[Amended 6-18-2015 by Ord. No. 15-07; 4-26-2018 by Ord. No. 18-03]
Parking meter zones are established upon and along certain streets in the Borough as follows:
Street
Side
Between
Eighth Street
Both
Main Street to Clay Street
Main Street
Both
Sixth Street to VFW
Ninth Street
East
Main Street to Clay Street
North Canal Street
Both
Tenth Street to Clay Street
North Main Street
South
500 Block
South Main Street
Both
Fifth Street to Sixth Street
Tenth Street
East
Main Street to Clay Street
[Amended 6-18-2015 by Ord. No. 15-07; 4-26-2018 by Ord. No. 18-03; 4-27-2023 by Ord. No. 23-01]
Parking meters shall be operated by payment of the fee by either coin or other payment method made available by the Borough, at the Borough's discretion as prescribed in § 15-505, and the parking rates for specified lengths of time, as well as the maximum parking times prescribed, shall apply at all times between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. Monday through Saturday, in the parking meter zones listed in § 15-501; provided, however, that the requirements of this part as to parking time limits and as to deposit of coins in meters shall not apply on legal holidays.
[Amended 6-18-2015 by Ord. No. 15-07]
Residents are permitted to park without feeding the meter or a meter permit in specified parking meter zones.
[Amended 6-18-2015 by Ord. No. 15-07; 4-27-2023 by Ord. No. 23-01]
Non-Central Business District parking meter zones shall be enforced from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
[Amended 6-18-2015 by Ord. No. 15-07; 4-27-2023 by Ord. No. 23-01]
Parking meter permits can be purchased at a monthly cost determined by resolution of Borough Council and are listed in the Borough of Sharpsburg Fee Schedule. Parking meter permits must be purchased for a minimum six-month period. Permits will be prorated from January to June and July to December. Parking meter hourly rates are determined by resolution of Borough Council and listed in the Borough of Sharpsburg Fee Schedule.
[Amended 4-27-2023 by Ord. No. 23-01]
It shall be unlawful for any person to deposit in any parking meter installed under the provisions of this part any slug or other substitute for a coin of the United States of America. It shall be unlawful for any person to defraud a parking payment mechanism made available by the Borough.
[Amended 4-27-2023 by Ord. No. 23-01]
1. 
It shall be unlawful and a violation of this part for any person to deposit or cause to be deposited in any parking meter installed under the provisions of this part any coin for the purpose of increasing or extending the parking time of any vehicle beyond the legal parking time established for that parking zone.
2. 
It shall be unlawful and a violation of this part of any person to purchase additional parking time or cause additional parking time to be purchased at a parking meter installed under the provisions of this part for the purpose of extending the parking time of any vehicle beyond the legal parking time established for that parking zone.
[Amended 4-27-2023 by Ord. No. 23-01]
It shall be unlawful and a violation of this part for any person to permit a vehicle to remain in a parking space adjacent to a parking meter installed under this part when that meter displays a signal indicating that the vehicle has already been parked there beyond the period of time prescribed for that parking space or the time for which a coin or coins was deposited in that meter for the parking of that vehicle. In instances where parking was purchased using a payment mechanism made available by the Borough, it shall be unlawful and a violation of this part for any person to permit a vehicle to remain in a parking space adjacent to a parking meter installed under this part when that meter is not paid through the Borough's designated payment mechanism or the vehicle has been parked beyond the period of time prescribed for that parking space.
It shall be unlawful and a violation of this part for any person to deface, tamper with, open or willfully break, destroy or impair the usefulness of any parking meter installed under the provisions of this part, provided nothing in this section shall apply to the servicing or opening of parking meters by officers, employees or police officers of the Borough of Sharpsburg under the direction of the Chief of Police or Borough of Sharpsburg.
[Amended 4-27-2023 by Ord. No. 23-01]
1. 
It shall be the duty of the police officers and parking enforcement personnel of the Borough of Sharpsburg, acting in accordance with the directions of the Chief of Police, to report:
A. 
The number of each parking meter that indicates that a vehicle occupying the adjacent parking space is, or has been, parked in violation of any provision of this part.
B. 
The date and hour of the violation.
C. 
The license number of the vehicle.
D. 
Any other facts, the knowledge of which is necessary for a thorough understanding of the circumstances attending the violation.
2. 
The police officer or other person making the report shall also place on or attach to the vehicle a notice to the owner or driver of the vehicle that the vehicle was parked in violation of this part, and instructing the owner or driver that if he will report to the office of the Chief of Police and pay, for the use of the Borough of Sharpsburg, the sum of $10 within five business days after the time of the notice, or will place the sum of $10 enclosed within an envelope in any of the special parking fine boxes installed at various locations within the Borough of Sharpsburg within the time limit, that act will save the violator from prosecution and from payment of the fine prescribed in § 15-511, Subsection 1, of this part.
[Amended 4-27-2023 by Ord. No. 23-01]
1. 
Any person who violates any provision of this part, with the exception of § 15-509 of this part, and who fails to pay the fine set forth in § 15-510 of this part, shall be cited within 15 days of the violation and, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than $15 and costs.
2. 
Any person who violates any provision of § 15-509 of this part shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than $1,000 and costs and, in default of payment of fine and costs, to imprisonment for not more than 30 days.
[Amended 4-27-2023 by Ord. No. 23-01]
1. 
By resolution, the Borough of Sharpsburg may temporarily suspend the proisions of this part requiring payment of meters and establishing a maximum parking time at meters.
2. 
The Borough of Sharpsburg shall have authority to establish no-parking or special purpose parking zones within any parking meter zone and to remove parking meters from those areas as previously installed there, and the provisions of this part shall not apply in those areas where no-parking or special purpose parking is in effect.