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Village of Scarsdale, NY
Westchester County
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Parking meter zones established by the Village Manager shall include streets or highways or parts thereof and all off-street public parking areas maintained by the Village.
A. 
In such parking meter zones, individual parking meters or multi-space parking meters shall be installed facing, alongside or within the immediate vicinity of such spaces as may be designated therefor as parking spaces for vehicles.
B. 
Individual parking meters or multi-space meters may be programmed to accept, upon a deposit therein, five-cent, ten-cent, twenty-five-cent or one-dollar coins and one-dollar, five-dollar or ten-dollar bills of the United States of America, and may also be programmed to accept credit cards, debit cards or other such payment method as may be designated by the Village Manager as indicated on the meters for the respective periods of time prescribed as parking time limits in § 290-33 of this chapter.
C. 
Each such individual parking meter shall, upon the expiration of such parking time, indicate that the lawful parking time has expired. Multi-space meters shall provide users with receipts denoting when parking time will expire.
A. 
Except as otherwise provided in this article, when any vehicle shall be parked in a space regulated by a parking meter, the operator thereof shall, upon entering such vehicle within the lines marked on the street, curb or parking area and on any day except Sundays and legal holidays, immediately deposit in the parking meter regulating such space such coins or bills of the United States or other means of payment as required by the direction thereon. This requirement may be waived by the Village Manager. The Village Manager shall promulgate hours of meter operation pursuant to § 290-4 of this chapter.
B. 
Any vehicle displaying a legally issued, currently valid New York State handicapped parking permit is hereby exempted from the requirements of § 290-36 of the Village Code. The intent of this exemption is to aid the handicapped in conducting personal business only for short periods of time. Parking for extended periods of time or for other than personal business shall be considered abuse of the privilege for which the Village of Scarsdale reserves the right to discontinue waiving this exemption.
C. 
In accordance with the provisions of § 1203-h of the New York State Vehicle and Traffic Law, any vehicle displaying a legally issued, currently valid New York State metered parking waiver permit is hereby exempted from the requirements of depositing monies in any meter at any time, but is subject to the provisions of § 290-32B above.
D. 
In accordance with Village Local Law No. 5-1976, any vehicle displaying identification signed by the Village Manager stating "Village of Scarsdale Official Business" shall be exempted from the requirement of depositing monies in any meter.
A. 
The lawful time to park at any parking space designated in Schedule XXIII (§ 290-74), Class I Parking Zone, shall be based upon the deposit in the meter of monies up to a maximum of 20 minutes.
B. 
The lawful time for parking in any parking space designated in Schedule XXIV (§ 290-75), Class II Parking Zone, shall be based upon the deposit in the meter of monies up to a maximum of 30 minutes.
C. 
The lawful time for parking in any parking space designated in Schedule XXV (§ 290-76), Class III Parking Zone, shall be based upon the deposit in the meter of monies up to a maximum of 65 minutes.
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The lawful time to park at any parking space designated in Schedule XXVI (§ 290-77), Class IV Parking Zone, shall be based upon the deposit in the meter of monies up to a maximum of 90 minutes.
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The lawful time for parking in any parking space designated in Schedule XXVII (§ 290-78), Class V Parking Zone, shall be based upon the deposit in the meter of monies up to a maximum of 120 minutes.
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The lawful time for parking in any parking space designated in Schedule XXVIII (§ 290-79), Class VI Parking Zone, shall be based upon the deposit in the meter of monies up to a maximum of 180 minutes.
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The lawful time for parking in any parking space designated in Schedule XXIX (§ 290-80), Class VII Parking Zone, shall be based upon the deposit in the meter of monies up to a maximum of 240 minutes.
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The lawful time for parking in any parking space designated in Schedule XXX (§ 290-81), Class VIII Parking Zone, shall be based upon the deposit in the meter of monies for each of the first four hours and for each one-hour period thereafter, up to a maximum of 8 hours.
I. 
The lawful time for parking in any parking space designated in Schedule XXXI (§ 290-82), Class IX Parking Zone, shall be based upon the deposit in the meter of monies for each of the first four hours and for each one-hour period thereafter, up to a maximum of 12 hours.
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The lawful time for parking in any parking space designated in Schedule XXXII (§ 290-83), Class X Parking Zone, shall be based upon the deposit in the meter of monies for each of the first four hours and for each one-hour period thereafter, up to a maximum of 24 hours.
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In accordance with § 290-32A, the hours of operations specified in Schedule XXXIII (§ 290-84) herein are hereby designated as hours of operations for parking meters in the Village of Scarsdale.
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Use of any off-street parking space designated in Schedule XXXIV (§ 290-85) shall require a special permit issued by the Village Clerk at rates set by resolution of the Board of Trustees.[1]
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Editor's Note: The current resolution is on file in the office of the Village Clerk.
B. 
The Village Manager is authorized to designate such special permit zones and promulgate rules, regulations and standards applicable to the application for and issuance of parking permits.
Certain Village of Scarsdale parking facilities are designed for special off-street parking. In such facilities, no parking other than that directly related to the purpose of the facility shall be permitted, unless otherwise authorized by the Village Manager or designee. Such off-street parking sites are listed in Schedule XXXV (§ 290-86).
Except as otherwise provided in this article, upon expiration of the maximum lawful parking time for any vehicle in any such designated parking space as set forth in § 290-33, the operator of such vehicle shall remove such vehicle from such parking space, and such vehicle shall not be immediately re-parked in any other metered space located within a radius of 300 feet from the space from which it was removed.
Any time in which the deposit of monies is required to park at a parking space, when the timing device on such meter indicates expired time, such shall be presumptive evidence of expiration of meter.
It shall be unlawful for any person to deface, injure, tamper, break, destroy or impair the usefulness of any parking meter or deposit, or cause to be deposited, any slug, device or substitute for accepted methods of payment as identified in § 290-31B of this chapter.
The Chief of Police is authorized, by written order from time to time, to restrict parking in portions of parking meter zones.
No person shall use any off-street public parking area maintained by the Village for the regular storage of a vehicle or for overnight storage of a vehicle, except in an emergency as determined by the Police Department or as otherwise provided by this article.
Any person who violates any provision of this article shall be liable to a fine which shall not exceed $150 or imprisonment for a period not to exceed 15 days, or both such fine and imprisonment. Each hour or part thereof during which a person shall be in violation of any provision of this article shall constitute a separate offense.