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:
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.
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.
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.
Includes every natural person, firm, partnership, association
or corporation.
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.
A.
Zones. It shall be unlawful for any persons to park a vehicle between the hours and on the days specified in Schedule XVIII (§ 195-67), attached to and made a part of this chapter, for more than the legal parking time upon the streets or parts of streets described in said schedule, which are hereby established as parking meter zones.
B.
Additional zones. Additional parking meter zones may
be established from time to time by ordinance or resolution of the
Board of Supervisors and existing zones or additional zones hereafter
established may be changed by ordinance or resolution.
A.
Description of parking space. In all parking meter
zones, one parking meter shall be installed for each parking space.
All spaces shall be plainly designated by lines or markings on the
paving and may be either parallel or diagonal to the curb. Parking
meters shall be placed upon the sidewalk or curb, if any, immediately
adjacent to each designated parking space, and in such manner as to
show by a signal that the parking space controlled by the meter is
or is not legally occupied. Each meter shall indicate the legal parking
time and when in operation shall also indicate, by its dial, the duration
of the period of legal parking.
B.
Parking within lines. Every vehicle parked in any
parking meter zone shall be entirely within the lines of the designated
parking space with the front end adjacent to the meter controlling
such space.
C.
Operation of meters. When any vehicle shall be parked
in any space adjacent to which a parking meter is located, the operator
shall upon entering the space immediately deposit in such meter one
or more twenty-five-cent coins but not exceeding 10 twenty-five-cent
coins, or combination of coins of the United States, as indicated
on the meter, and shall operate the meter in accordance with the instructions
thereon, and failure to do so shall constitute a violation of this
article.
D.
Legal parking time. The legal parking time for two-hour
parking meter zones is hereby established as 12 minutes, or multiples
thereof, as indicated on the parking meter, but such time shall not
exceed 120 minutes.
E.
Overtime violation. If any vehicle shall remain parked
in any parking space for such length of time that the meter shall
indicate by a proper signal that the legal parking time has expired,
such vehicle shall be considered as parking overtime, and the parking
of a vehicle overtime shall constitute a violation of this article.
F.
Extension of parking time. It shall be unlawful for
any person to deposit in a parking meter any coin for the purpose
of increasing or extending the parking time of any vehicle beyond
the legal parking time.
G.
Tampering with meters. It shall be unlawful for any
person to deface, injure, tamper with or willfully break, destroy
or impair the usefulness of any parking meter or to deposit in any
meter any slug, device or metallic substitute for a coin or coins
of the United States.
A.
Notice of violation. It shall be the duty of police
officers of the Township to report the number of each parking meter
which indicates that the vehicle occupying the space adjacent to such
meter has been parked in violation of any of the provisions of this
article, the state license number of such vehicle and any other facts,
a knowledge of which is necessary to a thorough understanding of the
circumstances attending such violation.
B.
Each such officer shall also place on such vehicle
a notice to the owner thereof that such vehicle has been parked in
violation of the provisions of this article and instructing such owner
to report at police head quarters in regard to such violation. Each
such owner may within 48 hours of the time when such notice was attached
to such vehicle pay at police headquarters as a penalty for and in
full satisfaction of such violation the sum of $1. The failure of
such owner to make such payment within said period of 48 hours shall
render such owner subject to the penalties hereinafter provided for
violation of the provisions of this article.
C.
Temporary suspension. The provisions of this article
may be temporarily suspended by the Superintendent of Police, and
he or she may prescribe temporarily such other rules and regulations
as traffic conditions may require.
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.
