Parking shall be prohibited at all times in the following locations:
Street (Roadway Width)
Side
Between
Bartman Avenue
North
SR-0073 to Village Green Drive
Brookside Drive
West
Sweinhart Road to Cleaver Road
Congo Road
Both
SR-0073 to Smith Road
Gilbertsville Road
Both
Swamp Pike to Douglass Township Boundary
Grosser Road
Both
Gilbertsville Road to SR-0100
Martin Avenue
Both
Gilbertsville Fire and Rescue and cul-de-sac
SR-0073
Both
Douglass Township Boundary to Douglass Township Boundary
Parking shall be prohibited at all times in the following locations:
A. 
Definitions. For the purpose of this section, words and terms listed in this subsection, as follows, shall have the following meanings:
RECREATIONAL VEHICLE
An enclosed piece of equipment dually used both as a vehicle, a temporary travel home or full-time home. Recreational vehicles shall include the following: truck, camper, folding trailer, travel trailer, teardrop trailer, park model, boat, boat trailer, tote home, toy hauler, motor coach, motor home, or any similar vehicle.
B. 
It shall be unlawful for any person to park or to allow remained parked, a recreational vehicle on any street, alley, or roadway within Douglass Township, except as permitted in this section.
Maximum Parking Time
Period of Time
72 hours
30 consecutive calendar days
C. 
The thirty-calendar-day period shall be counted from the first day of parking, during the seventy-two-hour period and 29 days thereafter.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Original Section 15-403D of the 1986 Code of Ordinances, Penalties, which immediately followed this subsection, was repealed at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I). See now § 249-39.
No person shall park a vehicle, or allow it to remain parked, for longer than the time indicated, in any of the following locations, at any time on the days and between the hours indicated:
Street
Side
Between
Days
Hours
4th Street
West
Montgomery Avenue and Township Line
Monday - Saturday
6:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. No parking
5th Street
East
Township Line and Montgomery Avenue
Sunday - Saturday
8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. 2-hour parking
It shall be unlawful for any person to park a vehicle or to allow the same to remain parked, at any time between 8:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m. on any of the following portions of the highways of the Township, on the days hereby respectively designated for street sweeping purposes:
Street
Between
Day
(Reserved)
A. 
Findings and purposes. The Township finds that:
(1) 
Certain residential areas in the Township are subject to commuter vehicle parking; therefore, depriving the residents of those areas of spaces in which to park their own vehicles;
(2) 
Those residential streets are also subjected to a high degree of commuter traffic which substantially reduces the quality of ambient air level; and
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
(3) 
The establishment of a parking permit program for certain affected areas should facilitate efficient movement of traffic by providing for parking preference during certain hours of the day and days of the week; therefore, the Board considers it to be in the interest of the residents of the Township to provide for the establishment of a residential permit parking program to insure primary access to available parking spaces by neighborhood residents and also to provide a cleaner ambient air level.
B. 
Definitions. For the purpose of this section, words and terms listed in this subsection, as follows, shall have the following meanings:
COMMUTER VEHICLE
A motor vehicle parked in a residential area by a person not a resident of that residential area;
PROPRIETOR
A person who owns or leases real estate within a residential area of which he is not a resident, but who owns or manages a business enterprise or professional office maintained at that address; for the purpose of this section, a proprietor shall be entitled to one parking permit for that business or professional office address;
RESIDENT
A person who owns or leases real property within a residential area and who maintains either a voting residence, or bona fide occupancy, or both, at that address;
RESIDENTIAL AREA
A contiguous area containing pubic highways or parts of public highways primary abutted by residential property or residential and nonbusiness property (such as schools, parks, places of worship, hospitals, and nursing homes).
C. 
Criteria. The residential areas designated in § 249-38D are those deemed impacted and hence eligible for residential parking on the basis of the following criteria:
(1) 
During any period between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 6:30 p.m., Monday through Saturday, except legal holidays, the number of vehicles parked (or standing), legally or illegally, on the streets in area is equal 70% or more of the legal, on-street parking capacity of the area. For the purpose of this criterion, a legal parking space shall be 20 linear feet.
(2) 
During the same period as specified in § 249-38C(1), directly above, 10% or more of the vehicles parked (or standing) on the streets in the area are not registered in the name of the person residing in the area. For the purpose of this criterion, the latest available information from the Bureau of Motor Vehicles and Licensing of the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation regarding registration of motor vehicles shall be used.
(3) 
Provide. In determining that a specific area identified as impacted and eligible for residential permit parking is designated as a residential permit parking area, the following factors are taken into consideration:
(a) 
The local and metropolitan needs with respect to clean air and environment;
(b) 
The possibility of a reduction in total vehicle miles driven in the Township;
(c) 
The likelihood of alleviating traffic congestion, illegal parking and related health and safety hazards;
(d) 
The proximity of public transportation to the residential area;
(e) 
The desire and need of the residents for residential permit parking and then willingness to bear the administrative cost in connection with it; and
(f) 
The need for parking in excess of the residential permit parking in proximity to establishments located in the residential permit parking area and used by the general public for religious, health or educational purposes.
D. 
Designation of residential permit parking areas:
(1) 
The following areas are designated as residential permit parking areas:
Area
Bounded by and Including
(Reserved)
(2) 
Signs shall be erected along the streets in each residential permit parking area, indicating the days, hours, locations and conditions under which parking shall be by permit only.
E. 
Application for permit. Application for a residential parking permit shall be made to the Chief of Police by the person desiring the permit, who shall be only the owner or the driver of a motor vehicle who resides on or is a proprietor of property immediately adjacent to a street or other location within a residential permit parking area. A separate application shall be required for each motor vehicle, and each application shall be accompanied by a permit fee, set pursuant to a resolution of the Board of Supervisors, which shall be for the use of the Township, to be applied to the cost of administering the residential permit parking program. Each applicant shall contain the following information: name of the owner or driver, as the case may be, of the motor vehicle; address of the resident or proprietor, as the case may be; the make and model, and registration number of the motor vehicle; and the driver number as taken from the applicant's current driver's license. At the discretion of the Chief of Police, the applicant shall be required, at the time of making application, to present his driver's license and the vehicle registration card.
F. 
Issuance of permit. Upon receipt of application and permit fee, and determination by him that the information upon the application shows that the applicant is entitled to a residential parking permit, the Chief of Police shall issue the applicant a residential parking permit, which shall be valid for the remainder of the calendar year. The permit shall display the serial and registration numbers of the motor vehicles, the residential parking number, and the expiration date. The permit shall be renewable annually before the expiration date, upon making the application for renewal and payment of the permit fee. It shall be unlawful and a violation of this section for any person to display other than the current and valid permit while standing or parking in a residential permit parking area at any time when those permits are to be displayed.
G. 
Temporary and exemption parking permit. Temporary parking permits may be issued by the Chief of Police, upon payment of a fee established pursuant to a resolution, to bona fide visitors of residents or a designated residential permit parking area, and exemption parking permits may be issued, without payment of a fee, to handicapped persons.
H. 
Responsibility of permit holder:
(1) 
Not with standing any provision of this section to the contrary, the holder of a residential parking permit shall be permitted to stand or park a motor vehicle operated by him in any designated residential permit parking area during those times when parking motor vehicles is permitted in that area. While a vehicle for which a residential parking permit has been issued is so parked, that permit shall be displayed so as to be clearly visible through the windshield of the vehicle. A residential parking permit shall not guarantee or reserve to the holder a parking space within a designated residential permit parking area.
(2) 
A residential parking permit shall not authorize its holder to stand or park a motor vehicle in any place where or at any time when stopping, standing, or parking of motor vehicles is prohibited or set aside for other specified types of vehicles is prohibited or set aside for other specified types of vehicles, nor shall the permit exempt its holder from the observance of any traffic or parking regulation or restriction.
(3) 
No person other than the permit holder whose name appears on the permit shall use a residential parking permit or display it on a vehicle operated; any such use or display by a person other than the permit holder shall constitute a violation of this section by the permit holder and by the person who so used or displayed the parking permit.
(4) 
It shall constitute a violation of this section for any person to falsely represent himself as eligible for a residential parking permit or to furnish false information in an application to the Chief of Police in order to obtain a residential parking permit.
I. 
Revocation of permits. The Chief of Police shall have the authority to revoke the residential parking permit of any permit holder found to be in violation of any provision of this section. Upon written notification to him of the revocation, the permit holder shall surrender the permit to the Chief of Police. Failure to do so, when so requested, shall constitute a violation of this section. Provided; any person receiving such a notice may, within 10 days after the date of the notice, appeal to the Board of Supervisors for a hearing on the revocation, and the decision of the Board of Supervisors for a hearing on the revocation, and the decision of the Board of Supervisors shall be final.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
A. 
Any person who violates any provision of this article, except for § 249-34, shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than $15 and costs, provided it shall be the duty of the police officers and of parking enforcement personnel of the Township to report to the appropriate official 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 other facts that might be necessary in order to secure a clear understanding of the circumstances attending the violation. The police officer or other person 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 the driver of the vehicle that if he will report to the office of the Chief of Police and pay the sum of $10 within 48 hours after the time of the notice, or if he will place a sum of $10, enclosed within the envelope provided, in any of the special parking fine boxes installed at various locations within the Township, that act will save the violator from prosecution and from payment of the fine and costs prescribed in the first sentence of this section.
B. 
Any person who violates § 249-34 of this article shall, upon conviction, shall be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than $50 plus costs of prosecution and, in the event the recreational vehicle is not removed, shall be subject, upon conviction, to additional fines of $50 plus costs of prosecution for every 72 hours thereafter.