[Ord. #559; Ord. #593; 1976 Code § 169-31]
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 subsection for purposes
of this Chapter:
Shall mean any mechanical device or meter not inconsistent
with this Chapter, placed or erected for the regulation of parking
by authority of this Chapter. Each "parking meter" installed shall
indicate by proper legend the legal parking time established by the
Township 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.
Shall mean any 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 or on the surface of the street or lot adjacent to or adjoining
the parking meters.
Shall mean any restricted street or off-street parking lot
upon which parking meters are installed and in operation.
[Ord. #559; Ord. #593; 1976 Code § 169-32]
The Chief of Police is hereby directed and authorized to provide
for the marking off of individual parking spaces in the parking zones
designated and described in Schedule I attached to and made a part
of this Chapter, the 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 vehicle shall not be entirely within the limits of the
space so designated.
[Ord. #559; Ord. #593; 1976 Code § 169-33]
In parking meter zones the Township Council may cause parking meters to be installed upon the curb, sidewalk or area immediately adjacent to the parking spaces provided in subsection 8-1.2 of this Chapter. No parking meters shall be installed in areas where parking is prohibited pursuant to the provisions of N.J.R.S. 39:4-138. The Chief of Police 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 Schedule I. 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.
[Ord. #559; 1976 Code § 169-34]
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 parking meter space, immediately deposit or cause to
be deposited in the 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
Chapter. 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 the 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 as long as his occupancy of
the space does not exceed the indicated unused parking time. If the
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 Chapter.
[Ord. #559; 1976 Code § 169-35]
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.
[Ord. #559; 1976 Code § 169-36]
It shall be unlawful and a violation of the provisions of this
Chapter for any person to:
a.
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.
b.
Permit any vehicle to remain or be placed in any parking space adjacent
to any parking meter while the 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.
c.
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.
d.
Deface, injure, tamper with, open or willfully break, destroy or
impair the usefulness of any parking meter installed under the provisions
of this Chapter.
e.
Deposit or cause to be deposited in any parking meter any slug, device
or metal substance or other substitute for lawful coins.
f.
Park or permit the parking of any vehicle in any parking meter space
where the meter does not register lawful parking.
[Ord. #559; 1976 Code § 169-37]
a.
It shall be the duty of the police officers, acting in accordance
with instructions issued by the Chief of Police, to report:
1.
The number of each parking meter which indicates that the vehicle
occupying the parking space adjacent to such parking meter is or has
been parked in violation of any of the provisions of this Chapter.
2.
The state license number of such vehicle.
3.
That such vehicle is parked in violation of any of the provisions
of this Chapter.
4.
Any other facts, a knowledge of which is necessary to a thorough
understanding of the circumstances attending such violation.
b.
Each such police officer shall also attach to such vehicle a notice
to the owner thereof that such vehicle has been parked in violation
of a provision of this Chapter, and instructing such owner to report
to the Municipal Court in regard to such violation.
[Ord. #559; Ord. #593; 1976 Code § 169-38]
Any vehicle left parked for a period exceeding 12 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, subject
to redemption by the owner upon payment of the reasonable cost of
towing and a storage charge.
[Ord. #559; 1976 Code § 169-39]
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.
[Ord. #559; Ord. #593; 1976 Code § 169-40]
It shall be the duty of the Chief of Police to designate some
proper person or persons to make regular collections of the monies
deposited in the 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 the 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.
[Ord. #559; 1976 Code § 169-43]
All land owned or leased by the Township of Mahwah and maintained
by the Township within the corporate limits of the Municipality and
used for the parking of motor vehicles shall be for the sole and exclusive
benefit of the residents of the Township, who shall be entitled to
park motor vehicles at any such location within the white lines delineating
prescribed parking spaces without payment of a fee therefor.
[Ord. #559; 1976 Code § 169-44]
It shall be unlawful for any operator of a motor vehicle to
park the vehicle in any of the public parking areas owned or leased
and maintained by the Township unless the operator, at the time of
the parking of the vehicle, shall be a resident of the Township.
[Ord. #559; 1976 Code § 169-45]
Residents of the Township shall properly identify their vehicles
by placing a marker on the lower right-rear window. Marker shall be
issued by the Township Clerk. Residents may apply for same Monday
through Friday between the hours of 9:30 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. at the
office of the Township Clerk. The area on the south side of the parking
lot behind the Municipal Building beginning at the southeast corner
and extending 100 feet westerly therefrom is reserved for official
vehicles only. Such vehicles and parking spaces shall be properly
identified.
[Ord. #559; Ord. #592; 1976 Code § 169-46]
The Township Council may, by ordinance, designate certain areas
within the aforesaid lands which may be used by motor vehicle operators
not residents of the Township, provided that the parking of the motor
vehicles shall be in connection with business carried on with the
Township, parking being limited to no longer than one hour and such
motor vehicles being properly identified by a marker to be placed
on the lower right rear window and to be issued by the Township Clerk.
The area which may be designated by the ordinance shall be clearly
defined with appropriate signs and markings, setting forth the limited
purpose for the parking and the time limit.
[Ord. #559; Ord. #682; Ord. #808; 1976 Code §§ 169-4,
169-6, 169-47; Ord. #1681, § 1; Ord. #1690, §§ 1,2]
a.
No person shall park in any off-street parking area described in
Schedule III for a longer time than that indicated during such hours
as may be designated in Schedule III attached to and made a part of
this Chapter.
b.
No person, except for members of police departments, volunteer fire
companies or members of rescue or ambulance squads, shall park any
vehicles at any time upon any municipal property which is expressly
designated by signs or pavement markings indicating that the area
is a "FIRE ZONE, POLICE ZONE, OR AMBULANCE ZONE-NO PARKING EXCEPT
FOR AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL."
c.
Violations and Penalties. Unless another penalty is expressly provided
by New Jersey statute, every person convicted of a violation of paragraph
b., above, shall be liable to a penalty of not more than $50 or imprisonment
for a term not exceeding 15 days, or both.
[Ord. #1015, § I]
Pursuant to N.J.S.A. 40:48-2.46 the Planning Board of the Township
of Mahwah is hereby authorized and directed to designate and reserve
parking spaces within various parking lots in the Township of Mahwah
for physically handicapped parking.
[Ord. #1015, § II]
It shall be unlawful for any persons to park a vehicle at any
time within the parking spaces designated and reserved for physically
handicapped parking unless the driver of said vehicle is physically
handicapped and/or unless the vehicle displays a physically handicapped
sticker or license as provided by the State of New Jersey or any other
state.
[Ord. #1015, § III]
Each space or group of spaces shall be identified by a clearly
visible sign displaying the international symbol of access. All physically
handicapped parking spaces shall be designated, signed, marked and
maintained by the owners of the premises in accordance with the rules
and regulations of the New Jersey State Department of Transportation.
[Ord. #1015, § IV; Ord. #1468]
Unless another penalty is expressly provided by New Jersey Statute,
every person convicted of violating a provision of this section or
any amendment thereto shall be liable to a penalty of not more than
$250 for the first offense and for subsequent offenses, a fine of
at least $250 and up to 90 days community service on such terms and
in such form as the Court shall deem appropriate, or any combination
thereof. In addition to any other remedies, any unoccupied vehicle
parked or standing in violation of this section shall be deemed a
nuisance, and detrimental to the health, safety and welfare of the
residents of the Township of Mahwah and any peace officer may provide
for the removal of such vehicle and the owner shall pay the reasonable
cost of the removal and storage which may result from such removal
before regaining possession of the vehicle.
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Schedule I
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(Reserved)
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Schedule II
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(Reserved)
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Schedule III
Off-Street Parking Areas
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Pursuant to subsection 8-2.5, off-street parking areas are hereby established as described below. It shall be unlawful, upon any day except Sundays and holidays, to park a vehicle in any such area in excess of the time specified during the hour indicated.
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Area
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Time Limit
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Hours
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Description
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Miller Road, south side
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2 hrs.
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11:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
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Lot 22 in Block 22 on the current Tax Atlas
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Pilot Truck Stop
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1 hr.
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24 a day
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1 hour parking limit at 8 truck parking spaces
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