel of the Borough of Sharpsburg, 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.
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 of Sharpsburg, the sum of $10 within five business days after the time of the notice, or will place the sum of $10 enclosed within an envelope in any of the special parking fine boxes installed at various locations within the Borough of Sharpsburg within that time limit, that act will save the violator from prosecution and from payment of the fine prescribed in § 15-616, Subsection 1, of this part.
[Amended 4-27-2023 by Ord. No. 23-01]
