It is hereby declared and found to be the intention
of the Town Board of the Town of North Hempstead that the regulation
of Town facilities is necessary to ensure the orderly maintenance
and use of the same by the residents of the Town.
Definitions. As used herein and unless otherwise expressly stated
or unless the context or subject matter otherwise requires, the following
terms shall have the meanings indicated:
Those parking spaces of the Town parking facilities wherein
parking shall be regulated and controlled by parking meters.
An area within a parking field designated for the parking
of a single vehicle by lines painted on or otherwise durably marked
upon the curb or the surface of the field.
The stopping of a vehicle and leaving such vehicle unattended
by a person capable of operating it.
Any individual, firm, partnership, association, corporation
or any other entity.
The stopping of a vehicle when such vehicle shall be occupied
by a person capable of operating it.
The bringing or coming of a vehicle from motion to rest or
halting or causing the same to cease from motion.
All property owned or leased by the Town, including but not
limited to the Town dock, Town beaches and parks, Department of Public
Works facilities and the Town Halls, together with all of the driveways,
parking areas and grounds surrounding the same.
Speed limit. No person shall operate any vehicle within any
Town property at a speed in excess of 15 miles per hour.
A.
No person shall park, stand or stop a vehicle at any
place within Town property except those places where parking, standing
or stopping shall be permitted or designated by resolution of the
Town Board.
B.
The Town Board may by resolution designate areas where
parking, standing or stopping shall be restricted to vehicles operated
by Town officials or personnel or others having official business
or rendering special services at the particular Town installation.
C.
The Supervisor or his agent is hereby authorized to
provide for the removal, by any person or agent designated by the
Town Board, of any vehicle to a garage, automobile pound or such other
appropriate place of safety if such vehicle is parked so as to obstruct
traffic and is unattended, or is parked and unattended, at any place
within Town property, except those vehicles parked in areas where
parking shall be permitted as designated by order of the Town Board.
The owner or other person lawfully entitled to the possession of such
vehicle may be charged with the reasonable cost for removal and storage,
payable before the vehicle is released.
The Town Board shall by order prescribe the direction in which
vehicles shall proceed and the places where vehicles shall stop, turn
or otherwise maneuver within Town property.
The Town Board shall cause such appropriate signs to be erected
and pavement markings to be made or other devices installed as shall
be deemed necessary for the enforcement of this local law or any order
authorized herein. Such signs, markings or devices shall be furnished,
installed and maintained by the Town department charged with the general
maintenance of Town property.
A.
Persons operating vehicles within Town property shall
at all time observe and obey the directions, orders and instructions
appearing upon or conveyed by signs, pavement markings or other devices
relating to the parking, standing or stopping of vehicles or the direction
in which vehicles shall be operated or the places or manner in which
vehicles shall be stopped, turned or otherwise maneuvered.
B.
Persons operating vehicles within Town property shall
at all times comply with the orders of any peace officer engaged in
the direction of traffic whether the same be given orally or by hand
signal.
A.
The Town Board shall designate by resolution those
parking spaces in the parking lots of Town facilities which shall
be designated as parking meter zones. The Town Board shall also designate
by resolution the number, location, time limitations and conditions
of parking within said parking meter zones.
B.
Manner of parking; deposit of coins. When any vehicle
shall be parked next to or adjacent to a parking meter, the owner
or operator of the vehicle shall park within the area designated by
the curb or marking lines as indicated for parallel or diagonal parking,
which meter spaces shall be so marked that vehicles will be required
to park solely within the space designated and controlled by the appropriate
meter, and so that no vehicle will be required to park in violation
of this section, and upon entering the parking space shall immediately
deposit in said meter a coin or coins of the United States, as indicated
by the instructions on the parking meter, at rates established by
the Town Board. It shall be unlawful for any person to fail to park
within the designated area, or fail or neglect to so deposit the proper
coin or coins.
C.
Deposit of coins not required when time is remaining
on the meter. Nothing in this section shall prevent the owner or operator
of a vehicle from parking his vehicle in a space without depositing
a coin, where it appears that the maximum legal parking limit has
not run since the deposit of the previous coin.
D.
Overtime parking. Upon the deposit of coins in a parking
meter pursuant to this section, a parking meter space may be then
used by a vehicle during the legal parking limit provided by this
Code and other ordinances of the Town, and the vehicle shall be considered
as unlawfully parked if it remains in said space beyond the legal
parking limit or when the parking meter displays a signal showing
illegal parking.
E.
Liability of vehicle owner. It shall be unlawful for
any person to cause or permit any vehicle registered in his name to
be unlawfully parked in violation of this section.
F.
Deposit of slugs. It shall be unlawful to deposit
or cause to be deposited in any parking meter any slug, device or
metallic substitute for a coin of the United States.
G.
Damaging or defacing meters. It shall be unlawful
for any person to deface, injure, tamper with, open, willfully break
or destroy a parking meter.
H.
Enforcement. It shall be the duty of each traffic
patrolman, or such other officer as shall be so instructed by the
Police Department, in his beat or district, to take the number of
any meter at which any vehicle is overparked, as provided in this
section, and the state vehicle tag number of such vehicle, and make
complaint therefor in the District Court, together with the length
of time during which the vehicle is parked in violation of any of
the provisions of this section, as well as any other facts, a knowledge
of which is necessary to a thorough understanding of the circumstances
attending such violations.
