A.
The following are established as the metered parking
lots established by this Township:
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Lot
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Location
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Rate
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Maximum Parking Time
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Days in Operation
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Hours in Operation
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(Reserved)
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B.
Provided, the parking meters in the metered lots shall
be in operation, the parking lots shall be open for parking and the
provisions of this chapter regulating the operation of parking meters
and establishing parking time limits shall be in force on the days
and between the hours prescribed on the individual lots. But, on Sundays
and legal holidays, no parking time limit shall apply and the placing
of coins in meters shall not be required.
Parking meters installed in the parking lots shall be placed immediately adjacent to the individual parking spaces that shall be marked off and maintained in the lots. For each parking meter there shall be a clear indication, through use of a directional arrow, or an identification as to number with the parking space, to show which individual parking space it serves. Each parking meter shall indicate by a proper legend the parking rate and the maximum parking time established by § 15-55 of this article, and, when the parking space is occupied and the parking meter put into operation by the insertion of one or more coins, the parking meter shall indicate on and by its dial and pointer the duration of legal parking, and, upon the expiration of that period, shall indicate illegal parking or overparking.
The Township, at its discretion, may provide,
at convenient and suitable locations in any one or more of the metered
parking lots, reserved parking spaces for handicapped, and shall designate
those spaces by appropriate signs. It shall be unlawful, and a violation
of this chapter, for any person to parking any such reserved parking
space any vehicle unless that vehicle bears or displays either a "handicapped
registration plate," a "handicapped parking placard," a "disabled
veteran registration plate" or a "disabled veteran placard."
Lines and/or markings shall be painted or placed
upon the surface of the metered parking lots, adjacent to each parking
meter, for the purpose of delineating the parking space for which
that meter shall be used. Every vehicle parked adjacent to any parking
meter shall be parked wholly within the lines or markings so placed
and applicable to that meter. It shall be unlawful and a violation
of this article for any person:
It shall be unlawful for any person to park
a vehicle in any metered parking lot:
Whenever a vehicle is to be parked in any metered
parking lot, at any time when the lot is open for use and the meters
are to be in operation, the driver of the vehicle, upon entering the
parking space, shall immediately deposit, or cause to be deposited,
in the proper parking meter, one or more proper coins of the United
States of America as specified in the legend on the parking meter.
Upon the deposit of the coin or coins, and placing the meter in operation,
the parking space may be lawfully occupied by the vehicle for the
time indicated on the meter. If any vehicle remains in any such parking
space for such length of time that the meter indicates that the lawful
parking time has expired, that vehicle shall be considered as being
parked overtime, and the parking of a vehicle overtime shall be a
violation of this chapter. Provided, every hour that a vehicle remains
parked at a meter showing a violation shall constitute a separate
violation of this article.
It shall be unlawful for any person to deposit
in any parking meter installed under the provisions of this chapter
any slug or other substitute for a coin of the United States of America.
It shall be unlawful and a violation of this
article for any person to permit a vehicle to remain in a parking
space adjacent to a parking meter installed under this chapter when
that meter displays a signal indicating that the vehicle has already
been parked there beyond the period of time prescribed for that parking
space, or the time for which a coin or coins were deposited in that
meter for the parking of that vehicle.
It shall be unlawful, and a violation of this
article, for any person to deface, tamper with, open or willfully
break, destroy or impair the usefulness of any parking meter installed
under the provisions of this article. Provided, nothing in this section
shall apply to the servicing or opening of parking meters by officers,
employees or police officers of the Township under the direction of
the (Designated Official) or Township.
The metered parking lots established by this
article shall be for the use of passenger cars, passenger vans and
pickup trucks only, and it shall be unlawful for any person to park
any other type of vehicle in any of those lots.
A.
It shall be the duty of the police officers and parking
enforcement personnel of the Township, acting in accordance with the
direction of the Chief of Police, to report:
(1)
The number of each parking meter that indicates that
a vehicle occupying the adjacent parking space is, or has been, parked
in violation of any provision of this chapter.
(2)
The date and hour of the violation.
(3)
The license number of the vehicle.
(4)
Any other facts, the knowledge of which is necessary
for a thorough understanding of the circumstances attending the violation.
B.
The police officer or other person making the report shall also place on or attach to the vehicle a notice to the owner or driver of the vehicle that the vehicle was parked in violation of this article, and instructing the owner or driver that if he will report to the office of the Chief of Police and pay, for the use of the Township, the sum of $ ____________ within ______ hours after the time of the notice, or will place the sum of $ ____________ enclosed within the envelope provided, in any of the special parking fine boxes installed at various locations within the Township, within that time limit, that act will save the violator from prosecution and from payment of the fine prescribed in § 15-66A of this article.
