The Village Board of the Village of Potsdam is hereby directed to provide for the purchase, acquisition, installation, operation, maintenance, supervision, regulation and use of the parking meters provided for in this Article and to maintain said meters in good, workable condition, and said meters shall be installed on the curb, sidewalks or portions of the street immediately adjacent to or in front of the parking space designated, as provided for in § 168-43 hereof.
Each parking meter shall be set so as to display
a signal showing legal parking upon the deposit of the appropriate
coin or coins, lawful money of the United States of America, for the
period of time prescribed by this Article. Each meter shall be so
arranged that, upon the expiration of the lawful time limit, it shall
indicate, by a proper visible signal, that the lawful parking period
has expired, and in such case, the right of such vehicle to occupy
such space shall terminate, and the operator, owner or person in charge
thereof shall be subject to the penalties hereinafter provided.
A.
Except in a period of emergency determined by an officer
of the Fire or Police Department or in compliance with the directions
of a police officer or a traffic control device or signal, when any
vehicle shall be parked in any parking space alongside or next to
which a parking meter is located, the operator of such vehicle shall,
upon entering said parking meter space, immediately deposit or cause
to be deposited in said parking meter such proper coin of the United
States of America as is required for such parking meter and as is
designated by proper direction of the meter, and, when required by
the directions on the meter, the operator of such vehicle, after the
deposit of the proper coin or coins, shall also set in operation the
timing mechanism on such meter in accordance with directions properly
appearing thereon, and failure to deposit such proper coin and to
set the time mechanism in operation when so required shall constitute
a violation of this Article. Upon the deposit of such coin and the
setting of the time mechanism in operation when so required, the parking
space may be lawfully occupied by such vehicle during the period of
time which has been prescribed as indicated on said meter in which
the parking space is located.
B.
Any person placing a vehicle in a parking meter space
adjacent to a meter which indicates that unused time has been left
in the meter by the previous occupant of said space shall not be required
to deposit a coin so long as his occupancy of said space does not
exceed the indicated unused parking time. If said vehicle shall remain
parked in any such parking space and if the meter shall indicate such
illegal parking, then and in that event such vehicle shall be considered
as parking overtime and beyond the period of legal parking time, and
such parking shall be deemed a violation of this article.
The areas, streets and/or portions of streets within the Village of Potsdam, as designated in Schedule XXX (§ 168-88), shall be designated as parking meter zones, and within these parking meter zones the Board of Trustees is hereby directed and authorized to mark off individual parking spaces, and in such other zones as may hereafter be established, and said parking spaces shall be designated by lines painted or durably marked upon the surface of the street.
A.
Parking a vehicle in a designated space in the parking
meter zone shall be lawful for the following periods of time upon
deposit of the amount indicated or for such other period of time upon
the deposit of a coin or coins as may be indicated on the meter:
B.
However, the parking of vehicles is hereby prohibited for a period of longer than the time limit indicated in Schedule XXV (§ 168-83) and Schedule XXXI (§ 168-89) from 8:00 am. to 6:00 p.m., except Sundays and holidays and on Fridays from 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. in those portions of the parking meter zones specified in said Schedule XXV (§ 168-83) and Schedule XXXI (§ 168-89), attached to and made part of this chapter.
[Amended 2-3-2003 by L.L. No. 1-2003]
It shall be unlawful and a violation of the
provisions of this article for any person to:
A.
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.
Permit any vehicle to remain on or 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.
Deface, injure, tamper with, open or willfully break,
destroy or impair the usefulness of any parking meter installed under
the provisions of this article.
It shall be the duty of the Chief of Police,
acting in accordance with instructions issued by the Board of Trustees,
or, in the event that the Board of Trustees from time to time appoints
a person or persons to perform the duties hereinafter described, the
duty of such person or persons so appointed by and acting in accordance
with the instructions issued by the Board of Trustees, to make regular
collections of the money deposited in all parking meters. It shall
be the duty of such person or persons so designated to remove from
said meters the coins deposited in said meters and to deliver such
coins and deposit the same to the credit of the Village of Potsdam
in such bank as shall be designated by the Board of Trustees from
time to time and immediately thereafter to deliver to the Village
Treasurer an appropriate receipt issued by such bank for the money
so deposited.
The specified coin or 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 public streets and also the cost of supervising and regulating
the parking of vehicles in the parking meter zones created hereby
and to cover the cost of purchasing, acquiring, installing, operating,
maintaining, supervising, regulating and controlling the parking meters
described herein. The meaning of the term "the proper regulation and
control of traffic upon the public streets," as used in this section,
shall be construed and is intended to include the right to acquire,
by lease or purchase, parking lots and the improvement thereof. Any
surplus revenue which may be accumulated from such fees and which
is not required for the aforesaid purposes may be used and appropriated
for any other lawful purpose.
Nothing in this article shall be construed as
prohibiting the Village of Potsdam from providing for bus stops, for
taxicab stands and similar matters, including the loading or unloading
of trucks, vans or other commercial vehicles, except that it shall
be lawful for commercial trucks or delivery cars to park in the parking
meter zones to load or unload merchandise without depositing a coin
or coins for a period not exceeding 30 minutes. Should any such commercial
truck or delivery car park in excess of 30 minutes, such parking shall
be deemed a violation of this article, and the owner or operator of
such commercial truck or delivery car shall be liable and subject
to the penalty or penalties imposed hereunder.
