As used in this article, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
The time which a vehicle may legally park in a parking meter
zone, as established pursuant to this article and indicated on the
parking meter.[1]
The municipal parking lots in a designated geographical area
for which a municipal parking permit is valid.
[Added 10-17-2001 by Ord. No. 3624]
A device intended to assist the Township authorities in enforcing
the regulation of parking pursuant to this article. Each parking meter
installed shall indicate by proper legend the legal parking time established
by this article and, when operated, shall at all times indicate the
balance of legal parking time, and at the expiration of such period
shall indicate illegal or overtime parking.
The monetary charge a user of a parking meter zone shall
pay for the privilege of parking a vehicle in such parking meter zone
in the manner set forth in this article and by other law, such charge
being paid by inserting an appropriate coin or smart card in a parking
meter.
[Added 10-17-2001 by Ord. No. 3624;
amended 9-21-2011 by Ord. No. 3951]
Any space within a parking meter zone adjacent to a parking
meter and which is duly designated for the parking of a single vehicle
by lines painted or otherwise durably marked upon the curb or the
surface of the highway or parking lot adjacent to or adjoining a parking
meter.
Any street or highway, or portion thereof, and/or any parking
lot or other designated location set aside under provisions of this
article for the installation of parking meters and upon which parking
meters have been installed and are in operation. Such zones shall
not include locations where fire hydrants have been installed, nor
such spaces as have been designated as bus stops, taxicab stands or
entrances to post offices, churches, theaters or banks, nor other
places where parking has been prohibited.
[Added 10-17-2001 by Ord. No. 3624]
A debit card sold and replenished by the Parking Services
Department of the Township of Lower Merion for exclusive use in Township
parking meters.
[Added 9-21-2011 by Ord. No. 3951]
[1]
Editor’s Note: The definition of "complimentary tokens,"
which immediately preceded this definition, was repealed 9-21-2011
by Ord. No. 3951.
The proper officers of the Township are hereby
authorized to enter into contracts from time to time for the purchase,
installation and maintenance of parking meters, such contracts to
be made in the manner provided by existing law.
A.
On-highway parking meter zones. Parking meter zones are hereby established upon the streets and highways, or portions thereof, described in Schedule XXII (§ 145-122). The legal parking times and parking meter rates for such zones shall be as indicated in said schedule.
B.
Off-highway parking meter zones. Parking meter zones are hereby established in the municipal parking lots or other properties owned or leased by the Township described in Schedule XXIII (§ 145-123). The legal parking times and parking meter rates for such zones shall be as indicated in said schedule.
It shall be unlawful for any person to park
a vehicle in a parking meter zone for more than the legal parking
time between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. of any day except
Sunday, New Year's Day, Memorial Day, the Fourth of July, Labor Day,
Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.
[Amended 10-17-2001 by Ord. No. 3624]
In all parking meter zones, one parking meter
shall be installed for each parking space. All spaces shall be plainly
designated by lines or markings on the paving and may be either parallel,
perpendicular or diagonal to the curb. Parking meters shall be placed
upon the sidewalk or curb, if any, immediately adjacent to each designated
parking space and in such manner as to show by a signal that the parking
space controlled by the meter is or is not legally occupied. Each
meter shall indicate the legal parking time and when in operation
shall also indicate the duration of the period of legal parking.
[Amended 10-17-2001 by Ord. No. 3624; 9-21-2011 by Ord. No.
3951]
When any vehicle shall be parked in any space
adjacent to which a parking meter is located, the operator shall,
upon entering the space, immediately deposit in such meter one or
more five-cent coins (nickels), one or more ten-cent coins (dimes),
one or more twenty-five-cent coins (quarters) one or more dollar coins
of the United States as indicated on the meter, or insert a smart
card and activate the deduction therefrom of a parking fee, and shall
operate the meter in accordance with the instructions thereon, and
failure to do so shall constitute a violation of this article.
[Amended 10-17-2001 by Ord. No. 3624; 10-17-2007 by Ord. No.
3829]
The allocation of spaces for metered and permit
parking in municipal parking lots where both are permitted shall be
established by the Director of Parking Services, subject to the approval
of the Board of Commissioners. Metered spaces shall be indicated by
the placement of meters adjacent to such space.
It shall be unlawful and a violation of the
provisions of this article for any person:
A.
To cause, allow, permit or suffer any vehicle registered
in the name of or operated by such person to be parked overtime or
beyond the period of legal parking time established for any parking
meter zone as herein described, or to deposit in any parking meter
any coin for the purpose of parking beyond the maximum legal parking
time for the particular parking meter zone.
B.
To permit any vehicle to remain or be placed in any
parking space adjacent to any parking meter while said meter is displaying
a signal indicating that the vehicle occupying such parking space
has already been parked beyond the period prescribed for such parking
space.
C.
To park any vehicle across any line or marking of
a parking meter space or in such position that the vehicle shall not
be entirely within the area designated by such lines or markings,
or in any parking meter space in any position other than with the
front end of the vehicle adjacent to the meter controlling such space.
[Amended 9-17-1980 by Ord. No. 1920]
D.
To deface, injure, tamper with, open or willfully
break, destroy or impair the usefulness of any parking meter installed
under the provisions of this article.
E.
To deposit or cause to be deposited in any parking
meter any slug, device or metal substance or other substitute for
a lawful coin.
[Amended 10-17-2001 by Ord. No. 3624]
F.
To park or permit the parking of any vehicle in any
parking meter space where the meter does not register lawful parking.
A.
It shall be the duty of police officers and meter
attendants of the Township of Lower Merion to report:
(1)
The number of each parking meter which indicates that
the vehicle occupying the space adjacent to such meter has been parked
in violation of any provision of this article.
(2)
The state license number of such vehicle.
(3)
Any other facts, a knowledge of which is necessary
to a thorough understanding of the circumstances attending such violation.
B.
Each such officer or meter attendant shall also place
on such vehicle a notice to the owner thereof that such vehicle has
been parked in violation of the provisions of this article and instructing
such owner to report to Police Headquarters in regard to such violation,
in accordance with § 145-9C(2) of this chapter.
[Amended 10-17-2001 by Ord. No. 3624]
The provisions of this article may be temporarily
suspended by the Township Manager, and he may prescribe temporarily
such other rules and regulations as traffic conditions may require.
[Amended 10-17-2001 by Ord. No. 3624]
Nothing herein shall be construed as preventing
the Township of Lower Merion from providing for free parking space
for loading and unloading purposes, bus stops, taxicab stands, entrances
to post offices, churches, theaters, banks and other places of a similar
nature. No vehicle other than a taxicab shall stand or park in an
officially designated taxicab stand, except that an operator of any
vehicle may temporarily stop in such taxicab stand for the purpose
of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading of passengers.
Commercial vehicles actively engaged in loading and unloading in a
parking meter zone shall be exempt from the provisions of this article.
[Amended 10-17-2001 by Ord. No. 3624]
The coins required to be deposited in parking
meters as provided herein are hereby levied and assessed as fees to
provide for the proper regulation and control of traffic upon the
streets and highways, including the cost of supervising and regulating
the parking of vehicles in the parking meter zones created hereby
and the cost of the acquisition of parking lots and spaces and the
purchase, installation, inspection, operation, maintenance, control
and use of the parking meters. The coins deposited in parking meters
shall be collected and accounted for under the direction of the Township
Manager, and such coins shall be deposited by him in the general Township
account at least once a week.
