[Amended by Ord. No. 17-82]
As used in this article, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
HOLIDAY
Includes the following days only: New Year's Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day.
PARKING AREA
Includes the parking areas of places owned, controlled, managed, operated or used by or leased to the Borough and now used for parking as herein elsewhere defined, which parking areas or places are described in Schedule XXIII and Schedule XXIV.
PARKING METER
Includes any mechanical device or meter not inconsistent with this article placed or erected for the regulation of parking by authority of this article. Each parking meter installed shall, when operated, at all times indicate the balance of legal parking time, and at the expiration of such period, shall indicate illegal or overtime parking. Each parking meter installed shall be proper legend thereon, refer to instruction signs or other signs in, on or adjacent to the parking areas, which signs shall control the legal parking times and the use by the public of parking meters, parking areas, parking spaces or any other parking requirements not inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter.
PARKING METER ZONE
Includes any space within any parking area upon which parking meters are installed and in operation and described in Schedule XXIII.
PERMIT PARKING ZONE
Includes any space within any parking area described in Schedule XXIV where persons who purchase permits from the Red Bank Police Department may park.
A. 
The Chief of Police is hereby directed and authorized under the direction and supervision of the Borough Council to mark off individual parking spaces in the parking areas designated and described in Schedule XXIII and Schedule XXIV and in such other areas as may hereafter be established, the parking spaces to be designated by lines painted or durably marked on the curbing or the ground surfaces and to erect such instruction signs or other instructions pertaining to one or more of the following: parking time limit, costs of parking and the use by the public of the parking meters, parking spaces, parking areas and other matter not inconsistent with the provisions of this article.
In the parking areas described in Schedule XXIII and Schedule XXIV, the Chief of Police shall, under the direction and supervision of the Borough Council, cause parking meters to be installed conveniently adjacent to or near each of the parking spaces provided for in and by § 680-14 of this chapter and not more than four feet from the front of each of the parking spaces. No parking meter shall be installed within those areas where parking is prohibited pursuant to N.J.S.A. 39:4-138. The Chief of Police, under the direction and supervision of the Borough 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 or coins, lawful money of the United States of America, for the period of time prescribed in this article. 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 cases, 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.
[Amended by Ord. No. 1993-17; Ord. No. 2001-6; Ord. No. 2003-19; Ord. No. 2005-19; Ord. No. 2005-20; Ord. No. 2005-29]
A. 
Except in a period of emergency, determined by the Borough Council, or by the Chief of Police or other proper officer of the Fire or Police Department, or by the Government of the United States or of the State of New Jersey, 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 as is required for such parking meter and as is designated by proper directions on the instruction signs or other signs in, on or adjacent to the parking areas or on the parking meter, and shall also set in operation the timing mechanism on such meter, and the failure to deposit such proper coin and to set the timing mechanism in operation shall constitute a violation of this chapter. Upon the deposit of such coin and the setting of the timing mechanism in operation, the parking space may be lawfully occupied by such vehicle during the period of time prescribed for the parking of the parking areas 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 so 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 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.
B. 
Parking meter fees. The charge for parking in metered parking zones or spaces shall be as set forth in § 680-57, Schedule XXIII, Subsection A, Parking lot meters, and Subsection B, Street meters.
[Amended by Ord. No. 1987-8; Ord. No. 1989-18; Ord. No. 1995-9; Ord. No. 2001-6; Ord. No. 2004-40; Ord. No. 2005-29]
A. 
Parking or standing a vehicle in a designated space in a parking area or section thereof shall be lawful upon the deposit of such proper coin for each hour or part of hour of parking time permitted by and as set forth on such instruction or other signs placed on or adjacent to the parking areas or sections thereof and referred to in §§ 680-15 and 680-17 of this chapter, as shall be applicable thereto.
B. 
Parking meters shall be operated and used in accordance with Schedule XXIII.
C. 
Parking or standing a vehicle in a designated space in a parking area, or section thereof, shall be lawful as parking time permitted by and as set forth by signs placed on or adjacent to the parking areas and referred to in § 680-15 of this chapter.
[Amended by Ord. No. 1989-18; Ord. No. 1993-17; Ord. No. 1995-19; Ord. No. 2001-6; Ord. No. 2003-19]
A. 
Permits authorized. Parking or standing a vehicle in a designated space in a permit parking zone shall be lawful upon the purchasing of a permit. Upon paying the proper fee, a permit identification will be issued and must be displayed on the vehicle when parked in the permit parking zone as described in Schedule XXIV.
B. 
Permit fees. Parking fees for permit parking shall be as follows:
(1) 
In all permit parking spaces.
[Amended 12-19-2006 by Ord. No. 2006-57; 2-22-2010 by Ord. No. 2010-7; 5-11-2016 by Ord. No. 2016-06]
(a) 
For a thirty-day permit: $180.
(b) 
For a three-month permit: $275.
(c) 
For a six-month permit: $500.
[Added by Ord. No. 19-85; amended by Ord. No. 2001-6]
A. 
No person shall park in any location designated as restricted parking spaces for use by Borough employees and/or Red Bank firemen who have been issued a special Borough of Red Bank identification decal. Said decal is to be affixed to said vehicle. Locations described in Schedule XXV.
B. 
No person shall park any truck, van, sport utility vehicle, full-length sedan, or any other oversized vehicle within any parking spaces within the municipal parking lots of the Borough designated as "compact car parking only" as specified in Schedule XX, which Schedule XX is hereby incorporated into and made a part of this chapter.
[Added 9-11-2019 by Ord. No. 2019-56]
[Amended by Ord. No. 1991-7; Ord. No. 1993-30; Ord. No. 1996-10; Ord. No. 1999-19; Ord. No. 2000-22; Ord. No. 2000-37; Ord. No. 2001-7; Ord. No. 2002-19; Ord. No. 2003-40; Ord. No. 2003-42; Ord. No. 2004-43; Ord. No. 2005-2]
A. 
No person shall park in any location designated as restricted parking spaces for use by persons who have been issued special vehicle identification cards by the Division of Motor Vehicles, same being described in Schedule XXVI.
B. 
All law enforcement officers may enforce the parking restrictions on legally marked handicapped spaces on both public and private property.
C. 
An eligible handicapped person may request a law enforcement officer to arrange for the removal and storage of a motor vehicle which is parked unlawfully in parking space or zone which is restricted for use by a handicapped person. The cost of removal, and any storage resulting from such removal, shall be paid by the owner of the motor vehicle.
D. 
Any person parking a motor vehicle in a restricted parking space without a special vehicle identification card shall be liable to a fine of $250 for the first offense and, for subsequent offenses, a fine of at least $250 and up to 90 days of community service, on such terms and in such form as the court shall deem appropriate, or any combination thereof.
[Amended by Ord. No. 1987-8]
It shall be unlawful and a violation of the provisions of this article for any person:
A. 
To cause or permit any vehicle registered in the name of or operated by such persons, to be parked overtime or beyond the period of legal parking time established for any parking areas described in Schedule XXIII.
B. 
To permit any vehicle to remain or be placed in a 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. 
To cause or permit any vehicle registered in the name of or operated by such person, to be parked in any permit parking area described in Schedule XXIV without having a permit to do so and displaying same on the sun visor of vehicle.
D. 
To park any vehicle across any line or marking of a parking space or in such position that the vehicle shall not be entirely within the area designated by such lines or markings.
E. 
To deface, injure, tamper with, open or willfully break, destroy or impair the usefulness of any parking meter under the provisions of this chapter.
F. 
To deposit or cause to be deposited in any parking meter any slugs, device or metal substance or other substitute for lawful coins.
G. 
To use any designated parking space or parking meter or any parking area otherwise than at the time and periods or otherwise than in the manner specified or shown on the instruction sign or other sign erected or to be erected from, in, on or adjacent to any parking area or contrary to any instructions appearing on the parking meter.
H. 
To park a vehicle in any municipal parking lot otherwise than by causing the vehicle to be parked head in, with the front of the vehicle toward or facing the curb or the closed front end of the parking space.
[Amended 10-28-2020 by Ord. No. 2020-20]
I. 
It shall be unlawful and a violation of the provisions of this article for any person to deposit or cause to be deposited in a parking meter a second or other coin for the purpose of extending or increasing the parking time of any vehicle beyond that which has been established for the parking space adjacent to which the meter is placed.
J. 
No vehicle shall be serviced or repaired on any municipal lot.
K. 
No person shall destroy or damage any sign or marking used in any on-street or off-street parking meter zone.
L. 
It shall be unlawful for the owner or operator of any vehicle to permit more than one vehicle, whether truck, car, or motorcycle, to be parked in any one parking space or stall.
M. 
No owner or operator of any motor vehicle shall park or permit to be parked, a motor vehicle upon any portion of an off-street parking lot not expressly laid out and designated for parking.
N. 
The owner or operator of a vehicle shall immediately upon entering a metered parking space deposit one or more coins of the United States of America in the parking meter adjoining such parking meter space and shall turn the lever to cause the parking meter to operate. Failure to deposit the required coin or coins, or to turn the lever to operate or to deposit a backup coin, shall constitute a violation of this article.
O. 
No owner or operator of a vehicle or other persons shall deposit any refuse or other materials on municipal lots.
It shall be the duty of the Chief of Police to designate some member or members of the Police Department, under the direction and supervision of the Borough Council, to make regular collections of the money deposited in the meters, and it shall be the duty of such person or persons so designated to remove from the parking meters, the sealed container therein containing the coins so deposited in the meters to and deliver such sealed containers, with the seals unbroken, to the Treasurer of the Borough, or to such other person or persons the Borough Council may designate, who shall under such regulations as may be established by the Borough Council, break the seals and count the funds and deposit such funds as directed by the Borough Council.
The funds and revenue received by the Borough from the collection of any coins deposited in the parking meters and the revenue collected for permit parking identification cards are hereby appropriated and dedicated to the cost of purchase, installation, maintenance and operation of the parking meters herein referred to and any excess thereof, are hereby appropriated and dedicated to the purpose of creation, purchase and construction, maintenance and operation of other off-street parking facilities.
[Amended by Ord. No. 2003-19]
Unless another penalty is expressly provided by New Jersey Statute, every person violating any of the provisions of this article shall, upon conviction thereof, be subject to a fine not to exceed $100, or be imprisoned for a term not to exceed 15 days, or both.
[Added by Ord. No. 1989-18]
Any unoccupied vehicle parked or standing in violation of Articles II, III and IV of this chapter shall be deemed a nuisance and a menace to the safe and proper regulation of traffic, and any police officer, and/or parking enforcement officer may provide for the removal of such vehicle. The owner shall pay the reasonable costs of the removal and storage, which may result from such removal before regaining possession of the vehicle.