Parking meter zones are established upon and along certain streets in the Borough as set forth in §
305-106 (Schedule XXIII).
Parking meters shall be operated by the deposit of a coin in the meter as prescribed by §
305-39, and the parking rates for specified lengths of time, as well as the maximum parking times prescribed in §
305-35, shall apply at all times between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. Monday through Saturday, in the parking meter zones listed in §
305-35; provided, however, that the requirements of this Article as to parking time limit and as to deposit of coins in meters shall not apply on Borough holidays.
[Amended 4-13-2020 by Ord. No. 1554]
Parking meters installed in the parking meter zones established by §
305-35 of this article shall be placed upon the curb or sidewalk and immediately adjacent to the individual parking spaces described in §
305-38 of this article. Each parking meter shall be placed or set so as to show that the parking space adjacent to that meter is or is not legally occupied. Each parking meter installed shall indicate by a proper legend the legal parking time established by the Borough, and when the adjacent space is occupied by a vehicle, the parking meter shall indicate on and by its dial and pointer and/or digital display the duration of the period of legal parking and, on the expiration of that period, shall indicate illegal parking or over-parking.
Lines and/or markings shall be painted or placed
upon the curb, sidewalk or roadway adjacent to each parking meter
for the purpose of delineating the parking space for which that meter
shall be used. Every vehicle parked at 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 to park a vehicle across any such line or marking or
to park a vehicle in such a position that that vehicle is not wholly
within the area designated by those lines or markings.
[Amended 4-13-2020 by Ord. No. 1554]
Whenever a vehicle is to be parked in any space adjacent to a parking meter at any time in the period of limited parking as prescribed by §
305-36 of this article, the driver of the vehicle, upon entering the parking space, shall immediately deposit or cause to be deposited in that parking meter one or more proper coins of the United States of America as specified in the legend on the parking meter, the rates for which shall be established by resolution of Borough Council. 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 shall remain in any such parking space for such length of time that the meter shall indicate by proper signal that the lawful parking time has expired, that vehicle shall be considered as having been parked overtime, and the parking of a vehicle overtime shall be a violation of this article.
It shall be unlawful for any person to deposit
in any parking meter installed under the provisions of this Article
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 deposit or cause to be deposited, in any
parking meter installed under the provisions of this Article, any
coin for the purpose of increasing or extending the parking time of
any vehicle beyond the legal parking time of 15 minutes in any fifteen-minute
parking meter, one-half ( 1/2) hour in any half-hour parking
meter zone, one hour in any one-hour parking meter zone or two hours
in any two-hour parking meter zone.
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 Article, 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 that nothing in this section
shall apply to the servicing or opening of parking meters by officers,
employees or police officers of the Borough of Ephrata under the direction
of the Chief of Police or the Borough Council.