The following words and phrases, which are not defined in Subtitle
1 of Title 39 of the Revised Statutes of New Jersey, shall have the
meanings respectively ascribed to them in this section for purposes
of this article:
PARKING METER
Any mechanical device or meter not inconsistent with this
article placed or erected for the regulation of parking by authority
of this article. Each parking meter installed shall indicate by proper
legend the legal parking time established by the Mayor and members
of Council, and when operated shall at all times indicate the balance
of legal parking time, and at the expiration of such period shall
indicate illegal or overtime parking.
PARKING METER SPACE
Any space within a parking meter zone, adjacent to a parking
meter and which is duly designated for the parking of a single vehicle
by lines painted or otherwise durably marked on the curb or on the
surface of the street or lot adjacent to or adjoining the parking
meters.
PARKING METER ZONE
Any restricted street or off-street parking lot upon which
parking meters are installed and in operation.
The Police Department is hereby directed and authorized to provide for the marking off of individual parking spaces in the parking zones designated and described in Schedule XXIII (§
523-132), attached to and made a part of this chapter, 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.
In said parking meter zones, the Police Department shall cause parking meters to be installed upon the curb, sidewalk or area immediately adjacent to the parking spaces provided in §
523-42 of this article. No parking meters shall be installed in areas where parking is prohibited pursuant to the provisions of N.J.S.A. 39:4-138. The Traffic and Safety Bureau shall be responsible for the regulation, control, operation, maintenance and use of such parking meters. Each device shall be so set as to display a signal showing legal parking upon the deposit of the appropriate coin, lawful money of the United States of America, for the period of time prescribed by said Schedule XXIII. Each device shall be so arranged that upon the expiration of the lawful time limit it will indicate by a proper, visible signal that the lawful parking period has expired, and in such case the right of such vehicle to occupy such space shall cease, and the operator, owner, possessor or manager thereof shall be subject to the penalties hereinafter provided.
Except in a period of emergency determined by an officer of
the Fire or Police Department, or in compliance with the directions
of a police officer or traffic control sign or signal, when any vehicle
shall be parked in any parking space alongside or next to which a
parking meter is located, the operator of such vehicle shall, upon
entering the said parking meter space, immediately deposit or cause
to be deposited in said meter such proper coin of the United States
of America as is required for such parking meter and as is designated
by proper directions on the meter, and when required by the directions
on the meter, the operator of such vehicle, after the deposit of the
proper coin, shall also set in operation the timing mechanism on such
meter in accordance with directions properly appearing thereon, and
failure to deposit such proper coin and to set the timing mechanism
in operation when so required shall constitute a violation of this
article. Upon the deposit of such coin (and the setting of the timing
mechanism in operation when so required), the parking space may be
lawfully occupied by such vehicle during the period of time which
has been prescribed for the part of the street in which said parking
space is located, provided that any person placing a vehicle in a
parking meter space adjacent to a meter which indicates that unused
time has been left in the meter by the previous occupant of the space
shall not be required to deposit a coin so long as his occupancy of
said space does not exceed the indicated unused parking time. If said
vehicle shall remain parked in any such parking space beyond the parking
time limit set for such parking space and if the meter shall indicate
such illegal parking, then and in that event such vehicle shall be
considered as parking overtime and beyond the period of legal parking
time, and such parking shall be deemed a violation of this article.
When a parking meter space is parallel with the adjacent curb
or sidewalk, no person shall park or permit the parking of any vehicle
in such parking space in any other position than with the foremost
part of such vehicle nearest to the parking meter; when a parking
meter space is diagonal to the curb or sidewalk, no person shall park
or permit the parking of any vehicle in such parking space in any
other position than with the foremost part of such vehicle nearest
to the parking meter; when a parking meter shall have been installed
at the head of and immediately adjacent to any parking space on a
municipal off-street parking lot, no person shall park or permit the
parking of any vehicle in such parking space in any other position
than with the foremost part of such vehicle nearest to the parking
meter; provided, however, that in municipal off-street parking lots
signs shall be erected indicating that "head-on" parking only is permitted.
In any event, a vehicle shall be parked within the lines marked on
the pavement measuring such parking space.
[Amended 2-22-1989 by Ord. No. 1742]
A. It shall be unlawful and a violation of the provisions of this article
for any person:
(1) To cause, allow, permit or suffer any vehicle registered in the name
of or operated by such person 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.
(2) To permit any vehicle to remain or be placed in any parking space
adjacent to any parking meter while said meter is displaying a signal
indicating that the vehicle occupying such parking space has already
been parked beyond the period prescribed for such parking space.
(3) To park any 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.
(4) To deface, injure, tamper with, open or willfully break, destroy
or impair the usefulness of any parking meter installed under the
provisions of this article.
(5) To deposit or cause to be deposited in any parking meter any slug,
device or metal substance or other substitute for lawful coins.
(6) To park or permit the parking of any vehicle in any parking meter
space where the meter does not register lawful parking.
B. The fine prescribed for overtime parking shall be $40.
[Amended 2-16-2005 by Ord. No. 2223; 12-20-2023 by Ord. No. 2723-23]
Any vehicle left parked for a period exceeding 48 hours succeeding
expiration of the maximum parking time indicated during the hours
of operation specified in the space in which the vehicle is parked
shall be towed, under the direction of the Police Department, to the
designated garage or any other place designated by the Chief of Police
for impoundment, subject to redemption by the owner upon payment of
the reasonable cost of towing and a storage charge of $5 for each
day or portion thereof during which it remains in said garage or other
place.
The coins required to be deposited in parking meters as provided
herein are hereby levied and assessed as fees to provide for the proper
regulation and control of traffic upon the public streets and also
the cost of supervising and regulating the parking of vehicles in
the parking meter zones created hereby, and to cover the cost of the
purchase, supervision, protection, inspection, installation, operation,
maintenance, control and use of the parking meters described herein.
It shall be the duty of the Chief of Police to designate some
proper person or persons to make regular collections of the moneys
deposited in said meters, and it shall be the duty of such person
or persons so designated to remove from the parking meters the locked
containers therein containing the coins so deposited in said meters
and to deliver such locked containers to the Treasurer, who shall
unlock them and count the funds contained in such containers and deposit
such funds in the usual manner provided by law.
Exempted from this article are all handicapped parking spaces.
Any parking meters authorized for parking spaces designated for handicapped
parking only shall be removed therefrom.