As used in this division, the following terms shall have the meanings ascribed to them:
OPERATOR
Includes every individual who shall operate a vehicle as the owner thereof or as the agent, employee or permittee of the owner.
PARKING FIELDS
Any public parking field located within and under the jurisdiction of the Town of Oyster Bay Public Parking District in the Town.
RESTRICTED PARKING AREAS
Those parking field or areas where no vehicle shall park unless said vehicle bears a proper Town parking permit and sticker as defined by § 233-100 herein.
VEHICLE
Any vehicle by which any person or property may be transported upon a highway, except those operated upon rails or tracks.
The parking of motor vehicles or any other vehicles in all parking fields or portions thereof shall be regulated and controlled by the use of signs, or by parking meters erected on each parking field or portions thereof, designating the lawful period of time that a motor vehicle or any other vehicle may be parked therein.
(a) 
When any vehicle shall be parked next to a parking meter, the operator of the vehicle shall park within the area designated by the marking lines as indicated for parallel or diagonal parking.
(b) 
Upon entering a parking space in a parking meter zone, the operator or owner shall immediately deposit in the parking meter the amount of money prescribed by the Town Board as parking fees and posted on the parking meter.
(c) 
It shall be unlawful for any person to fail to park within the designated area, or to fail or neglect to deposit the proper coin or coins.
(d) 
The parking space may be used by such vehicles during the legal parking limit provided by the provisions of this Code and other ordinances of the Town, and a 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, except that 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.
(e) 
It shall be unlawful for any person to cause or permit any vehicle registered in his name to be unlawfully parked as set out in this section.
The Town Board is hereby authorized to adopt rules and regulations governing the use of said parking fields and from time to time to designate, by resolution, any or all of the said parking fields as restricted parking areas wherein the parking or standing of vehicles shall be permitted only as hereinafter provided. All such restricted areas shall be marked and indicated by suitable signs.
No vehicle shall be parked or permitted to stand in any of the restricted parking areas unless a proper permit and sticker, bearing the number of the permit and the year for which the same shall be issued, has been obtained for the vehicle from the Town Clerk and the sticker is affixed and conspicuously displayed on the rear of the vehicle, as directed by the Town Clerk. The Town Clerk is authorized, three months prior to the commencement of a permit year or permit period, to issue a permit and sticker for said permit year or permit period, which permit and sticker may be validly used during said three-month period and through the ensuing permit year or permit period.
(a) 
Permit requirements.
(1) 
Any person who is a domiciliary of the Town, but not a domiciliary of an incorporated village therein, may obtain a permit for parking a vehicle in any of the parking fields by making a written application to the Town Clerk, as License Commissioner, which application shall be on a form and contain such information and be accompanied by such documents as the Town Board may require.
(2) 
No permit shall be issued pursuant to this section unless it be for a vehicle owned by the applicant and/or a member of his household or a vehicle which is under exclusive possession, custody and control of the applicant and/or a member of their household.
(3) 
The Town Clerk, as License Commissioner, may require such documents as may, to her, seem necessary to determine whether an applicant is a domiciliary and whether the vehicle is owned by or under the exclusive possession, custody and control of the applicant and/or a member of his household.
(b) 
The permit period shall be two years, commencing on April 1 of every even-numbered year; fee for a permit and sticker pursuant to Subsection (a) shall be $100 for each two-year permit period, and for residents 62 years of age or older as of April 1 of the permit period shall be $20 for each two-year period. The fee for a permit issued after April 1 of any odd-numbered year shall be $50, and for residents 62 years of age or older as of April 1 of the permit period shall be $10, and said permit shall be valid up to and including the following March 31st. The amount of the fee for any permit period, or any part thereof, may be changed from time to time by resolution of the Town Board. The required fee shall be paid before the issuance of any permit or sticker.
(c) 
The fee for the replacement of any permit issued under this section shall be $1.
(a) 
Permit requirements.
(1) 
All persons who are domiciliaries of an incorporated village within the Town may obtain a permit for parking a vehicle in any of the parking fields by making a written application to the Town Clerk, as License Commissioner, which application shall be on a form and contain such information and be accompanied by such documents as the Town Board may require.
(2) 
No permit shall be issued pursuant to this section unless it be for a vehicle owned by the applicant and/or a member of his household or a vehicle which is under exclusive possession, custody and control of the applicant and/or a member of his household.
(3) 
The Town Clerk, as License Commissioner, may require such documents as may, to her, seem necessary to determine whether an applicant is a domiciliary and whether the vehicle is owned by or under the exclusive possession, custody and control of the applicant and/or a member of his household.
(b) 
The permit period shall be one year, commencing on April 1 of every year and terminating on March 31 of the following year. The fee for a permit and sticker pursuant to Subsection (a) shall be $120 for each one-year period, and for residents 62 years of age or older as of April 1 of the permit period the fee shall be $10 for each one-year period. The fee for a permit issued under this section on or after October 1 of any year shall be $60, and for residents 62 years of age or older as of October 1 of the permit period shall be $10, and said permit shall be valid up to and including the following March 31. The amount of the fee for any permit period, or any part thereof, may be changed from time to time by resolution of the Town Board. The required fee shall be paid before the issuance of any permit or sticker.
(c) 
The fee for the replacement of any permit issued under this section shall be $1.
All permits and stickers issued pursuant to this division and the rules and regulations made pursuant to this division to park motor vehicles in the designated areas are subject to space therein being available.
(a) 
In the event a vehicle for which a permit and sticker have been issued pursuant to this division is transferred to another person, the sticker shall be removed and destroyed.
(b) 
No person to whom a permit or sticker is issued pursuant to this division shall transfer such permit or sticker to another person.
(c) 
No person shall display on a vehicle or operate a vehicle on which is displayed a sticker which has been issued for another vehicle.
In the event a person has a permit revoked, no permit shall be issued to such person in that permit year unless the approval of the Town Board, or person or persons designated by it, is obtained.
No person shall deface, injure, change or tamper with any sign in any parking field.
In addition to any other prohibition stated in the provisions of this division, it shall be unlawful for any person to:
(a) 
Park any vehicle in a parking field other than within markers designating parking spaces.
(b) 
Disobey any instructions or directions contained in any sign posted in any parking field.
(c) 
Operate any vehicle within a parking field at a speed in excess of 10 miles per hour.
(d) 
Use any portion of a parking field for the sale or display for sale of any goods or merchandise.
(e) 
Distribute or throw any handbills, notices, or other type of advertising material in a parking field or in or on any vehicle parked therein, except official notices upon directions of the Town Board.
(f) 
Operate any vehicle so as to cross over any line marked on the surface of any parking field.
(g) 
Park any vehicle in a parking field for over 24 hours.
(h) 
Use any parking field as a through traffic means for any purpose.
(i) 
Loiter in any parking field.
(j) 
Bring or have an animal under his control in any parking field except when the animal is kept within the confines of the vehicle.
(k) 
Deposit in any parking meter, any slug, device or metallic substitute for a coin of the United States.
No commercial vehicle having a loading capacity exceeding one-half ton shall park or stand within any of the parking fields located within the Town of Oyster Bay Public Parking District except in such areas as may be specifically designated for said use by the Town Board pursuant to the provisions of this division or the rules and regulations adopted hereunder.
Any person who shall violate or suffer or permit anyone to violate any of the provisions of this division, or the rules and regulations adopted hereunder, and the owner of any vehicle operated or parked in violation of any of the provisions of this division, or the rules and regulations adopted hereunder, shall be guilty of an offense punishable as provided in § 233-2.
It shall be the duty of each traffic patrolman, or such other officer, as shall be so instructed by the county police department, in his beat or district, to take the number of any meter at which any vehicle is overparked, as provided in this division, and the state vehicle tag number of such vehicle, and make a complaint therefor in the District Court, First District, Mineola, New York, together with the length of time during which the vehicle is parked in violation of any of the provisions of this division, as well as any other facts, a knowledge of which is necessary to a thorough understanding of the circumstances attending such violations. In addition thereto, any vehicle parked in violation of any of the provisions of this division may be towed away and stored at the discretion of either the Town Board or the county police department, or any person authorized by the Town Board, at a cost not to exceed $10 for towing and $1 per day storage for each day the vehicle is stored, the cost to be paid by the owner of the vehicle before the vehicle may be redeemed. The towing and storage charges may be changed from time to time by resolution of the Town Board pursuant to the rules and regulations herein. Prior to towing and storing any vehicle as herein specified, it shall be the duty of the Town Board, or person directing the towing and storage, to notify the county police precinct having jurisdiction over the parking field from which the vehicle is to be towed, that such vehicle will be towed, by whom it will be towed and where the vehicle will be stored.
There are hereby established in the Town the following restricted parking thoroughfares requiring a Town parking permit and sticker in accordance with § 233-100 herein:
Section 233-111, Restricted Parking Area Thoroughfares
HICKSVILLE
Street
Side
Location
Station Plaza South
South
Starting at a point +/- 180 feet east of the east curbline of Newbridge Road, east to the west curbline of Jerusalem Avenue
West Barclay Street
North
Starting at the west curbline of the entrance to the Long Island Railroad Parking Field, west for a distance of +/- 955 feet
West Barclay Street
North
Between the northwest corner of the intersection of Wyckoff Street and West Barclay Street and the northeast corner of the intersection of Marion Place and West Barclay Street
West Barclay Street
South
Starting at the west curbline of the entrance to the Long Island Railroad Parking Field, west for a distance of +/- 955 feet
At the following listed locations, the parking of compact cars only shall be permitted:
Section 233-112, Parking Restricted to Compact Cars Only
HICKSVILLE
Street
Side
Location
Station Plaza South
South
Starting at a point +/- 180 feet east of the east curbline of Newbridge Road, east to the west curbline of Jerusalem Avenue