A. 
The Fire Prevention Bureau of the Township of Union, in the County of Union, shall file with the Chief of Police of said Township an individual plan for each private public parking area to which this article shall be applicable. Said plan shall contain the outline of said parking area, together with such areas located therein as shall be designated as traffic or prohibited parking zones.
B. 
The individual plan herein mentioned shall be provided by the individual operator of each of the private public parking areas to be affected by this article, at the cost and expense of said individual operator, and shall be submitted by said operator to the Police Department.
A. 
Upon the receipt of any such individual plan by the Chief of Police, he shall cause to be designated, on said plan, traffic directional lanes and areas on which the parking of motor vehicles shall be prohibited as set forth under § 266-85 herein.
B. 
Every vehicle parked in said private public parking lots shall be parked in such a way that said vehicle shall be entirely within the limits of the parking space marked upon the pavement.
C. 
In the event of the installation of a cart corral as authorized by Section 11 of the ordinance adopted August 10, 1971, entitled "An Ordinance Regulating Shopping Carts in the Township of Union, County of Union and State of New Jersey," [1] then and in such event the stopping of motor vehicles shall be permitted in any area designated as a "no parking" or "no stopping or standing" area adjacent to such cart corral for such period of time required to transfer purchases from shopping carts to such stopped motor vehicles, provided that the operator of such motor vehicle remains at his motor vehicle.
[1]
Editor's Note: See Ch. 476, Shopping Carts.
A. 
Upon the completion of the aforesaid plan, the same shall become a public document filed in the office of the Township Clerk and in the Record Office of the Police Department of said Township and with the Department of Transportation of the State of New Jersey.
B. 
Changes may be made in the completed plan after filing upon proper application therefor to the Township Committee and approval thereof.
A. 
Appropriate signs and striping, where required, shall be provided in each individual public private parking area for which a plan is filed, as aforesaid and shall conform to the current Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices, pursuant to N.J.S.A. 39:4-198 and N.J.S.A. 39:4-183.27.
B. 
The cost of such signing and striping shall be borne by said operator.
The plans mentioned in § 266-80 of this article shall be provided by the individual operator of each of the private public parking areas to be affected by this article, and the cost of signing and striping such areas shall, likewise, be borne by said operator.
[Added 11-9-2022 by Ord. No. 5745]
A. 
Retail establishment parking areas shall provide for security guards to protect the personal property of those who utilize the parking area, during all hours of operation, unless otherwise deemed unnecessary by the Chief of Police.
B. 
One guard will be required for each parking area consisting of 500 or more parking spaces. In addition to the foregoing, any parking area consisting of 1,000 or more parking spaces will also provide for a roving patrol throughout the parking area by means of a motor vehicle. The expenses for the vehicle as well as the required security guards shall be borne by the owner of the premises.
C. 
Any security guard hired for the above purposes shall be in good general health and shall be subject to physical and psychological examinations prior to employment. Each guard shall be subject to an extensive criminal history background check by the Police Department prior to employment, and final hiring will be subject to the approval of the Chief of Police.
D. 
One guard will be required for each parking area consisting of 100 or more parking spaces up to 499 parking spaces. The security guard is to be provided for exterior security between the hours of dusk and dawn for those parking areas serving retail establishments open for business during all or a part of those dusk-to-dawn periods. The Chief of Police shall be the supervising Township authority hereunder.
[Added 11-9-2022 by Ord. No. 5745]
A. 
Any parking area whose retail business or businesses are to be open later than one hour after sunset or open earlier than one hour before sunrise shall be subject to the requirements of this section.
B. 
Illumination during the period beginning one hour after sunset until one hour before shall be as set forth hereunder:
(1) 
An average minimum illumination of 0.5 footcandle throughout the lot shall be maintained during the above referred to hours.
(2) 
Lighting fixtures which provide for parking area illumination shall be mounted at a height of not more than 25 or the height of the building, whichever is less, measured from the ground level to the center line of the light source.
(3) 
Lighting fixtures shall be spaced at a distance not to exceed five times the mounting height.
(4) 
Lighting shall be shaded in such a manner that no direct rays are visible to adjacent property owners or motorists using public streets.
C. 
All plans upgrading and/or implementing parking area security shall be subject to the approval of the Chief of Police.
A. 
The private public parking lots to be affected by this article and the areas subject to the regulations herein contained and the regulations applicable to this are as follows:
(1) 
1185 West Chestnut Street, Union, New Jersey.
(a) 
No parking anytime, entrance (thirty-five-foot width).
(b) 
No stopping or standing within 35 feet of the sides, back and front of the building.
(2) 
731 Route 22 West (and Sayre Road North), Union, New Jersey:
(a) 
No parking anytime, front of the building for a width of 35 feet.
(b) 
No stopping or standing within 35 feet of the building on the sides of the building.
(c) 
No stopping or standing in entrances or exits.
(3) 
1235 West Chestnut Street (at Route 22 West), Union, New Jersey (West Chestnut Street Mall):
(a) 
No parking anytime at the entrance.
(b) 
No stopping or standing within 35 feet of the building, side, rear and front.
(4) 
1000 Galloping Hill Road, Union, New Jersey (Union Hospital/Saint Barnabas Health Care System):
(a) 
No parking anytime, front entrance and emergency entrance.
(b) 
No stopping or standing at the sides of the building or driveway entrances or exits or within 35 feet of the building.
(5) 
203 Beech Spring Road, Union, New Jersey:
(a) 
No parking anytime, 35 feet from the building and along the front of the building.
(b) 
No stopping or standing at the back and sides within 35 feet of the building.
(6) 
1201 Stuyvesant Avenue, Union, New Jersey (Supermarket):
(a) 
No parking anytime, 35 feet from the building along the front and rear of the building.
(b) 
No stopping or standing 35 feet from the building along the sides of the building.
(7) 
Supermarket, 1319 Magie Avenue, Union, New Jersey:
(a) 
No parking anytime, 35 feet from the building in the front and at the entrances.
(b) 
No stopping or standing within 10 feet of any entrance, exit or Fire Department siamese hose connection along both sides of the building.
(8) 
650 Green Lane, Union, New Jersey (K. Hovnanian at Station Square):
[Added 2-10-2015 by Ord. No. 5333]
(a) 
The four main travel aisles through the complex shall be designated as both fire zones and fire lanes.
(9) 
(Reserved)
(10) 
1350 Galloping Hill Road, Union, New Jersey (Galloping Hill Shopping Center):
(a) 
No parking anytime and one-way traffic south for a width of 22 feet in front of stores.
(b) 
No stopping or standing within 35 feet of the sides and rear of the buildings.
(c) 
No stopping or standing in the exit lane for a width of 22 feet.
(11) 
2643 Morris Avenue, Union, New Jersey (supermarket):
(a) 
No parking anytime within 35 feet of the fronts of stores.
(b) 
No stopping or standing within 35 feet of the sides or backs of the buildings.
(c) 
No stopping or standing anytime within the entrance and exit lanes.
(12) 
2455 Route 22 West (and Springfield Road), Union, New Jersey (shopping center):
(a) 
No parking anytime within 35 feet of the fronts or sides of the buildings.
(b) 
No stopping or standing within the entrance or exit lanes.
(13) 
2445 Springfield Avenue (at Valley Street), Union, New Jersey:
(a) 
No parking anytime within 35 feet of the front of the stores.
(b) 
No stopping or standing within 35 feet of the sides or backs of the buildings.
(c) 
No stopping or standing within the entrance or exit lanes.
(14) 
342 Chestnut Street (and Galloping Hill Road), Union, New Jersey (Five Points Shopping Center):
(a) 
No parking anytime within 35 feet of the fronts of the stores.
(b) 
No stopping or standing at anytime within the entrance and exit lanes.
(15) 
2933 Vauxhall Road, Union, New Jersey (Millburn Mall):
(a) 
No parking anytime in the fronts of stores for a width of 35 feet.
(b) 
No stopping or standing for a width of 35 feet at all entrances, exits and rears and sides of buildings.
(16) 
1721 Morris Avenue (and Route 22 East), Union, New Jersey (shopping center):
(a) 
No parking anytime 35 feet from the fronts of the buildings.
(b) 
No stopping or standing within 35 feet of the sides or rears of the buildings.
(c) 
No stopping or standing at anytime within entrance or exit lanes.
A. 
Any person who shall violate the provisions of this article pertaining to parking or failing to follow directional signs shall, upon conviction, be liable to a penalty of not more than $50 or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 15 days, or both, in the discretion of the Judge of the Municipal Court.
B. 
Any person, firm or corporation failing to provide the plan herein set forth and failing or refusing to sign and stripe the lot, as herein provided for, shall, upon conviction for such failure, be subject to one or more of the following: a fine of not more than $2,000 or not more than 90 days' imprisonment or community service for not more than 90 days, at the discretion of the Judge of the Municipal Court.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]