[HISTORY: Adopted by the Council of the City of Perth Amboy:
Art. 1, 11-2-55 as Ord. No. C-531; Art. II, 11-6-57 as Ord. No. C-584. Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Adopted 11-2-55 as Ord. No. C-531; amended in its entirety 10-27-2021 by Ord. No. 2000-2021; 10-26-2022 by Ord. No. 2059-2022]
[Amended 10-26-2022 by Ord. No. 2059-2022]
For the purpose of this article, the following terms shall have
the meanings indicated:
The parking lot owned and operated by the City of Perth Amboy,
New Jersey, located south of Smith Street and north of Market Street
and lying between the easterly line of Hobart Street.
The parking lot owned and operated by the City of Perth Amboy,
New Jersey, located south of Jefferson Street and lying between the
westerly side of High Street and the easterly side of State Street.
The parking deck owned and operated by the City of Perth
Amboy, New Jersey, located south of Jefferson Street and lying between
the westerly side of New Brunswick Avenue and the easterly side of
Madison Avenue.
The parking lot owned and operated by the City of Perth Amboy,
New Jersey, located south of Smith Street and lying between the easterly
line of King Street and the westerly line of High Street.
The parking lot owned and operated by the City of Perth Amboy,
New Jersey, located south of Smith Street and north of Gordon Street
and north of the Marina Building lying between the easterly line of
Front Street and the westerly line of the Arthur Kill waterway.
The parking lot owned and operated by the City of Perth Amboy,
New Jersey, located south of Smith Street and north of Gordon Street
and south of the Marina Building lying between the easterly line of
Front Street and the westerly line of the Arthur Kill waterway.
Includes every individual who shall operate a vehicle as
the owner thereof, or as the agent, employee or permittee of the owner.
Includes the standing of a vehicle whether occupied or not.
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 surface of the
pavement adjacent to or adjoining the parking meters.
Includes any parking lot or facility owned, operated and
maintained by the City upon which parking meters are installed and
in operation.
Includes any individual, firm, co-partnership or corporation.
Includes all areas and facilities owned, operated or controlled
by the City and used or devoted to public parking.
The parking lot owned and operated by the City of Perth Amboy,
New Jersey, located south of New Brunswick Avenue and north of the
Public Safety Complex Buildings and lying between the easterly line
of Ogden Place and the westerly line of the Conrail Railroad Tracks.
The parking lot owned and operated by the City of Perth Amboy,
New Jersey, located south of Smith Street and north of Market Street
and lying between the westerly line of Madison Avenue and the easterly
line of McClellan Street.
The parking lot owned and operated by the City of Perth Amboy,
New Jersey, located south of Smith Street and north of Market Street
and lying between the westerly side of Maple Street and the New Jersey
Transit Station.
Any device in, upon or by which any person or property is
or may be transported upon a highway or street, except devices moved
by human or animal power.
[Amended 10-26-2022 by Ord. No. 2059-2022]
Any and all parking lots and facilities now or hereafter owned,
constructed, maintained or operated by the City are and shall be public
parking lots, and the same are hereby constituted and are to be known
as "parking meter zones," for a parking period limited to three hours
between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m. (prevailing time) on
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, except
that the City may elect to open the Jefferson Street Parking Deck
on Sundays and as otherwise hereinafter provided.
[Amended 10-26-2022 by Ord. No. 2059-2022]
In each of said public parking lots, the City shall install
parking meters or pay stations. Said parking meters shall be placed
immediately adjacent to or in front of the parking places hereinafter
described. Each parking meter shall be placed or set in such manner
as to show or display by a signal that the parking place adjacent
to such meter is or is not legally in use. Each parking meter installed
shall indicate by a proper legend the legal parking time established
by the City, and when operated shall indicate on and by its dial that
it is in legal use, and upon the expiration of the time for which
a coin or coins were inserted therein, shall indicate illegal or over
parking.
[Amended 10-26-2022 by Ord. No. 2059-2022]
The City may have lines or markings painted or placed upon the
pavement adjacent to each parking meter for the purpose of designating
the parking space for which said meter or pay station is to be used
and each vehicle parked adjacent to, or in front of or next to any
parking meter or space shall park within the lines or markings so
established. It shall be unlawful and a violation of this Article
to park any vehicle across any such line or marking or to park said
vehicle in such position that the same shall not be entirely within
the area so designated by such lines or markings.
[Amended 10-26-2022 by Ord. No. 2059-2022]
A.
When any vehicle is parked in any such space adjacent to, next to or in front of which a parking meter or multi-space pay machine is located in accordance with the provisions of this Article, the operator of said vehicle shall, upon entering the parking space, immediately deposit or cause to be deposited one (1) twenty-five cent ($0.25) coin of the United States in such parking meter for each thirty (30) or forty (40) minutes of parking time as set forth in the table below, and failure to deposit such coin or coins shall constitute a breach of this Article and shall subject such person to the penalty prescribed in § 312-16 hereof, except as hereinafter provided. If said vehicle shall remain parked in any such parking space beyond the parking time limit fixed for such space, or as indicated on said parking meter, such vehicle shall be considered as parked overtime and beyond the period of legal parking time as set forth herein.
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Zone 1
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Zone 2
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Zone 3
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Zone 4
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25 cents/30 minutes
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25 cents/30 minutes
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25 cents/30 minutes
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50 cents/1 hour
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B.
When a parking space is located in a City Lot it is limited to no
more than two hours of parking for the individual vehicle and the
space is regulated by a pay station, the vehicle may remain in that
space if the operator pays $0.50 for the third hour and $0.75 for
the fourth hour.
[Amended 10-26-2022 by Ord. No. 2059-2022]
It shall be unlawful and a violation of the provisions of this
article for any person to cause, allow, permit or suffer any vehicles
registered in the name of or operated by such person to be parked
overtime, or beyond the period of legal parking time, herein established,
for any public parking lot as herein described, except as hereinafter
provided. This article does not apply to any emergency or other authorized
City vehicle while parked in direct performance and executions of
their duty or enforcement of this article.
[Amended 10-26-2022 by Ord. No. 2059-2022]
No vehicle shall be parked in any public parking lot or meter
space for a period longer than three continuous hours, except as hereinafter
provided.
[Amended 10-26-2022 by Ord. No. 2059-2022]
It shall be unlawful and a violation of this article for any
person to deposit or cause to be deposited in a parking meter or pay
station any coin for the purpose of increasing or extending the parking
time of any vehicle beyond the legal parking time which has been established
for the parking space adjacent or next to which said parking meter
is placed.
[Amended 10-26-2022 by Ord. No. 2059-2022]
Except as hereinafter provided, it shall be unlawful and a violation
of the provisions of this article for any person to permit a vehicle
to remain or be placed in any parking space adjacent to or next to
any parking meter while said meter is displaying a signal or other
notification indicating that the vehicle occupying such parking space
has already been parked beyond the period of time prescribed for such
parking space.
[Amended 10-26-2022 by Ord. No. 2059-2022]
It shall be unlawful and a violation of the provisions of this
article to deposit or cause to be deposited in any parking meter any
slug, device or metallic substitute for any coin of the United States.
[Amended 10-26-2022 by Ord. No. 2059-2022]
Upon the payment of sixty dollars ($60.00) of the United States
to the City as a monthly fee, a person shall be permitted to park
a designated vehicle in the Jefferson Street Parking Deck, King-Plaza
Lot, Jefferson Lot C, Train Station Lot, Hobart Lot, and RD Howell
Lot for a period of one calendar month, at unmetered parking spaces,
now or hereafter designated in said lots. The City shall issue to
such person a sticker or other suitable sign to be placed on the vehicle
designated thereon, showing the calendar month during which such vehicle
may be parked in the aforesaid lots.
[Amended 10-26-2022 by Ord. No. 2059-2022]
No truck having a load weight capacity of more than 1/2 ton
shall park in or use any public parking lot owned, operated or maintained
by the City.
[Amended 10-26-2022 by Ord. No. 2059-2022]
No person, firm or corporation shall park a recreational vehicle,
truck, tractor or trailer, school bus or vehicle moved by human or
animal power in or use any public parking lot owned, operated or maintained
by the City.
[Amended 10-26-2022 by Ord. No. 2059-2022]
No vehicle not equipped with pneumatic tires properly inflated
shall park in or use any public parking lot owned, operated or maintained
by the City.
[Amended 10-26-2022 by Ord. No. 2059-2022]
A.
It shall be unlawful and a violation of the provisions of this Article
for any person to deface, injure, tamper with, open or willfully break,
destroy or impair the usefulness of any parking meter or other equipment
or device installed under the provisions of this Article.
B.
It shall be unlawful and a violation of the provisions of this Article
for any person to drive and operate a motor vehicle through any parking
lot or facility owned, operated and maintained by the City for the
purpose of using any such parking lot or facility as a public thoroughfare;
and no person shall drive any motor vehicle into any such parking
lot or facility without intent to park said motor vehicle as a patron
in such parking lot or facility.
C.
It shall be unlawful and a violation of the provisions of this Article
for any person to drive and operate a motor vehicle through any parking
lot or facility owned, operated and maintained by the City carelessly
or without due caution and circumspection, in the manner so as to
endanger, or be likely to endanger, a person or property.
[Amended 10-26-2022 by Ord. No. 2059-2022]
A.
Enforcement duties.
(1)
It shall be the duty of the police officers, special or Auxiliary
officers and/or parking/traffic enforcement officers of the City of
Perth Amboy, acting in accordance with instructions issued by the
Chief of the Police Department to report:
(a)
The number or location 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 Article.
(b)
Any other facts, a knowledge of which is necessary to a thorough
understanding of the circumstances attending such violation.
(2)
Each police officer, special, or Auxiliary officers and/or parking
enforcement officers may also attach to such vehicle a traffic ticket
or summons showing the owner or operator thereof that such vehicle
has been parked in violation of the provisions of this Article and
summoning such owner or operator to appear before the Municipal Court
of the City of Perth Amboy in regard to such violation. Any person
charged with any traffic offense under this Article, the disposition
of which is within the authority of the Violations Clerk may, upon
signing the plea of guilty and waiver of trial on the back of the
summons and upon ascertaining the fine and costs established for the
offense charges, pay the fine, either by mail or in person, the Violations
Clerk prior to the return date of the summons. The Magistrate, in
his or her discretion, may authorize the Violations Clerk to accept
such plea and payment at any subsequent date.
(3)
Any vehicle that remains parked while such meter or pay station displays
a signal or other indication that the vehicle occupying such space
has been parked beyond the period of time paid for or prescribed for
such parking space, each police officer, special or Auxiliary officers
and/or parking/traffic enforcement officers may also attach to such
vehicle, a traffic ticket or summons showing the owner or operator
thereof that such vehicle has been parked in violation of the provisions
of this Article and summoning each owner or operator to appear before
the Municipal Court of the City of Perth Amboy in regard to such violation.
Any person charged with any traffic offense under this Article the
disposition of which is within the authority of the Violations Clerk
may, upon signing the plea of guilty and waiver of trial on the back
of the summons and upon ascertaining the fine and costs established
for the offense charges, pay the fine, either by mail or in person,
to the Violations Clerk prior to the return date of the summons. The
Judge of the Municipal Court in his discretion may authorize the Violations
Clerk to accept such plea and payment at any subsequent date.
B.
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any of the provisions
of this Article shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine not
to exceed two hundred dollars ($200.00).
[Adopted 11-6-57 as Ord. No. C-584; amended in entirety 10-27-2021 by Ord. No. 2000-2021; 10-26-2022 by Ord. No.
2059-2022]
[Amended 10-26-2022 by Ord. No. 2059-2022]
The following terms, wherever used or referred to in this article,
shall have the following respective meanings, which definitions shall
apply in the interpretation and enforcement of this article, unless
a different meaning clearly appears from the context:
A person who is in actual, physical control of a vehicle
or street car.
The standing or waiting on a street, road or highway of a
vehicle not actually engaged in receiving or discharging passengers
or merchandise, unless in obedience to traffic regulations or traffic
signs or signals.
Includes natural persons, firms, co-partnerships, associations
and corporations.
The entire width between the boundary lines of every way
publicly maintained when any part thereof is open to the use of the
public for purposes of vehicular travel.
Every device in, upon or by which a person or property is
or may be transported upon a highway, except devices moved by human
power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks.
[Amended 9-3-58 by Ord. No. C-600; 10-15-68 by Ord. No. C-605; 7-15-59 by Ord. No. C-621; 4-20-76
by Ord. No. 92-76; 4-5-1977 by Ord. No. 146-77; 2-3-1981 by Ord. No. 266-81; 2-18-1981 by Ord. No. 267-81; 12-3-1991 by Ord. No.
585-91; 12-3-1991 by Ord. No. 685-91; 6-8-1994 by Ord. No. 721-94; 11-1-1994 by Ord. No. 747-94; 2-26-2014 by Ord. No. 1714-2014; 10-27-2021 by Ord. No.
2000-2021; 10-26-2022 by Ord. No. 2059-2022]
A.
The Police Chief of the City of Perth Amboy is hereby authorized
to establish immediately, zones to be known as parking meter zones
in and upon such sides and/or such portions of the following named
streets and avenues where parking is now, or may be hereafter allowed
by any ordinance of the City of Perth Amboy, as follows:
(1)
The following streets and avenues, or parts thereof, shall be known
as "Zone 1":
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Zone 1
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Street
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Location
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Hobart Street
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Both sides thereof from Market Street to Smith Street
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Jefferson Street
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Both sides thereof from New Brunswick Avenue to New Jersey Central
Railroad
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Jefferson Street
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The south side thereof from State Street to High Street
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King Street
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Both sides thereof from Market Street to Smith Street
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Madison Avenue
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Both sides thereof from Market Street to Jefferson Street
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Maple Street
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Both sides thereof from Market Street to Jefferson Street
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McClellan Street
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Both sides thereof from Market Street to Smith Street
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New Brunswick Avenue
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Both sides thereof from State and Smith Streets to the north
side of Jefferson Street
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Smith Street
[Repealed 12-3-1991 by Ord. No. 685-91] | |
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State Street
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Both sides thereof from Market Street to the north side of Jefferson
Street
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(2)
The following streets or avenues or parts thereof shall be known
as "Zone 2":
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Zone 2
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Street
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Location
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Brighton Avenue (east side)
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For a distance of 100 feet south of Market Street
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Division Street
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Both sides thereof for a distance of 100 feet north of New Brunswick
Avenue
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East Avenue
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Both sides thereof for a distance of 100 feet north of New Brunswick
Avenue
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Elm Street
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Both sides thereof from Market Street to Smith Street
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Fayette Street
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Both sides thereof from Mechanic Street to the New Jersey Transit
Rail Road Track
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First Street
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Both sides thereof for a distance of 100 feet south of Market
Street
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High Street
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Both sides thereof for a distance of 100 feet south of Market
Street
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High Street
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Both sides thereof from Market Street to Fayette Street, except
that there shall be no parking meters in front of 272, 274 or 276
High Street
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Kearny Avenue
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Both sides thereof for a distance of 100 feet south of Market
Street
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Madison Avenue
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Both sides thereof for a distance of 100 feet south of Market
Street
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Madison Avenue
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Both sides thereof from Jefferson Street to Fayette Street
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Market Street (north side)
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From Rector Street to Elm Street
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Market Street (south side)
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From Rector Street to the New Jersey Transit Rail Road Tracks
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New Street
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Both sides thereof for a distance of 100 feet north of New Brunswick
Avenue
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Park Avenue
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Both sides thereof for a distance of 100 feet north of New Brunswick
Avenue
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Second Street
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Both sides thereof for a distance of one hundred (100) feet
south of Market Street
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Smith Street
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Both sides thereof from High Street to Water Street
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Smith Street
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Both sides thereof from the New Jersey Transit Rail Road Tracks
to Davidson Avenue
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State Street (west side)
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For a distance of 100 feet south of Market Street
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(3)
The following streets or avenues or parts thereof shall be known
as "Zone 3":
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Zone 3
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Street
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Location
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Baker Place (east side)
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Beginning at a point on the easterly line of Baker Place, twenty-five
(25) feet south of the southerly line of New Brunswick Avenue; thence
running south along said east line of Baker Place, forty-seven (47)
feet to a point
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Baker Place (west side)
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Beginning at a point on the westerly line of Baker Place, twenty-five
(25) feet south of the southerly line of New Brunswick Avenue; thence
running south along said west line of Baker Place, forty-seven (47)
feet to a point
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Barclay Street (north side)
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Beginning at a point on the northerly line of Barclay Street,
twenty-five (25) feet east of the easterly line of Groom Street; thence
running east along said north line of Barclay Street, one hundred
twenty (120) feet to a point
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Barclay Street (south side)
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Beginning at a point on the southerly line of Barclay Street,
twenty-five (25) feet east of the easterly line of Groom Street; thence
running along said south line of Barclay Street, one hundred thirty
(130) feet to a point
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Broadhead Place (west side)
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Beginning at a point on the westerly line of Broadhead Place,
twenty-five (25) feet south of the southerly line of New Brunswick
Avenue; thence running south along said west line of Broadhead Place,
seventy-two (72) feet to a point
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Lawrie Street
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North side thereof from Groom Street to Convery Boulevard
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New Brunswick Avenue (north side)
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From Augustine Place to Groom Street
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New Brunswick (south side)
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From Baker Place to Augustine Place
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Smith Street
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Both sides thereof from High Street to New Jersey Transit Rail
Road Tracks
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Steadman Place (west side)
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Beginning at a point on the westerly line of Steadman Place,
twenty-five (25) feet south of the southerly line of New Brunswick
Avenue; thence running south along said east line of Steadman Place,
forty (40) feet to a point
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Steadman Place (west side)
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Beginning at a point on the westerly line of Steadman Place,
twenty-five (25) feet south of the southerly line of New Brunswick
Avenue; thence running south along said west line of Steadman Place,
seventy-five (75) feet to a point
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(4)
The following streets or avenues or parts thereof shall be known
as "Zone 4":
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Zone 4
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Street
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Location
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Maple Street
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Both sides thereof from Jefferson Street to New Brunswick Avenue
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New Brunswick Avenue
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Both sides thereof from the north side of Jefferson Street to
the New Jersey Transit Rail Road Tracks
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State Street
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Both sides thereof from the north side of Jefferson Street to
Commerce Street
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(5)
From time to time hereafter, as traffic conditions require, to establish
said zones in such other streets as are designated by ordinance of
the Council of the City of Perth Amboy for the location of such zones.
B.
In said parking meter zones, parking meters shall be installed and
parking meter spaces shall be designated as hereinafter provided.
No vehicle shall remain parked in Zone 1 for longer than one (1) hour
and in Zones 2, 3 and 4 for longer than two (2) hours.
C.
Parking meters installed in the parking meter zones hereof shall
be placed upon the curb immediately adjacent to the parking places
hereinafter described. Each parking meter shall be placed or set in
such manner as to show or display by a signal or otherwise indicate
to the operator that the parking space adjacent to such meter is or
is not legally in use. Each parking meter area installed shall indicate
by a proper legend the legal parking time established by the City
and, when operated, shall indicate on and by its dial and pointer
the duration of the periods of legal parking and, on the expiration
of such period, shall indicate illegal or over-parking.
[1]
Editor's Note: Former § 312-19, Powers and duties,
as amended, and § 312-20, Placement and design of parking
meters, were repealed 10-27-2021 by Ord. No. 2000-2021.
[Amended 10-26-2022 by Ord. No. 2059-2022]
There maybe lines or markings painted or placed upon the curb
and/or upon the street adjacent to each parking meter for the purpose
of designating the parking space for which said meter is to be used
and each vehicle parked adjacent or next to any parking meter shall
park within the lines of marking so established. It shall be unlawful
and a violation of this Article to park any vehicle across any such
line or marking or to park said vehicle in such position that the
same shall not be entirely within the area so designated by such lines
or markings.
[Amended 10-26-2022 by Ord. No. 2059-2022]
When a parking space in any parking meter zone is parallel with
the adjacent curb or sidewalk, any vehicle parked in such parking
space shall be parked so that the foremost part of such vehicle shall
be nearest to the parking meter; if the meter is mounted in that arrangement
when a parking space in any parking meter zone is diagonal to the
curb or sidewalk, any vehicle parked in such parking space shall be
parked with the foremost part of such vehicle nearest to such meter.
[Amended 7-15-59 by Ord. No. C-621; 4-20-76 by Ord. No. 92-76; 4-5-77 by Ord. No. 146-77; 1-11-12
by Ord. No. 1622-2012; 10-27-2021 by Ord. No.
2000-2021; 10-26-2022 by Ord. No. 2059-2022]
A.
When any vehicle shall be parked in any space adjacent to which a parking meter or multi-space pay machine is installed, the operator of said vehicle shall, upon entering said space, immediately deposit or cause to be deposited payment as set forth in § 312-5. Failure to deposit such coin or coins or other payment shall constitute a breach of this Article and subject such person to the penalty prescribed in § 312-33 hereof. Upon the deposit of such coin or coins or other payment and placing said meter in operation, such parking space may be lawfully occupied by such vehicle during the period of parking time as indicated on said parking meter, but in no case in excess of the period of parking time which has been prescribed for the part of the street in which said parking space is located.
B.
In Zones 1, 2 and 3, the legal meter parking time shall be between
the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. (prevailing time) on Mondays,
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays and between the hours
of 8:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m. (prevailing time) on Fridays, holidays
excepted.
C.
In Zone 4, the legal meter parking time shall be between the hours
of 8:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m. (prevailing time) on Mondays through Fridays
and between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. (prevailing time)
on Saturdays, holidays excepted. If said vehicle shall remain parked
in any such parking space beyond the parking limit fixed for such
parking space, or as indicated on said parking meter or zone, such
vehicle shall be considered as parked overtime and beyond the period
of legal parking time as above set forth, and the parking of a vehicle
overtime or beyond the period of legal parking time as above set forth,
in any such part of a street where such meter is located shall be
a violation of this Article, and the operator of such vehicle so parked
shall be punished as hereinafter set forth.
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ZONE 1
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ZONE 2
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ZONE 3
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ZONE 4
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.25 CENTS/30 MINUTES
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.25 CENTS/30 MINUTES
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.25 CENTS/30 MINUTES
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.25 CENTS/30 MINUTES
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[Amended 10-26-2022 by Ord. No. 2059-2022]
It shall be unlawful and a violation of the provisions of this
Article for any person 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.
[1]
Editor's Note: Former § 312-25, Unlawful deposit
of coins, was repealed 10-27-2021 by Ord. No. 2000-2021.
[Amended 10-26-2022 by Ord. No. 2059-2022]
It shall be unlawful and a violation of the provisions of this
Article for any person to permit a 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 of time prescribed
for such parking space.
[Amended 10-26-2022 by Ord. No. 2059-2022]
It shall be unlawful and a violation of the provisions of this
Article to deposit or cause to be deposited in any parking meter any
slug, device or metallic substitute for a coin of the United States.
[Amended 10-26-2022 by Ord. No. 2059-2022]
It shall be unlawful and a violation of the provisions of this
Article for any person 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.
[Amended 10-26-2022 by Ord. No. 2059-2022]
A.
It shall be the duty of the police officers, special or auxiliary
officer and/or parking/traffic enforcement officers of the City of
Perth Amboy, acting in accordance with instructions issued by the
Chief of Police, to report:
(1)
The number of each parking or location meter which indicates that
the vehicle occupying the parking space adjacent to such parking or
location meter is or has been parked in violation of any of the provisions
of this Article.
(2)
The state license number of such vehicle.
(3)
The length of time during which such vehicle is parked in violation
of any of the provisions of this Article.
(4)
Any other facts a knowledge of which is necessary to a thorough understanding
of the circumstances attending such violation.
B.
Each police officer, special or Auxiliary officer and/or parking/traffic
enforcement officers shall also attach to such vehicle a traffic ticket
or summons showing the owner or operator thereof that such vehicle
has been parked in violation of the provisions of this Article and
summoning said owner or operator to appear before the Municipal Court
of the City of Perth Amboy in regard to such violation. Any person
charged with any traffic offense under this Article which is within
the authority of the Violations Clerk may, upon signing the plea of
guilty and waiver of trial on the back of the summons and upon ascertaining
the fine and costs established for the offense charged, pay the fine,
either by mail or in person, to the Violations Clerk prior to the
return date of the summons. The Magistrate in his discretion may authorize
the Violations Clerk to accept such plea and payment at any subsequent
date.
[Amended 10-26-2022 by Ord. No. 2059-2022]
Nothing contained in this Article shall be construed to permit
parking of vehicles in these spaces within any zone in which by other
ordinances of police regulations of the City of Perth Amboy, parking
is prohibited; nor shall anything contained in this Article be construed
as prohibiting the City of Perth Amboy from providing free-parking
spaces for loading and unloading, for bus stops, taxicab stands, or
for other matters of a similar or emergency nature.
[Amended 10-26-2022 by Ord. No. 2059-2022]
This Article shall be deemed to be in addition and supplementary
to, and not in conflict with nor a repeal of prior or existing ordinances
of the city, but shall be an additional provision for the regulation
of traffic and parking in those zones provided for herein.
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Editor's Note: Former § 312-32, Disposition of moneys,
was repealed 10-27-2021 by Ord. No. 2000-2021.
[Amended 10-26-2022 by Ord. No. 2059-2022]
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any of the
provisions of this article shall, upon conviction, be punished by
a fine not to exceed two hundred dollars ($200).
