This article shall be known and may be cited
as the "Parking Meter Ordinance of 1953."
The terms used herein shall have the following
meanings:
LEGAL PARKING TIME
The time which a vehicle may legally park in a parking meter
zone, as established by ordinance or resolution, and indicated on
the parking meter.
PARKING METER
A device intended to assist the Township authorities in enforcing
the provisions of this article and limiting the time during which
vehicles may be parked within a parking meter zone.
PARKING METER ZONES
Highways, or portions of highways, but shall not include
locations where fire plugs have been installed, nor such spaces as
have been designated as bus spaces, entrances to churches, hotels,
theaters or other places where parking has been prohibited.
PERSON
Includes every natural person, firm, partnership, association
or corporation.
VEHICLE
A conveyance of any character for the transportation of persons
or property.
The proper officers of the Township are hereby
authorized to enter into contracts from time to time for the purchase
and installation of parking meters, such contracts to be made in the
manner provided by existing law. Payment for meters as well as all
costs of installation and maintenance shall be made solely from revenue
obtained from the operation of the meters, without in any manner obligating
the Township to pay for the same from other sources.
Providing free parking spaces. Nothing herein
shall be construed as preventing the Township from providing for free
parking space for loading and unloading purposes, bus stops, taxicab
stands and other matters of a similar nature. Commercial vehicles
actively engaged in loading and unloading in a parking meter zone
shall be exempt from the provisions of this article.
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
highways, the cost of supervising and regulating the parking of vehicles
in the parking meter zones created hereby, and the cost of the purchase,
installation, supervision, protection, 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 Supervisors and deposited in the general Township account.