[Amended 3-5-2014 by
HO 2014-02]
For the purposes of this article, the following words and terms
shall have the meaning respectively ascribed to them by this section:
METERED PARKING SPACE
Any space within a parking meter zone in which parking is
controlled or regulated by a parking meter and which is duly designated
for the parking of a single vehicle by lines painted or otherwise
durably marked upon the curb or the surface of the street or parking
lot.
PARKING METER
Any device or meter, not inconsistent with this article,
placed or erected for the regulation of parking by the City measuring
the time that a vehicle may legally park in a metered parking space.
PARKING METER ZONE
Any street or highway or portion thereof and/or any parking
lot or portion thereof or other designated location set aside under
provisions of this article for parking according to times and rates
measured by a parking meter or parking meters.
[Amended 3-5-2014 by
HO 2014-02]
A. On-street parking meter zones. The City Council may by motion, resolution
or ordinance designate any streets or parts of streets as on-street
parking meter zones at a public meeting on the matter.
B. Off-street parking meter zones. The municipal parking lots or other
properties owned or leased by the City are hereby established as parking
meter zones.
C. All parking meters are presumed to be duly authorized by the City
if they have been placed on or near a roadway or City property.
D. All parking meter zones in existence at the time of passage of this
ordinance are hereby reaffirmed as parking meter zones.
E. The Council shall establish, from time to time, by motion, resolution
or ordinance the time periods when a payment will be required at a
parking meter and the amount of such payment in a parking meter zone.
Times and amounts in one parking meter zone or lot may reasonably
vary from the times and amounts in other parking meter zones or lots
in the City.
[Amended 3-5-2014 by
HO 2014-02]
Subject to the provisions of this article and except in a period
of emergency determined by the City or Police Department or in compliance
with the directions of a police officer or traffic control sign or
signal, when any vehicle is parked in any metered parking space, the
operator of such vehicle shall, upon entering such parking space,
immediately deposit or cause to be deposited in the parking meter
for that space such proper currency of the United States or other
payment as is required for such parking meter and as is designated
by directions on the meter. The operator of such vehicle, after the
deposit of the proper payment shall also set in operation the timing
mechanism on such meter, if any, in accordance with directions properly
appearing thereon. Upon the deposit of such currency or payment and
the setting of the timing mechanism in operation when so required
the parking space in question may be lawfully occupied by such vehicle
during the period of time which has been prescribed for the parking
lot or part of the street in which said parking space is located.
Parking or standing a vehicle in such a parking space shall only be
lawful for the period of time indicated by the parking meter upon
the payment as required by the instructions on each meter.
[Amended 3-5-2014 by
HO 2014-02]
A. It shall be unlawful for any person to cause, allow or permit any
vehicle registered in his/her name or any vehicle under his/her control
to be or remain parked or stopped in any metered parking space, for
any period of time without immediately making the required payment
in the parking meter pursuant to the directions on the meter controlling
the parking space.
B. It shall be unlawful for any person to permit any vehicle to remain
or be placed in any parking space in an area designated for municipal
employees or staff, unless the vehicle in question displays the applicable
permit.
C. It shall be unlawful 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 the parking space in question or to deposit in any parking meter
any payment for the purpose of parking beyond the maximum legal parking
time, if any for the particular parking meter zone or space.
D. It shall be unlawful for any person to park any vehicle across any
line or marking of a metered parking space or in such position that
the vehicle shall not be entirely within the parking space designated
by such lines or markings.
E. The loading or unloading of a truck, van or other commercial vehicle
may be conducted for a brief, reasonable period on a metered parking
space without making the applicable payment.
F. It shall be unlawful for any person to attempt to or 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.
G. It shall be unlawful for any person to counsel, aid or abet any violation
of this article or any failure to comply with this article.
H. The owner of any vehicle parked in violation of or failing to comply
with this article shall be prima facie responsible for such violation
or failure to comply.
[Amended 3-5-2014 by
HO 2014-02]
A. Authorized enforcement personnel as outlined in §
114-3 of this chapter shall issue a report or ticket for each violation. The violation notice shall contain:
(1) The location and number (as applicable) of the metered parking space
where the vehicle occupying it 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 date and approximate time of such violation.
(4) Any other facts, a knowledge of which is necessary to a thorough
understanding of the circumstances, attending the violation.
(5) An oath by the officer or designated employee be attached and certifying,
under penalty of perjury, that the matters set forth on said citation
are, to the best of his/her knowledge, true.
B. It shall be the duty of the person issuing the ticket or report to
submit to the appropriate City employee, official, or department written
notice of each violation of or failure to comply with the parking
requirements of this article.
C. The person issuing the ticket or report shall give the owner or driver
a copy of the report of violation or, in the event that said vehicle
is unattended, shall attach said notice in a conspicuous place upon
the vehicle.
[Amended 3-5-2014 by
HO 2014-02, 12-5-2016 by HO-2016-02]
A. Notification of right of trial. Upon notification or attachment to
the vehicle of said notice of violation, said notice shall notify
the defendant that the Defendant desires to stand trial the Defendant
may notify the Hyattsville Police Department or other designated City
department or agency at least five days before the payment date set
forth in the citation, and said department will obtain a trial date
within 15 days of the date of notification by the Defendant of the
Defendant's desire to stand trial. Further, said notice shall notify
the defendant of the right to stand trial.
B. Violation of any section of this article shall have a maximum fine
of up to $150 unless otherwise provided.
[Amended 1-17-1984 by
HB No. 5-84]
C. It shall be a misdemeanor to violate §
114-47(f) punishable by a fine of up to $1,000 and/or 60 days imprisonment in addition to an assessment of costs for repair/replacement of the parking meter.
[Amended 1-17-1984 by
HB No. 1-84; 12-17-1984 by HB
No. 10-84, 6-1-1998 by HR 98-02, 3-5-2014 by HO 2014-02]
If, upon receipt of a notice of violation herein, the owner
or operator of a vehicle in question shall pay to the City or the
City's agent designated on the notice the full amount of the fine
pursuant to 114-73 of this chapter.