Wherever a space is marked off for the parking of an individual vehicle, every vehicle parked there shall be parked wholly within the lines bounding that space, and it shall be a violation of this chapter for any person to park a vehicle or allow it to remain parked otherwise.
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Editor's Note: Former § 195-8, Overnight parking prohibited, was repealed 6-13-2022 by Ord. No. 715.
If any person parks a vehicle on public or private property reserved for a handicapped person or severely disabled veteran where the vehicle does not display the appropriate sticker authorizing such use or where the vehicle displays such sticker but the operator is not handicapped or a severely disabled veteran and no handicapped person or severely disabled veteran is being transported by the vehicle, then the operator of said vehicle shall be subject to a fine as set forth in the Borough Fee Schedule.
No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle at any time upon any of the streets or parts thereof where appropriate signs are posted. The penalty for such violation is as set forth in the Borough Fee Schedule.
It shall be unlawful for any person to park any vehicle or to allow the same to remain parked in any special purpose parking zone where appropriate signs are posted or appropriately marked. The penalty for such violation is as set forth in the Borough Fee Schedule.
No person shall park a vehicle upon any of the streets or parts of streets where appropriate signs are posted and as listed in Schedule I in § 195-37. The penalty for such violation is as set forth in the Borough fee schedule.
Any Wayne County resident who secures from the County Area Agency on Aging a sticker to be displayed on the rear bumper authorizing free meter parking on Thursdays and Fridays from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon shall be authorized to park free of the obligation to deposit coins in the meters during those hours or such other hours as approved by the Borough Council.
A. 
Prohibition. No person shall park any commercial motor vehicle on any street located within any area of the Borough which shall be zoned as an R-1, R-2, R-3, R-4, R-5 or R-6 District as depicted upon the Official Zoning Map of the Borough,[1] except for the temporary purpose of making local deliveries.
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Editor's Note: The Zoning Map is on file in the Borough offices.
B. 
Definition. For purposes of this section, the term "commercial motor vehicle" shall be defined as any motor vehicle displaying any of the following characteristics:
(1) 
Three or more axles, regardless of weight;
(2) 
Designed or primarily used for drawing other vehicles or trailers and not so constructed as to carry a load other than a part of the weight of the vehicle and load so drawn;
(3) 
A registered gross weight, as that term is defined in 75 Pa.C.S.A. § 102, in excess of 20,000 pounds.
(4) 
Designed or primarily used to provide service as a common or contract carrier of property, passengers, household goods in use, or other motor carrier as such terms are defined in 75 Pa.C.S.A. § 102, 67 Pa. Code § 21.1 or 52 Pa. Code § 32.202 or equivalent enactments of any other state or government;
(5) 
Bearing or required to bear proportional registration issued or recognized pursuant to 75 Pa.C.S.A., Chapter 61, Subchapter C, and agreements entered into or regulations promulgated hereunder, or the equivalent enactments of any other state or government;
(6) 
Bearing or required to bear bus registration as specified in 67 Pa. Code § 41.5(a), (c), (d), or (e);
(7) 
Bearing or required to bear a decal or other identification marker pursuant to 75 Pa.C.S.A., Chapter 21, or the equivalent enactments of any other state or government;
(8) 
If used in combination with another motor vehicle, said combination has a registered gross weight exceeding 20,000 pounds.
C. 
Streets serving as district boundaries. For the purposes of this section, if one side of any street shall lie within a zoning district specified in Subsection A hereof, but the other side does not, then both sides of the street shall be deemed to lie within the more restrictive zoning district.
D. 
Employer liability. When a commercial motor vehicle is parked in violation of this section, the employer of the person operating or otherwise in custody or control of said vehicle and the owner thereof shall also be deemed to be in violation of this section and shall be subject to the imposition of penalties as hereinafter specified, separate and additional to those imposed upon his, her, or its employee.
E. 
Violations. The penalty for such violation as set forth in the Borough Fee Schedule.
Any person who violates any provision of this chapter shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine as listed in the Vehicles and Traffic Fee Schedule for Honesdale Borough. However, it shall be the duty of the police officers or parking enforcement officers of the Borough to report to the Borough of Honesdale all violations of any provision of this article, indicating, in each case, the section violated, the license number of the vehicle involved in the violation, the location where the violation took place and any other facts that might be necessary in order to secure a clear understanding of the circumstances attending the violation. The police officer or parking enforcement officer making the report shall also attach to or place upon every such vehicle a notice stating that the vehicle was parked in violation of this article. The notice shall contain instructions to the owner or driver of vehicle to make payment at any fine-o-meter boxes or City Hall for the sum of violation within 24 hours. After 24 hours all fines increase. If such fine is not paid within a seven-day period, the matter shall be referred to the District Justice for nonpayment. All fines and penalties are as provided in the Vehicles and Traffic Fee Schedule.