[Adopted 6-4-1970]
A. 
Whenever any words and phrases are used in this ordinance, the meanings respectively ascribed to them in Subtitle 1 of Title 39 of the Revised Statutes of New Jersey shall be deemed to apply to such words and phrases used herein.
B. 
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 section for purposes of this ordinance:
PARKING METER
Includes any mechanical device or meter, not inconsistent with this ordinance, placed or erected for the regulation of parking by authority of this ordinance. Each "parking meter" installed shall indicate by proper legend the legal parking time established by the city 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.
PARKING METER SPACE
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 curb or on the surface of the street adjacent to or adjoining the parking meters.
PARKING METER ZONE
Includes any restricted street upon which parking meters are installed and in operation.
A. 
The following named and designated areas, streets or portions of streets in the City of Gloucester City shall constitute parking meter zones:
(1) 
North and south sides of Monmouth Street, from the east side of Broadway to the westerly line of the main railroad right-of-way of the Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines.
(2) 
North side of Monmouth Street, for the area in front of the City Hall.
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:
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The first day of January.
B. 
The 30th day of May.
C. 
The fourth day of July.
D. 
The first Monday in September.
E. 
Thanksgiving Day.
F. 
The 25th day of December.
It shall be unlawful and a violation of the provisions of this ordinance for any person:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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To deposit or cause to be deposited in any parking meter any slugs, device or metal substance or other substitute for lawful coins.
A. 
It shall be the duty of police officers of the city, 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 ordinance.
(2) 
The state license number of such vehicle.
(3) 
That such vehicle is parked in violation of any of the provisions of this ordinance.
(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 attach to such vehicle a notice to the owner thereof that such vehicle has been parked in violation of a provision of this ordinance, and instructing such owner to report to the Municipal Court, Gloucester City, New Jersey, in regard to such violation.
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.