[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.