[Adopted 6-20-1955 by Ord. No. 704 (Ch. 71, Art. II, of the 1966 Code)]
[Amended 4-4-1957 by Ord. No. 752]
Parking meters shall be installed and parking meter spaces designated and marked on the following sections of streets or parking meter zones in the Borough of Clearfield.
Name of Street
Location
Cherry Street
From Front Street to Fourth Street
Fourth Street
From Pine Street to Cherry Street
Front Street
From Pine Street to Walnut Street
Locust Street
From Front Street to Fourth Street
Market Street
From Water Street to Fourth Street
Pine Street
From Front Street to Fourth Street
Second Street
From Bridge Street to Walnut Street
Third Street
From Bridge Street to Walnut Street
[Amended 6-7-1956 by Ord. No. 732]
The Mayor or such officers or employees of the Borough as he may select shall provide for the installation, regulation, control, operation and use of the parking meters provided for in this article and shall maintain said meters in good, workable condition. Each parking meter shall be set to display a signal showing legal parking upon deposit of a $0.01, $0.05, $0.10, or $0.25 coin of the United States, and Council shall determine the length of time parking is permissible in an individual parking space for which a meter is installed upon deposit of any coin set out above or upon deposit of any combination of said coins, provided that notice to the public shall be given by appropriate notices attached to said meters setting forth the length of time for which parking is permitted and the conditions thereof.
Each meter shall by its device clearly set out and continue in operation from the time of depositing such coin or coins until the expiration of the time paid for by the deposit of such coin or coins as herein provided, and each said meter shall also be arranged that upon expiration of said parking limit, it will indicate by a mechanical operation and the display of a proper signal that the lawful parking period has expired.
When any vehicle shall be parking in any space alongside of or next to which there is located, under this article, a parking meter, the owner, operator, manager or driver of said vehicle shall upon entering the said parking space immediately deposit one or more coins of the United States as provided in § 485-58 hereof in the parking meter alongside of or next to the said parking space, and said parking space may be used by said vehicle during the parking limit so paid for.
If said vehicle shall remain parked in any such parking space beyond the parking limit fixed for such space, the parking meter shall display a sign showing illegal parking, and the parking of a vehicle overtime or beyond the period of time fixed in any such part of a street where any such meter is located shall be a violation of this article and punishable as hereinafter provided.
It shall be unlawful and an offense for any person to permit a vehicle to remain or be placed in any parking space alongside of or next to which any parking meter is placed while said meter is displaying a signal showing that such vehicle shall have already been parked beyond the period of time for which the coin or coins deposited permitted such vehicle to be parked.
Any vehicle parked in any parking space in a parking meter zone shall be parked wholly within the parking meter spaces designated and marked off and with the right front wheel of said vehicle adjacent to said parking meter.
[Amended 10-17-1996 by Ord. No. 1210[1]]
Each parking meter shall be in operation and the provisions of this article regulating such operation shall be in force between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. prevailing time on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, but shall not be in operation on Saturday and Sunday and shall not be in operation on the following legal holidays: New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.
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Editor's Note: This ordinance also provided that it shall become effective 1-1-1997.
It shall be unlawful and a violation of this article for any person to deface, injure, tamper with, open or willfully break, destroy or impair the usefulness of any parking meter installed under the terms of this article, provided that this shall not prohibit the authorized opening of or working upon any parking meter by any Borough officer or employee or other person by authority of the Mayor.
[Amended 5-2-1963 by Ord. No. 883; 12-3-1981 by Ord. No. 1113; 4-20-1995 by Ord. No. 119; 4-22-2003 by Ord. No. 1255]
A. 
It shall be the duty of the police of the Borough to make reports to the Mayor designating the parking meter where any violation of this article occurs, the license number of the vehicle involved in such violation, the time when such vehicle was parked in violation of this article and any other facts which may be necessary in order to secure a clear understanding of the circumstances attending such violation. The police officer making such report shall also attach to every such vehicle a violation notice in the form the same as or substantially similar to that which has been attached hereto and incorporated herein by reference as Exhibit A,[1] stating that such vehicle was parked in violation of this article, which notice shall contain instructions to such owner or operator to report to the office of the Mayor; which owner or operator having received notice of a violation of this article, may within 24 hours of the time when such notice was given or attached to the vehicle, pay to the Mayor as a penalty the sum of $1 for an initial violation, $3 for the first over parking violation, $5 for the second over parking violation, and $5 for the third and any subsequent over parking violation within the same space. Said initial fine in whatever amount as determined above shall be increased to $10 after 24 hours shall have passed from the original date and time of the violation. Said violation shall be increased to the amount of $15 plus court costs after a period of time of seven days shall have passed from the original date and time of violation. Notice of the seven-day violation shall be sent to the owner or operator of said vehicle by mail setting forth thereon that a violation of this article has occurred and the time and date of said violation and that a period of seven days has passed from the original date and time of said violation. Any future changes to the penalty provisions of this subsection may be made by way of passage of a resolution of Clearfield Borough Council rather than by ordinance.
[Amended 4-20-2006 by Ord. No. 1286; 9-21-2017 by Ord. No. 1344]
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Editor's Note: Said Exhibit A is on file in the Borough offices.
B. 
That there shall be no limitation as to the number of tickets evidencing a violation to be placed on any vehicle within any particular time period except that a period of one hour must have passed since the last violation citation of the vehicle.
[Amended 5-2-1963 by Ord. No. 883]
Any person violating any of the provisions of this article shall, upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than $1 or more than $50 and costs of prosecution and, in default of payment of such fine and costs, to imprisonment in the Borough lockup or county jail for not more than 10 days, provided that the payment to the Mayor within the time limit and under the circumstances provided of the penalty set out in § 485-66 hereof shall save from prosecution any person making such payment.
All sections of this article shall be deemed to be separate and independent, and the invalidity of any section or provision hereof shall not affect the remaining sections or provisions.
Ordinance No. 547, adopted May 20, 1945, all amendments and supplements thereto and all ordinances or parts of ordinances inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed.