[Adopted 11-15-1974 (Ch.
79, Art. I, of the 1974 Code)]
All parking yards and parking places regularly maintained for the parking
of six (6) or more motor vehicles which are open to the public or to which
the public is invited shall be regulated by this chapter.
Each parking stall or parking place shall be clearly indicated by lines
painted upon the pavement of the parking area or designated by appropriate
barriers. No vehicles shall be parked in any portion of the parking yard not
indicated or designated as a parking stall.
Whenever it is deemed necessary for public safety, the Chief of Police
or other designated official of the Township of Lacey may require the owner
or owners of any shopping center, place of public assembly, private school
or multiple-dwelling unit to designate fire zones or fire lanes within the
area of the parking yard or in the driveways of the premises leading to and
from the parking yard. Fire zones and/or fire lanes shall be a minimum of
ten (10) feet and/or a maximum of fifty (50) feet in width. Said fire zones
or fire lanes shall be clearly posted as such by the owner or owners or operators
under the direction of the Chief of Police or other designated official of
Lacey Township. It shall be unlawful to park any vehicle other than an emergency
vehicle in areas designated as fire zones or fire lanes.
A.
Where loading zones are required, the Chief of Police
or other authorized official of the Township of Lacey may authorize the designation
of said loading zones as no-parking areas, which loading zones shall be clearly
designated as such by the owner or owners or operators therein. No person
or persons shall park any vehicle in any area or zone designated as a loading
area or zone except for the purpose of unloading or loading goods, wares,
merchandise, equipment or fixtures for or from the business establishment
or establishments for which the parking lot is maintained.
B.
In no case shall any vehicle stand in a loading area
or zone for any continuous period in excess of one (1) hour unless permission
is first obtained from the officer in charge of the Lacey Township Police
Department at the time.
A.
Except as herein elsewhere provided, or unless a shorter
time is designated by the owner or operator of the parking lot, no person
shall park any vehicle in any area of a parking lot for a period in excess
of eighteen (18) hours at any one time. In the event a vehicle becomes disabled
on a parking lot and cannot, without hardship to the owner or operator, be
removed within such eighteen-hour period, the owner or operator of such vehicle
shall promptly within such period notify the officer on duty at the Police
Department who shall cause a record of such notification to be made. The owner
or operator of such vehicle shall cause the vehicle to be repaired or removed
as soon as practicably may be done.
B.
The time limit herein specified shall not apply to those
parking lots maintained in connection with the parking of vehicles of tenants
or guests of tenants of any housing unit or apartment building, hotel, motel,
rooming house, marina or similar establishments or to those parking lots or
parking yards maintained solely for the parking of employees' vehicles, provided
that the employee parking area shall be clearly designated and restricted
to that purpose. When any vehicle is parked in violation of the time limit
herein specified, such vehicle may, at the discretion of a member of the Lacey
Township Police Department or a member of the State Police or any other law
enforcement officer acting within his or her jurisdiction, be towed away and
impounded. The cost of such towing and storage shall be at the expense of
the owner or operator of the vehicle.
No person shall park any vehicle in a manner that such vehicle or any
part thereof extends into an area designated for the parking of another vehicle
or which is designated as a driving area. This section shall not apply to
a vehicle which, because of the nature of the vehicle, requires an area greater
than that required for the parking of an average passenger vehicle. The Chief
of Police, or the owner or operator of a parking lot with the concurrence
of the Chief of Police, shall designate those areas of a parking lot that
are to be used for entering, leaving or driving from one area of a parking
lot to another area of the parking lot. Such areas shall be clearly indicated
by appropriate signs or markings placed on the pavement of the parking lot.
No person shall operate any motor vehicle on any parking lot in a careless
manner or at a speed in excess of ten (10) miles per hour. This limitation
shall not apply to emergency vehicles.
No person shall consume any alcoholic beverage in any vehicle parked
or being operated in any portion of a parking lot.
Unless another specific penalty is provided by state law, any person
violating this chapter shall, upon conviction, pay a fine not to exceed fifty
dollars ($50.) or be imprisoned for a period not to exceed fifteen (15) days,
or both, at the discretion of the Judge before whom such conviction shall
be had.
