The Chairman of the Police Committee of Common Council be and he is hereby directed and authorized to provide for the marking off of individual parking spaces in the parking zones designated and described in §
87-21 of this ordinance, said parking spaces to be designated by lines painted or marked on the curbing or surface of the street. 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 Chairman of the Police Committee of Common Council shall cause parking meters to be installed upon the curb or sidewalk immediately adjacent to the parking spaces provided in §
87-22 of this ordinance. No parking meters shall be installed in areas where parking is prohibited pursuant to the provisions of R.S. 39:4-138. The Chairman of the Police Committee of Common Council 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 this ordinance. 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
ordinance. 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 ordinance.
Parking or standing a vehicle in a designated space in a parking
meter zone shall be lawful for 60 minutes upon the deposit of a five-cent
coin or 12 minutes upon the deposit of a one-cent coin of the United
States of America.
Said parking meters shall be operated in said parking meter
zone every day between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m., local
time, except Sundays and holidays, provided, however, that within
the meaning of this ordinance the term "holiday" shall include the
following days only:
A. The first day of January.
D. The first Monday in September.
F. The 25th day of December.
It shall be unlawful and a violation of the provisions of this
ordinance for any person:
A. 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.
B. 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.
C. 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.
D. To deface, injure, tamper with, open or willfully break, destroy
or impair the usefulness of any parking meter installed under the
provisions of this ordinance.
E. To deposit or cause to be deposited in any parking meter any slugs,
device or metal substance or other substitute for lawful coins.
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 collection 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 City Treasurer of Gloucester
City, who shall unlock them and count the funds contained in such
containers and deposit such funds in the usual manner provided by
law.
Nothing in this ordinance shall be construed as prohibiting
the City of Gloucester City from providing for bus stops, for taxicab
stands and other matters of similar nature, including the loading
or unloading of trucks, vans or other commercial vehicles.
This ordinance shall be deemed to be in addition and supplementary
to present existing ordinances and shall not be and is not considered
a repealer of any prior or existing ordinance except insofar as prior
existing ordinances or parts of such ordinances are in conflict with
the provisions of this ordinance.