As used in this division, the following terms shall have the
meanings ascribed to them:
The stopping of a motor vehicle or motorcycle upon any public
highway and leaving the motor vehicle or motorcycle unattended by
a person capable of operating it for a period longer than necessary
to load or unload passengers or freight.
Any public street, avenue, road, boulevard, highway, square,
lane, or other public place located in Massapequa, in the Town, and
established for the use of vehicles.
Any device by which any person or property may be transported
upon a highway, except those operated upon rails or tracks.
Parking meter zones are hereby designated and established as
being those streets and parts of streets upon which limited parking
is now permitted under authority and by virtue of this article, and
the parking limits and restrictions established for Massapequa and
Oyster Bay Hamlet are hereby incorporated in this division for all
uses and purposes applicable to the conditions, terms and enforcement
hereof, and such other parking meter zones as may be hereafter created
by the Town Board, but spaces designated as "bus stops," "taxi stands"
and "loading zones" shall be excluded from parking meter zones.
The Town Board, as commissioners of the Town of Oyster Bay Park
and Parking District, shall provide for the installation, regulation,
control, operation and use of the parking meters provided for in this
division, and shall cause the meters to be maintained in good workable
condition. Meters shall be placed upon the curb next to individual
parking places, and meters shall be so constructed as to display a
signal showing legal parking upon deposit therein of the proper coin
or coins of the United States as indicated by instructions on the
meter, and for a period of time conforming to the parking limits of
the Town, which signal shall remain in evidence until expiration of
the parking period so designated, at which time a change of signal
or some other mechanical operation shall indicate expiration of said
parking period.
Parking shall be controlled and limited by parking meters on
the following streets, avenues and highways:
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Parking meters established pursuant to this division shall be
operated in parking meter zones each day between the hours of 7:00
a.m. and 5:00 p.m., except Saturdays, Sundays and holidays; however,
within the meaning of this division, the term "holiday" shall include
the following days only: New Year's Day, Lincoln's Birthday,
Washington's Birthday, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor
Day, Columbus Day, Election Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving Day and
Christmas Day.
When any vehicle shall be parked next to a parking meter, the
owner or operator of the vehicle shall park within the area designated
by the curb or street marking lines as indicated for parallel or diagonal
parking, which parking meter spaces shall be so marked that vehicles
shall be required to park parallel with the curb or edge of the pavement
on any state highway, and so that no vehicle will be required to park
in violation of Section 86.7 of the Vehicle and Traffic Law, or this
article, and upon entering the parking space, the owner or operator
of the vehicle shall immediately deposit in the meter such a coin
or coins of the United States as may be prescribed in the instructions
on the meter, at a rate to be established by the Town Board.
A parking space may, upon the deposit of the correct amount
of coins, be used by a vehicle during the legal parking limit provided
by this article 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 and/or when the parking meter displays
a signal showing illegal parking.
Nothing in this division shall prevent the owner or operator
of a vehicle from parking his vehicle in a space without depositing
a coin as aforesaid, where it appears that the maximum legal parking
limit has not run since the deposit of the previous coin.
It shall be unlawful for any person to cause or permit any vehicle
registered in his name to be parked in violation of this division.
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.
It shall be unlawful for any person to deface, injure, tamper
with, open, willfully break or destroy any parking meter.
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 to take the necessary action
for the enforcement of this division in the District Court of the
County of Nassau in accordance with existing procedures, together
with the length of time during which said 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 violation.
Any offense against any of the provisions of this division shall be punishable pursuant to § 233-2 of this chapter.
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