[Adopted 6-4-1951; amended in its entirety 2-15-2000 by L.L. No.
1-2000]
For the purpose of this article, the terms used
herein are defined as follows:
Any mechanical device or meter, not inconsistent with this
article, placed or erected for the regulation of parking by authority
of this article. The term "parking meter" shall include and have the
same meaning as "parking kiosk" for the purpose of this article.
[Amended 5-17-2022 by L.L. No. 6-2022]
The space alongside the curb in which a vehicle shall be
properly parked, which shall be within painted lines, if any, and
if there be no lines, within the space between two meters; and in
those instances where there shall be but one parking meter space,
the vehicle shall be parked within three feet of the meter controlling
such space.
Any street, parking lot or any other area of the Village
in which parking is controlled by parking meters and the maximum time
limit of said meters is two hours.
The following words and phrases when used in
this article shall, for the purpose of this article, have the meanings
respectively ascribed to them in this article except where another
definition is specifically provided.
The standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise
than temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in
the loading or unloading of merchandise or passengers.
The stopping of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise
than temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in
receiving or discharging passengers.
When prohibited, means any halting, even momentarily, of
a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except when necessary to avoid
conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the directions of
a police officer or traffic control sign or signal.
[Amended 5-17-2022 by L.L. No. 6-2022]
A.
Place of
installation. No parking meter or kiosk authorized herein shall be
so installed or a parking space so established that it will obstruct
the convenient ingress or egress to and from any property abutting
on any street or that it will cause or permit any violation of §
86, Subdivision 7, of the Vehicle and Traffic Law.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: See now § 1202 of the New York State Vehicle
and Traffic Law.
B.
Parking
meters. In said parking meter zone, parking meters shall be installed
within or near the curbline facing alongside of such spaces as designated
by the Board of Trustees and which spaces it deems advisable or necessary
for the proper regulation of parking vehicles, said installation to
be placed not more than two feet from the curb nor more than four
feet from the line of the parking space as indicated.
C.
Parking
kiosk. The Village Board may designate areas within the Village to
be serviced by parking kiosks instead of individual parking meters.
The parking area or street serviced by kiosks shall be identified
and the kiosk placed so as to be easily visible to the public.
[Amended 5-17-2022 by L.L. No. 6-2022]
A.
No
person shall park or stand a motor vehicle, as defined in § 125
of the New York State Vehicle and Traffic Law, in any area in the
Village of Monroe delineated and or marked as a fire lane/zone, as
established by the Code Enforcement Officer, except when necessary
to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the directions
of a police officer or traffic control sign or signal.
B.
Each
violation of this section shall be punishable by a fine of $100.
Except in a period of emergency determined by
an officer of the Monroe Police Department, the Monroe Fire Company
or Mayor of Monroe or except in compliance with the directions of
a police officer, when any vehicle shall be parked in a parking space
regulated by a parking meter between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 6:00
p.m. on any day except Sundays and public holidays, the owner, operator
or driver of such vehicle shall, upon entering said parking space,
immediately deposit one twenty-five-cent coin of the United States
of America in the parking meter regulating such space.
A.
No overnight parking. No person shall park a vehicle on any Village
street or parking zone regulated pursuant to this section between
the hours of 12:00 midnight and 6:00 a.m.
B.
Two-hour parking in metered spaces. Any vehicle parking or standing in any designated parking space regulated by parking meters shall be parked within the white lines marked on the street. Such vehicle may occupy said space for a period of time not to exceed two hours between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. on any day except Sundays and public holidays, subject, however, to the restrictions contained § 43-14. This two-hour limit shall apply to any vehicle parked in a space regulated by parking meters, which space may have an inoperative or missing meter. Parking or standing a vehicle in a designated space regulated by parking meters shall be lawful for 60 minutes, or multiple thereof, with a maximum of two hours, upon deposit of such coins, tokens or scrip as may be required by resolution of the Village Board. Upon the expiration of the legal parking time, it shall be the duty of the owner or driver of the vehicle forthwith to remove the vehicle from the parking space, and it shall be unlawful for any person to cause, allow, permit or suffer any such vehicle registered in his name to be parked or standing overtime or to remain therein beyond the parking time limit prescribed by this article.
C.
Presumption of unlawful parking. The fact that any parking meter
shall exhibit the illegal signal shall be presumptive evidence as
to a parked vehicle then found in the parking space regulated by such
parking meter that the owner or driver failed to deposit or to cause
to be deposited the required coin or coins in said meter, and the
mechanical indication by such meter of a "violation" shall be presumptive
evidence of unlawful parking.
D.
Parking time limit not to be extended. It shall be unlawful and an
offense for any person to deposit or cause to be deposited in a parking
meter any coins for the purpose of extending the parking time beyond
the total lawful parking period.
E.
Parking during expired time prohibited. It shall be unlawful and
an offense for any person to permit a vehicle registered in his name
to remain or be placed in any parking space alongside of or next to
which any parking meter is placed while said parking meter is displaying
a signal that the time for which the privilege to park in such space
has been granted has expired.
F.
Parking parallel with curb. Vehicles shall at all times be parked
parallel with the curb and wholly within the parking meter spaces
as herein defined. The front fender or front wheel of said vehicle
shall be as near as possible to the parking meter controlling the
particular space.
G.
Penalties for parking and nonmoving offenses. Any person, firm or
corporation who shall violate or permit, suffer or allow anyone under
his, her, their or its direction or control to violate or shall aid,
abet or assist in the violation of any provisions of this section
shall be subject to a fine of $25 for each and every nonmoving and
parking offense.
H.
Procedures; additional penalties for failure to answer.
(1)
Service of a parking violation notice and summons, appearance; failure
to appear.
(a)
A summons charging a parking violation may be served upon the
violator in person or may be affixed to the motor vehicle involved
in the violation. The notice of the parking violations shall adhere
to the information requirements set forth in New York State Vehicle
and Traffic Law § 238, including, without limitation, the
requirement to answer the summons within 10 days from the date of
its issuance and the consequences of failure to answer within the
time specified.
(b)
All parking tickets hereinafter printed and used by the Village
of Monroe shall contain the following paragraph:
"You must enter a plea of guilty or not guilty within 10 days
from the date of violation to the Justice Court of the Village of
Monroe or the scheduled fine may be twice the amount specified. Additional
delays will result in further penalties being assessed. The New York
State Department of Motor Vehicles will be notified of your failure
to enter a plea or pay the scheduled fine, plus additional penalties.
This will result in denial of vehicle registration renewal."
(c)
Upon the failure of a person or the owner of a vehicle to answer
the summons within 10 days from the date of its issuance or any subsequent
adjourned date, late penalties shall be imposed as follows:
[1]
If the summons has not been answered and the required penalty
has not been paid within 30 days from the date the summons was issued,
a late penalty equal to the original fine shall be added to the total
fine;
[2]
If the summons shall remain unanswered and the required penalty
remain unpaid within 60 days from the date the summons was issued,
an additional late penalty equal to the original fine shall be added
to the total fine; and
[3]
If the summons shall remain unanswered and the required penalty
remain unpaid within 90 days from the date the summons was issued,
an additional late penalty equal to the original fine shall be added
to the total fine.
I.
The Village Board of the Village of Monroe is hereby authorized to
amend, change or modify the Village's parking regulations and parking
space assignments, as necessary. These amendments/changes/modifications
shall be made effective immediately, through the adoption of a resolution
by the Village Board of Trustees, which shall delineate said parking
amendments/changes/modifications.
[1]
Editor's Note: This local law also repealed the following sections, which immediately followed this section: § 43-21, Presumption of unlawful parking; § 43-22, Parking time limit not to be extended; § 43-23, Parking during expired time prohibited; § 43-24, Parking parallel with curb; and § 43-25, Place of installation.
If any section, provision or part thereof in
this article shall be adjudged invalid or unconstitutional, such adjudication
shall not affect the validity of the article as a whole or any section,
provisions or part thereof not adjudged invalid or unconstitutional.
[Amended 5-17-2022 by L.L. No. 6-2022]
A.
Every person convicted of a traffic infraction for
a violation of any of the provisions of this article for moving violations,
including the disobeying of traffic signs, traffic signals, stop signs
and yield signs, shall, for a first conviction thereof, be punished
by a fine of not less than $50 or imprisonment for not more than five
days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. For a second such conviction
within 18 months thereafter, such person shall be punished by a fine
of not less than $100 or imprisonment for not more than 10 days, or
by both such fine and imprisonment. For a third or subsequent conviction
within 18 months after the first conviction, such person may be punished
by a fine of not less than $250 or imprisonment for not more than
15 days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
[1]
Editor's Note: Former § 43-32, Additional penalties
for delay in entering plea, and former § 43-33, Determination
of penalties by Justice, were repealed 5-17-2022 by L.L. No. 6-2022.
