[Adopted 10-25-1978 as Ord. No.
1978:341 (Ch. 63 of the 1967 Code)]
This Part 3 is deemed necessary for the general
welfare of residents living in areas adjacent to certain publicly
owned lands in the Borough of Closter, whether such lands are owned
by the municipality, the Board of Education or any other political
subdivision.
As used in this Part 3, the following words
shall have the meanings indicated:
All vehicles propelled by any means other than muscular power.
A person to whom the legal title of a motor vehicle is registered
in this or any other state.
The standing or waiting of a motor vehicle, whether or not
attended.
Any parking area or publicly held land which is open to the
public and which is maintained by a political subdivision of the state
for certain public purposes.
It shall be unlawful to park a motor vehicle
on any publicly owned or leased land after the hour of 10:30 p.m.,
prevailing time, and before the hour of 6:00 a.m., prevailing time;
provided, however, that the Mayor and Council may designate, by resolution,
which publicly held lands shall be governed by the terms of this Part
3.
Any motor vehicle found to be illegally parked
on publicly held land during the proscribed times may be removed from
the parking area by towing or other method at the expense of the registered
owner, who shall be responsible for payment of the cost of removal
and storage of such vehicle.
Appropriate signs stating the proscribed hours
of parking and that illegally parked vehicles may be removed at the
owner's expense shall be displayed in the parking areas of such publicly
owned lands that the Mayor and Council shall decide.
The Police Department is authorized to place
barricades at the entrances of all parking areas covered by this Part
3 during the hours that parking shall be forbidden thereupon.
Whenever an event sanctioned by properly constituted
authority shall be scheduled and held on publicly owned lands, the
proscribed time provisions of this Part 3 may be suspended by such
authority for a period of two hours after the conclusion of such event.
In any trial on a complaint for a violation
of this Part 3, proof of the ownership of any motor vehicle involved
in the complaint may be established by offering into evidence a certificate
or other official communication from the Division of Motor Vehicles
of the State of New Jersey or other state, district, territory, country
or place where the vehicle was registered according to the license
plates thereon, setting forth the name and address of the owner of
said motor vehicle on the date of the alleged violation, whereupon
the same shall be received in evidence without further authentication
or proof, and a presumption shall arise that the owner of said motor
vehicle, as shown in such certificate or official communication, was
the owner of said vehicle on the date and at the time such vehicle
was illegally parked.
