[Added 11-10-2018 by Ord. No. 1097]
A. 
The following are established as the off-street metered parking lots operated by the Borough:
Name of Lot
Location
Penn Avenue
515 to 545 Penn Avenue, West Reading, Pennsylvania
B. 
Rates for metered parking shall be determined in accordance with a schedule of fees adopted by resolution of Borough Council.
A. 
The Borough Council, at its discretion, may provide, at convenient and suitable locations in one or all of the metered parking lots, reserved parking spaces for handicapped individuals and shall designate those spaces by appropriate signs or pavement markings. It shall be unlawful and a violation of this article 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, provided that all provisions, requirements, and restrictions contained in this article shall apply to vehicles lawfully parked in parking spaces reserved for handicapped individuals.
B. 
Any person who violates this section by unlawfully parking in an accessible parking space shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $100, plus costs.
A. 
Parking meters installed in the said lots established in § 430-60 shall be placed immediately adjacent to the individual parking spaces that shall be marked off in the said lots. Each parking meter shall be placed or set in such manner as to show that the parking space adjacent to such meter is or is not legally occupied. Each parking meter installed shall indicate by a proper legend the legal time established by this article and, when occupied, shall indicate on and by its display or dial and pointer the duration of the period of legal parking and, on the expiration of such period, shall indicate illegal parking or overtime parking.
B. 
Multicompartment parking control devices, which shall include any device or mechanism capable of accepting payment as defined herein for parking in a designated parking space or spaces, shall be installed next to the main entrance of lots being metered with such devices and shall be clearly and conspicuously identified. Each such multicompartment parking control device shall indicate, by a proper legend, the identity of the spaces controlled by such device as well as the fee for parking in such space and the duration of the period of legal parking therein.
C. 
As used in this article, the meaning of the term "parking meter" shall include multicompartment parking control devices.
D. 
Smart phone applications made available to the public with information posted in the established lots shall be able to be utilized to indicate which space a vehicle is parked in, by inputting the number of the space and the license plate of the vehicle, and to make payment for parking in such space and the duration of the period of legal parking therein.
Lines and/or markings shall be painted or placed upon the various off-street metered parking lots hereby established, adjacent to each parking meter or numbered for the purpose of designating the parking space for which such meter shall be used. Each vehicle parked adjacent to any parking meter or in a numbered parking space shall be parked within the lines or markings so placed and applicable to such meter or numbered space. It shall be unlawful and a violation of this article for any person to park a vehicle across any such line or marking, or to park a vehicle in such a position that the vehicle is not wholly within the areas designated by those lines or markings; or to park a vehicle elsewhere in any such lot other than in an individual numbered parking space or a parking space adjacent to a parking meter.
A. 
The term "payment" as used in this article shall mean the deposit of coins of the United States or Borough-issued parking meter tokens, or the use of prepaid parking meter cards, credit cards, debit cards, or other means approved by the Borough.
B. 
Whenever a vehicle is to be parked in any space adjacent to an off-street parking meter or numbered parking space at any time in the period of limited parking as prescribed in § 430-62 of this article, the driver of the vehicle, upon entering the parking space, shall immediately make payment as specified in the legend on the parking meter.
C. 
Upon payment and placing the meter in operation, the parking space may be lawfully occupied by the vehicle for the time indicated on the meter. If any vehicle shall remain in any such parking space for such length of time that the meter shall indicate by proper signal that the lawful parking time has expired, that vehicle shall be considered as having been parked illegally or overtime, which shall be a violation of this article.
It shall be unlawful for any person to make payment to a parking meter installed under the provisions of this article using a slug or other substitute for a coin of the United States or Borough-issued parking meter token, or the use of illegal or fraudulent prepaid parking meter cards, credit cards, debit cards, or other means approved by the Borough.
It shall be unlawful and a violation of this article for any person to permit a vehicle to remain in a parking space adjacent to a parking meter installed under this article when that meter displays a signal indicating that the vehicle has already been parked there beyond the period of time prescribed for that parking space or the time for which a payment was deposited in that meter for the parking of that vehicle.
It shall be unlawful and a violation of this article 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 article; provided, that nothing in this section shall apply to the servicing or opening of parking meters by officers, employees or police officers of the Borough under the direction of the Mayor or Council.
It shall be unlawful and a violation of this article for any person, owner, or operator of a passenger and/or commercial motor vehicle to operate a business from any parking space adjacent to any parking meter or numbered parking space established under this article.
A. 
It shall be the duty of the police officers and parking enforcement personnel of the Borough, acting in accordance with the directions of the Chief of Police, to report:
(1) 
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 article.
(2) 
The date and hour of the violation.
(3) 
The license number of the vehicle.
(4) 
Any other fact, the knowledge of which is necessary for a thorough understanding of the circumstances attending the violation.
B. 
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 article and instructing the owner or driver to report to the place identified in such report to pay to the Borough the fine prescribed in § 430-72 of this article within 24 hours after the time of the notice or to pay the fine prescribed in § 430-72 of this article by placing such amount within the envelope provided and forward the same by First Class U.S. Mail, postage prepaid, to the address indicated within the time limit provided.
A. 
By resolution, Borough Council may temporarily suspend the provisions of this article requiring payment to meters and establishing a maximum parking time at meters.
B. 
The Borough shall have the authority to establish no-parking or special-purpose parking zones within any off-street metered parking lot and to remove parking meters from those areas as previously installed there, and the provisions of this article shall not apply in those areas where no-parking or special-purpose parking is in effect.
C. 
Any vehicle to which a Borough-issued off-street parking permit has been affixed or placed, as may be directed by the Borough, shall be exempt from the time limits and payment requirements set forth in this article.
[Amended 5-22-2019 by Ord. No. 1110; 12-15-2020 by Ord. No. 1132]
Unless otherwise noted, any person who violates a provision of this article shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $25, plus costs.