[Adopted as Sec. 6.06 of the Codification]
The following words and phrases when used in this article shall have the meanings set forth below:
OPERATOR
Includes every individual who shall operate a vehicle as the owner thereof, or as agent, employee or permittee of the owner or who is in actual physical control of the vehicle.
PARKING METER
A mechanical device or meter placed or erected for the regulation of parking.
PARKING METER SPACE
A space within a parking meter zone adjacent to a parking meter which is duly designated for the parking of a single vehicle by lines painted or otherwise durably marked on the curb, road surface or parking area adjacent to or adjoining a parking meter.
PARKING METER ZONE
A restricted area, street, highway or off-street parking area upon which parking meters are installed and in operation.
PERSON
Includes any individual, firm, association or corporation.
STREET
Any public street, avenue, highway or other public place located in the Village of Whitefish Bay and established for the use of vehicles.
VEHICLE
Any device in, upon or by which any person or property is or may be transported upon a highway.
The installation, use and maintenance of parking meters is believed necessary to afford better control and regulation of traffic moving to and from congested sections; to establish a more efficient system for the enforcement of parking regulations; to aid vehicle operators in transacting business requiring a short period of time; and as an exercise of police power.
[Amended by Ord. No. 1335]
Parking meter zones shall be those as established by the Village Board and shown on the official Silver Spring business area parking regulation map pursuant to § 6-13, which map is hereby incorporated by reference herein. Parking time limits shall include the following categories and shall be so designated on the official parking regulation map:
A. 
Two hours.
B. 
Ten hours.
The Village Manager shall mark off parking meter spaces in parking meter zones as designated in this article or may hereafter be established, and shall maintain said parking meter spaces.
The Village Manager shall cause parking meters to be installed upon the curb, sidewalk or area immediately adjacent to the parking meter space as designated in this article. The Village Manager shall be responsible for the regulation, control, operation and maintenance of such parking meters. The Chief of Police shall be responsible for the proper use and collection of coins from such parking meters. Each parking meter shall be set so as to display a signal showing legal parking upon the deposit of the appropriate coin or coins, lawful money of the United States of America, for the period of time provided in this article. Each parking meter shall be arranged so that, upon the expiration of the lawful time for legal parking, it will indicate by a proper visible signal that the lawful parking period has expired, and in such cases, the right of such vehicle to occupy such space shall cease and the operator or owner thereof shall be subject to the penalties hereinafter provided.
A. 
Except in a period of emergency as determined by an officer of the Fire or Police Department or by the Village Manager, when any vehicle shall be parked in any parking meter space adjacent to which a parking meter is located, the operator of such vehicle shall, upon entering the parking meter space, immediately deposit or cause to be deposited in said parking meter such proper coin or coins of the United States as is required for such parking meter as is designated by proper direction on the meter. The operator of such vehicle, after the deposit of the coin or coins, shall, if so required, also set in operation a timing mechanism on such meter in accordance with the directions appearing thereon. Failure to deposit such proper coin or coins and to set the timing mechanism in operation when so required shall constitute a violation of this section.
B. 
Upon the deposit of such coin or coins and the setting of the timing mechanism in operation when so required, the parking space may be lawfully occupied by such vehicle during a period of time which has been prescribed for the parking meter zone in which parking meter space is located, provided that any person placing a vehicle in a parking meter space adjacent to a parking meter which indicated that unused time has been left in such parking meter by the previous occupant of the parking meter space shall not be required to deposit a coin so long as his occupancy of said parking meter space does not exceed the indicated unused parking time.
[Amended by Ord. No. 1335]
A. 
Parking a vehicle in a parking meter space in a parking meter zone shall be lawful, provided that the operator shall cause to be deposited in the parking meter adjacent to such parking meter space the amount indicated for the time desired.
[Amended by Ord. No. 1716-A; at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 17, Village Code and Ordinances, Art. I)]
B. 
Parking meters shall be in operation as follows:
(1) 
From 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., except Sundays and holidays, in said on-street metered zones and in said municipal off-street parking lot metered zones.
(2) 
"Holidays" in this section include New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day (July 4), Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.
C. 
Maximum parking time. It is intended, to facilitate the purposes as set forth in § 6-15, to limit parking to a maximum of two hours and 10 hours in each respective parking meter zones. Merely depositing additional coins in a parking meter will not make parking legal which is otherwise illegal as being beyond the stated maximum time. It is the specific intention of this chapter that no car shall park longer than two hours in a two-hour parking meter space or longer than 10 hours in a ten-hour parking meter space.
It shall be unlawful and a violation of this section for the operator of any vehicle:
A. 
To cause, allow, permit or suffer any such vehicle to be parked overtime or beyond the period of legal parking time established for any parking meter zone as herein described, or to deposit in any parking meter any coin for the purpose of parking beyond the maximum legal parking time for the particular parking meter zone.
B. 
To permit any such vehicle to remain or be placed in any parking meter space adjacent to any parking meter while said meter is displaying a signal indicating that the vehicle occupying such parking meter space has already been parked beyond the period prescribed for such parking meter space.
C. 
To park any such vehicle across any line or marking of a parking meter space or in such position that the vehicle shall not be entirely within the area designated by such lines or markings.
D. 
Or any other person to deface, injure, tamper with, open or willfully break, destroy or impair any parking meter installed under the provisions of this section.
E. 
Or any other person to deposit or cause to be deposited in any parking meter any slugs, device or metal substance or other substitute for lawful coins of the United States.
The Chief of Police shall enforce the provisions of this section. The Chief of Police shall designate some member or members of the Police Department to make regular collections of the money deposited in said parking meters, and such persons so designated shall remove from the parking meters the sealed containers therein containing the coins so deposited in said parking meters and to deliver such sealed containers with the seals unbroken to the Village Clerk-Treasurer; provided, if any parking meters are not equipped with sealed containers, such persons shall remove such coins and deliver them to the Clerk-Treasurer. The Clerk-Treasurer shall break the seals, if any, and count the funds contained therein.
The Clerk-Treasurer shall deposit said funds in a separate and special fund to be known as "Parking Meter Fund." Said fund shall be used to help defray the expense of the purchase, construction or maintenance of off-street parking facilities.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Original Sec. 6.065, Whitefish Bay Commercial Off-Street Parking Utility, which immediately followed this section, was repealed 7-2-2018 by Ord. No. 1841.
[Added 1-21-2019 by Ord. No. 1846]
A. 
(Reserved)
B. 
(Reserved)
C. 
Required number of stalls.
Uses
Corresponding Stall Requirements
Retail sales (including grocery stores)
1 space per 300 square feet gross floor area
Personal services
2 spaces per treatment station, but not less than 4 spaces per 1,000 square feet
Bank
1 space per 250 square feet gross floor area
Theater
1 space per 4 seats with 50% reduction for non-coincidence factor equals 1 space per 8 seats
Medical office
1 space per 200 square feet gross floor area
Post office
1 space per 150 square feet patron area
plus 1 space per 2 inside employees
Commercial artist
1 space per 2 employees
Professional office
1 space per 250 square feet gross floor area
Funeral home
1 space per 6 seats
Furniture store
1 space per 600 square feet sales area
Restaurants and coffee shops
1 space per 150 square feet gross floor area