[Ord. 10-20-1947, § 1]
For the purposes of this article the following words and phrases
shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section:
Includes every individual who shall operate a vehicle as
the owner thereof or as the agent, employee or permittee of the owner.
Any public street, avenue, road, boulevard, highway or other
public place located in the Village and established for the use of
vehicles.
Any device in, upon or by which any person or property is
or may be transported upon a highway, except a device which is operated
upon wheels or tracks.
[1961 Code]
In order to promote the safety of traffic upon the public square,
public streets, alleys and highways of the Village, there are hereby
established and fixed certain zones to be known and designated as
"parking meter zones" in and upon the public square, public streets
and highways within the corporate limits of the Village as follows:
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Name of Street
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Location
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Altgeld Street
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On the south side of Altgeld Street from Harlem Avenue on the
east to 72nd Court on the west
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Fullerton Avenue
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On the north side of Fullerton Avenue from Harlem Avenue on
the east to 73rd Avenue on the west
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Grand Avenue
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On the north side of Grand Avenue from Harlem Avenue on the
east to 76th Avenue on the west
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Grand Avenue
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On the south side of Grand Avenue from Harlem Avenue on the
east to 75th Avenue on the west
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Harlem Avenue
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On the west side of Harlem Avenue from Altgeld Street on the
north to the alley north of Grand Avenue
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72nd Court
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On both sides of 72nd Court from Grand Avenue on the south to
Altgeld Street on the north
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73rd Avenue
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On the east side of 73rd Avenue from Grand Avenue to the alley
north of Grand Avenue
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73rd Court
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On the east side of 73rd Court from Grand Avenue to the alley
north of Grand Avenue
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[10-20-1947, § 1]
The police department of the Village shall have lines or markings
painted or placed upon the curb or upon the street adjacent to each
parking meter for the purpose of designating the parking space for
which the meter is to be used and each vehicle parked adjacent or
next to any parking meter shall park within the lines or markings
so established. It shall be unlawful and a violation of this article
to park any vehicle across any such line or marking or to park such
vehicle in such a position that the same shall not be entirely within
the area so designated by such lines or markings.
[10-20-1947, § 1]
When a parking space in any parking meter zone is parallel with
the adjacent curb or sidewalk, any vehicle parked in such parking
space shall be parked so that the foremost part of such vehicle shall
be nearest to the parking meter; when a parking space in any parking
meter zone is diagonal to the curb or sidewalk, any vehicle parked
in such parking space shall be parked with the foremost part of such
vehicle nearest to such meter.
[10-20-1947, § 1]
The time limit for parking in parking meter zones and the charge
made for the use of each of the parking spaces, shall be in effect
on each day, except Sundays and Holidays, from the hour of 8:00 a.m.
to 6:00 p.m., except on Monday and Thursday, on which days the hours
shall be from the hour of 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
[5-2-1949, § 1]
The time limit for parking in the zones designated in Section 32-35 shall be as provided by the President and Board of Trustees, to be plainly indicated upon such parking meter. Each of the parking meters shall be so set as to display a signal showing legal parking on deposit of the proper coin or coins of money of the United States of America for the period of time conforming to the parking limit now or hereafter provided by the President and Board of Trustees.
[10-20-1947, § 1]
The President and Board of Trustees, with the advice and assistance of the Chief of Police, is hereby authorized and directed to cause to be installed or placed, parking meters in the parking meter zones, created in Section 32-35 or to be created hereafter by other ordinances of the Village. Such parking meters shall be placed upon the curb alongside of or next to individual parking spaces, to be designated as hereinafter provided. Each of the parking meters shall be so set as to show or display a signal that the parking space alongside of it is or is not in use.
The President and Board of Trustees shall provide for the installation,
regulation, control, operation and use of the parking meters provided
for in this article and shall maintain such meters in a good, workable
condition; that each parking meter shall be so set as to display a
signal showing legal parking upon the deposit of the proper coin of
the United States of America, therein, as set forth for a period of
time conforming to the parking limit now or hereafter provided by
the President and Board of Trustees for the part of the public square,
public streets, alleys and highways within the corporate limits of
the Village, upon which the meter is placed; and each meter shall
by its device, clearly set out and continue in operation from the
time of depositing such coin or coins, until the expiration of the
time fixed by the President and Board of Trustees as the parking limit
for the part of the public square, public streets, alleys and highways
upon which such meter is placed. Each meter shall also be so arranged
that upon the expiration of the parking limit, it will indicate by
a mechanical operation and the dropping of a proper signal that the
lawful parking period as fixed by the President and Board of Trustees
has expired.
[10-20-1947, § 1]
It shall be unlawful for any person to deposit or cause to be deposited in a parking meter, a coin or coins for the purpose of extending the parking time fixed as provided for by this article for parking in the parking space alongside of or next to which such parking meter is placed, with the intent of parking beyond the limit so fixed in Section 32-39.
[Ord. 5-2-1949, § 1]
When any vehicle shall be parked in any space alongside of or
next to which there is located, under this article, a parking meter,
the owner, operator, manager or driver of the vehicle, shall, upon
entering the parking space, immediately deposit the proper coin or
coins, for the parking time desired, in the parking meter alongside
of or next to the parking space and the parking space may then be
used by such vehicle during the parking limit provided in this article
for the part of the public square, public street, alleys or highways
in which the parking space is located. If such vehicle shall remain
parked in any such parking space beyond the parking limit fixed as
provided in this article, the parking meter shall display a sign showing
illegal parking and in that event, such vehicle shall be considered
as parked overtime and beyond the time fixed as provided for in this
article. The parking of a vehicle overtime or beyond the period of
time so fixed in any such part of the public square, public streets,
alleys or highways, within the corporate limits of the Village where
any such meter is located, shall be a violation of this article. It
shall be unlawful for any person to cause, allow, permit or suffer
any such vehicle, registered in his name to be parked overtime or
beyond the lawful period of time as above described. It shall also
be unlawful and a violation of this article for the operator of any
vehicle upon entering a parking space within any of the parking meter
zones, as created by this article to neglect or fail to deposit or
cause to be deposited a coin or coins as hereinabove provided for.
[Ord. 10-20-1947, § 1]
It shall be unlawful to deposit or cause to be deposited in
any parking meter, any slug, device or metallic substitute or any
other substitute, for a coin of money of the United States of America.
[Ord. 10-20-1947, § 1]
It shall be unlawful for any person to deface, injure, tamper
with, open or wilfully break, destroy or impair the usefulness of
any parking meter installed under the provisions of this article.
[Ord. 10-20-1947, § 1; Ord. 97-35, 10-20-1997, § 1]
The President and Board of Trustees and the Village Clerk are
hereby vested with the power and authority to enter into a contract
for the purchase and installation of parking meters. The payment for
such meters and installation thereof, is to be provided for solely
from the funds and revenues obtained from the operation of parking
meters, without in any manner obligating the Village to pay for the
same from any other sources; that all of the funds and revenues obtained
from the operation of the parking meters shall be placed in the hands
of the Finance Director and the Finance Director is hereby directed
to create a special fund, into which all of such revenues and funds
shall be placed and used solely to provide for the proper regulation
and control of traffic upon the public square, public streets, alleys
and highways of the Village 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 purchase, supervision, protection, inspection,
installation, operation, maintenance, control and use of the parking
meters described herein, and also for any other municipal purpose.
[Ord. 10-20-1947, § 1; Ord., 8-19-1974, § 1]
It shall be the duty of the police officers of the Village to
report:
(a)
The number of each parking meter which indicated 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 article;
(b)
The state license number of such vehicle;
(c)
The length of time during which such vehicle is parked in violation
of any of the provisions of this article;
(d)
Any other facts, the knowledge of which is necessary to a thorough
understanding of the circumstances attending such violation.
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Each such police officer of the Village shall also attach to such vehicle a notice to the owner or operator thereof that his vehicle has been parked in violation of a provision of this article and instructing such owner or operator to report at the office of the police department of the Village in regard to such violation; that each such owner or operator may, within 24 hours of the time when such notice was attached to such vehicle pay to the police department as a penalty for and in full satisfaction of such violation, the sum of $3. The failure of such owner or operator to make such payment within the 24 hours, shall render such owner or operator subject to the penalty provided for in Section 13-3 of this Code.
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