[G.O. No. 727, § 1; G.O. No. 770, § 1; G.O. No. 846, § 1; G.O. No. 911, § 1; G.O. No. 929, § 1; G.O. No. 986, § 4; G.O. No. 1020, § 11; G.O. No. 1037, § 3; G.O. No. 1060, § 5; G.O. No. 1073, § 3; G.O. No. 1085, § 3; G.O. No. 1135, § 1; G.O. No. 1176, § 3; G.O. No. 1403, § XIV; G.O. No. 1542, § XVIII; G.O. No. 1547, §§ III, IV; G.O. No. 1562, § II; G.O. No. 1824, § 4; amended 8-7-2007 by G.O. No. 1905]
Parking zones are hereby established in the following streets, highways, roadways and parking areas of the Town of Westfield with the following restrictions as to the parking time limit in each zone, and subject to the parking fees for each zone as set forth in § 13-38.
(a) 
Two-hour parking zones. Two-hour parking zones are hereby established in the following public streets and parking lots of the Town of Westfield where parking meters or pay station devices are installed:
[Amended 5-25-2010 by G.O. No. 1956]
Central Avenue
East Broad Street
Elmer Street
Elm Street
Lenox Avenue
Quimby Street
Prospect Street
South Avenue
Westfield Avenue
(b) 
Four-hour parking zones. Four-hour parking zones are hereby established in parking lots where parking meters or pay station devices are installed:
[Amended 9-23-2008 by G.O. No. 1923; 5-25-2010 by G.O. No. 1956]
Parking Lot No. 1
Parking Lot No. 2
Parking Lot No. 3
Parking Lot No. 4
Parking Lot No. 5
Parking Lot No. 7
(c) 
Twelve-hour parking zones with nine-hour meters and pay stations. Twelve-hour parking zones with nine-hour meters and pay stations are hereby established in the following public streets and parking lots of the Town of Westfield where nine-hour meters and pay stations are installed:
Elm Street
Ferris Place
Orchard Street
Parking Lot No. 1
Parking Lot No. 4
[G.O. No. 650, § 3; G.O. No. 664, § 2; G.O. No. 727, § 2; G.O. No. 935, § 1; G.O. No. 1403, § XV; G.O. No. 1542, § XIX; amended 8-7-2007 by G.O. No. 1905]
Except as otherwise expressly provided, in parking zones established by § 13-36 and such additions to such parking zones as may be added from time to time, and in parking lots with meters and pay stations, it shall be a violation for any vehicle to park or remain standing beyond the duration of time allowed in each parking zone during the following hours:
(a) 
In two-hour parking meter zones, between the hours of 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m., Monday through Saturday, except holidays.
[Amended 6-20-2017 by G.O. No. 2084]
(b) 
In twelve-hour parking zones with nine-hour meters and pay stations, between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m., Monday through Saturday, except federal holidays.
(c) 
In twelve-hour parking zones with twelve-hour meters and pay stations which are limited to lot 3A, and Watterson Street, between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m., Monday through Saturday, except federal holidays.
[G.O. No. 727, § 3; G.O. No. 911, § 2; G.O. No. 1020, § 12; G.O. No. 1030, § 6; G.O. No. 1346, § 7; G.O. No. 1403, § XVI; G.O. No. 1472, § VII; G.O. No. 1542, § XX; G.O. No. 1773, § II; amended 8-7-2007 by G.O. No. 1905; 11-30-2010 by G.O. No. 1968]
Parking fees for the one-hour and two-hour single space parking meters located on streets in the Town of Westfield shall be $0.75 per hour.
[G.O. No. 650, § 4; G.O. No. 1824, § 2; amended 8-7-2007 by G.O. No. 1905]
(a) 
Parking meters shall be placed as close as is reasonably possible to the curb, and the individual parking space to be regulated by the respective parking meter shall be marked by lines in the street, on the pavement or on the curb to indicate or set off the space within which a vehicle may be parked directly adjacent to the parking meter. No vehicle shall be parked except within the parking meter space allocated for the respective adjacent meter, as shown by lines on the street or pavements or marks on the curb. It shall be unlawful to place or park a vehicle across or beyond any such parking line or beyond such parking mark.
(b) 
Parking spaces in unmetered lots shall be marked by lines in the street, on the pavement or on the curb to indicate or set off the space within which a vehicle may be parked. It shall be unlawful to place or park a vehicle across or beyond any such parking line or beyond such parking mark.
(c) 
Parking spaces in parking lots or on the street controlled by pay stations shall be marked by lines in the street, on the pavement or on the curb to indicate or set off the space within which a vehicle may be parked. It shall be unlawful to place or park a vehicle across or beyond any such parking line or beyond such parking mark.
[G.O. No. 650, § 5; G.O. No. 1542, § XXI]
Each parking meter shall be designed to show by sign whether or not the designated parking meter space is legally in use based on the payment of the required fee for the time used. In the case of two hour meters and twelve hour meters the lawful parking limit fixed by the Town is the same as the maximum time period for which the fee may be paid by the insertion of coins. In the case of eight hour meters the lawful parking limit fixed by the Town is 12 consecutive hours. All meters when in operation shall indicate the progressive period of time used in parking, and on expiration of such period shall indicate illegal or overtime parking for failure to pay the required fee.
[G.O. No. 650, § 8]
When any vehicle is parked in any space designated by a parking meter in accordance with the provisions of this article, the operator of such vehicle shall, upon placing such vehicle in such parking space, immediately deposit or cause to be deposited a lawful coin of the United States of America, as designated on the parking meter, and in accordance with the time designated thereon. Failure to deposit such lawful coin shall constitute a breach of this article. Upon the deposit of such lawful coin and placing such meter in operation, the parking space may be lawfully occupied by such vehicle during the period of parking time which has been prescribed for the part of the street in which the parking space is located. If such vehicle shall remain parked in any such parking space beyond the parking time fixed for such parking space, the parking meter shall, by its dial or pointer, indicate such illegal parking and such vehicle shall be construed as parked overtime and beyond the period of legal parking time. The parking of a vehicle overtime or beyond the period of legal parking time in any such part of a street where any such meter is located shall be a violation of this article the owner of the illegally parked vehicle shall be penalized as set forth in this article.
[G.O. No. 650, § 9; amended 8-7-2007 by G.O. No. 1905]
(a) 
It shall be unlawful for any person to place, permit or allow any vehicle owned, driven or controlled by him or her to be placed or parked in any parking zone in which is located any parking meter or pay station without immediately depositing in the meter or pay station the proper payment designated thereon. It shall be unlawful for any person to place, permit or allow any vehicle owned, driven or controlled by him or her to be placed or parked or remain in such parking zone beyond the duration of time allowed in such parking zone as designated on the meter or pay station as established by the provisions of this chapter.
(b) 
It shall be unlawful for any person to place, permit or allow any vehicle owned, driven or controlled by him or her to remain in any parking zone beyond the duration of time allowed in such parking zone by repeatedly or periodically returning to the parking meter or pay station to deposit additional payments extending the time the vehicle is parked beyond the allowed limit for the parking zone in which the vehicle is located.
[G.O. No. 650, § 11; amended 8-7-2007 by G.O. No. 1905]
It shall be unlawful to deposit or cause to be deposited in any parking meter or pay station any slug device or metallic substitute or any other article than a United States coin, approved parking token or other approved payment device.
[G.O. No. 650, § 12]
It shall be unlawful for any person to deface, injure, tamper with, open, remove or willfully break or destroy a parking meter or impair or otherwise affect the usefulness of any parking meter installed under the provisions of this article.
[G.O. No. 650, § 13; G.O. No. 684, § 1; G.O. No. 852, § 5]
The Police Department, through its officers, shall enforce this article and shall make a record of any violation, including the number of the parking meter designated for the parking meter space where the violation occurred, the State license or registration number of the vehicle, the date concerning overtime or illegal parking and any other pertinent details. The police officer observing the violation shall attach to the vehicle a summons directing the owner or operator of the vehicle to appear before the Municipal Court of the Town on a regular court night, or report to the violation Clerk and pay the prescribed fine in accordance with the rules of the State Supreme Court dealing therewith. All sums so paid shall be transmitted to the Town Treasurer. Any person receiving a summons for violating any of the provisions of this article may, in any event, be liable to any of the penalties imposed by this article upon conviction of such violation in the Municipal Court.
[G.O. No. 1627, § II]
A person who is convicted of or pleads guilty to overtime parking in violation of Section 13-43 of this chapter four or more times in any twelve-month period shall be considered as a habitual offender. Each such conviction and/or a guilty plea in excess of three in any twelve-month period shall be considered a separate habitual offense and shall subject the offender to a fine of at least $10, but not in excess of $15, which shall be in addition to the fine provided in Section 13-49 of this chapter for overtime parking. Summonses shall be issued by mail from time to time by the office of the Court Clerk upon a review of parking violation records which indicate that such habitual offense has occurred.