[Added 2-16-1983 by Ord. No. 2021]
[Amended 10-17-2001 by Ord. No. 3624; 10-17-2007 by Ord. No.
3829]
This article shall be administered and enforced
by the Parking Services Department, which shall establish procedures
and issue such application forms and permits as may be necessary to
implement the provisions of this article and which shall keep suitable
records of permits issued and of fees paid.
A.
Upon application to the Parking Services Department,
payment of a permit fee and presentation of a current operator's license
and motor vehicle registration card(s), a motor vehicle owner may
request an off-highway parking permit for one or two vehicles currently
registered in the applicant's name and/or address.
[Amended 10-17-2001 by Ord. No. 3624; 10-17-2007 by Ord. No.
3829]
B.
Permits will be issued only for motor vehicles which
are of such size as will not occupy more room than that allotted a
normal ten-foot-wide parking space.
C.
The intent of this article is to establish permit
parking areas in Township-managed public parking lots and to assign
such parking lots to one of three municipal parking districts located
in Ardmore, Bala Cynwyd, and Bryn Mawr. Permitted parking in such
lots is intended to provide long-term, off-street parking privileges
to those living, commuting, and/or working in such districts, thus
making short-term on-street customer parking available adjacent to
commercial establishments. The Township reserves the right not to
issue a permit or to revoke any permit whose use is or would be inconsistent
with this intent.
[Added 10-17-2001 by Ord. No. 3624]
D.
Permits will be initially issued only to individual
applicants. Permits may be renewed by an applicant or his surrogate
for the next permit period 30 days or less prior to expiration. If
more applications are received than the number of permits available,
permits will be issued/renewed on an arbitrary basis.
[Added 10-17-2001 by Ord. No. 3624]
E.
The Township reserves the right not to issue or renew
permits for any vehicle with an outstanding unpaid traffic ticket
issued by Lower Merion Township.
[Added 10-17-2001 by Ord. No. 3624]
[Amended 10-17-2001 by Ord. No. 3624; 10-17-2007 by Ord. No.
3829]
Permits issued by the Parking Services Department
shall be used only as follows:
A.
A permit may be used only for long-term parking in
a parking lot located in the designated municipal parking district
for which the permit was issued.
B.
A permit shall be returned to the Parking Services
Department when the person to whom it was issued transfers title to
his motor vehicle.
C.
If a person to whom a permit was issued replaces his
motor vehicle, he must reregister the vehicle and obtain a new permit,
to be issued without charge.
D.
The permit must be prominently displayed on the motor
vehicle for which it was issued while that vehicle is parked in a
space designated for permit parking only.
[Amended 10-17-2001 by Ord. No. 3624; 10-17-2007 by Ord. No.
3829]
The application fee for a permit for space in any particular municipal parking district, which shall be payable to the Township of Lower Merion and collected by the Parking Services Department, shall be as such fee is established in Schedule XXV (§ 145-125).
[Amended 10-17-2001 by Ord. No. 3624]
The period of time and days of the week during which a permit for space in any particular municipal parking district shall be valid shall be as such are established in Schedule XXV (§ 145-125)
[Amended 10-17-2001 by Ord. No. 3624]
The municipal parking lots and the number of parking spaces therein affected by this article and to which the provisions of this article apply shall be as described in Schedule XXIII (§ 145-123).
[Amended 10-17-2001 by Ord. No. 3624; 10-17-2007 by Ord. No.
3829]
A.
It shall be unlawful for any person to park a motor
vehicle in any parking space to which the provisions of this article
apply during those times of those days to which the provisions of
this article apply, unless such person has first obtained a current
permit and displayed it by hanging it from the rear view mirror while
the vehicle is parked in such space.
B.
It shall be unlawful for any person to display a parking
permit which has not been issued by the Parking Services Department,
which has been altered or defaced, or which was issued for another
vehicle.
C.
It shall be unlawful for any person to remove a parking
permit from a vehicle or to have a parking permit in his or her possession
except with the permission of the person to whom the permit was issued.
[Amended 8-3-1988 by Ord. No. 3104; 2-15-2006 by Ord. No.
3772]
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate
any provision of this article shall be subject to a fine or penalty
of not more than $600. Such fines or penalties shall be collected
as like fines or penalties are now by law collected. In addition,
the Township may revoke, refuse to renew or refuse to issue an off-highway
parking permit in the name of, or with respect to a vehicle owned
by, any such person, firm or corporation.
