[Adopted 2-22-1971 by L.L. No. 1-1971 as
Ch. 124, Art. X, of the 1971 Code]
For the control of parking and traffic and the
good and welfare of the Village, the installation, maintenance and
operation of street parking meters is authorized as more fully provided
herein. Such parking in a metered space requires payment of the fee
indicated on the meter for the privilege of parking.
For the purpose of this article:
Includes every individual who shall operate a vehicle as
the owner thereof, or as the agent, employee or permittee of the owner,
or who is in actual physical control of a vehicle.
Any mechanical device or meter, not inconsistent with this
article, placed or erected for the regulation of parking by authority
of this article. Each parking meter installed shall indicate by proper
legend the legal parking time established by the Village, and when
operated shall at all times indicate the balance of legal parking
time, and at the expiration of such period shall indicate illegal
or overtime parking.
Any space within a parking-meter zone adjacent to a parking
meter and which is duly designated for the parking of a single vehicle
by lines painted or otherwise durably marked upon the curb or the
surface of the street adjacent to or adjoining a parking meter.
Any and all streets and parking fields set aside under provisions of this article for the installation of parking meters, and upon which parking meters shall have been installed and are in operation; and, in addition, those areas further defined in § 309-29 of this article.
The stopping of a motor vehicle or motorcycle upon any public
highway and leaving such motor vehicle or motorcycle, whether occupied
or not, for a period longer than necessary to board or unload passengers
or freight.
Includes any individual, firm, copartnership, association
or corporation.
Any public street, highway, road, avenue, lane, path, court
or other public way in the Village established for the use of vehicles.
Any device in, upon or by which any person or property is
or may be transported upon a highway, except a device which is operated
upon rails or tracks, except baby carriages.
A.
Parking meter zones are hereby designated and established
as being those streets and parts of streets and public parking fields
upon which limited parking is not permitted under authority and by
virtue of all limited parking ordinances now effective, and the parking
limits and restrictions hereinbefore provided are hereby incorporated
in this article for all uses and purposes applicable to the conditions,
terms and enforcements hereof, and such other parking meter zones
as may be hereafter created by the Board of Trustees or authority
delegated to the Police Department by the Board of Trustees, but spaces
designated as bus stops and loading zones shall be excluded from the
above described parking meter zones.
B.
The entire portion of the state highway situate within
the east and west boundaries of the Incorporated Village of Rockville
Centre, known and designated as Sunrise Highway and also New York
State Route No. 27, on both the north and south sides thereof, is
hereby specifically designated and established as a parking meter
zone. The individual parking meter spaces established on Sunrise Highway,
also known as New York State Route No. 27, shall be marked so that
vehicles will be required to park parallel with the curb or edge of
the pavement on said highway and so that no vehicles will be required
to park in violation of Section 86.7 of the Vehicle and Traffic Law.
C.
All frontages in said areas, streets or portions of
streets defining said zones are to be included therein.
The Chief of Police, or his designee is hereby
directed and authorized to mark off individual parking spaces in the
parking zones and in such other zones as may thereafter be established.
Said parking spaces are to be designated by lines painted or durably
marked upon the curbing or surface of the street. At each space so
marked it shall be unlawful to park any vehicle in such a way that
said vehicle shall not be entirely within the limits of the space
so designated.
A.
In said parking meter zones, the Chief of Police or his designee shall cause parking meters to be installed upon the curb or sidewalk immediately adjacent to the parking space designated as provided in § 309-30 hereof, and he shall be responsible for the regulation, control, maintenance and use of such parking meters.
B.
Each meter shall be so set as to display a signal
showing legal parking upon the deposit of the appropriate coin or
coins, lawful money of the United States of America, for the period
of time prescribed by this article. Each meter shall be so arranged
that upon the expiration of the lawful time limit it will indicate
by a proper visible signal that the lawful parking period has expired,
and in such cases, or in the case where a coin of proper designation
is not visible in the upper coin window, the right of such vehicle
to occupy such space shall cease and the operator, owner or manager
thereof shall be subject to the penalties hereinafter provided.
[Amended 12-4-1972]
A.
Except in a period of the emergency determined by
an officer of the Fire or Police Department, or in compliance with
the directions of a police officer or traffic control sign or signal,
when any vehicle shall be parked in any parking space alongside or
next to which a parking meter is located, the operator of such vehicle
shall, upon entering the said parking meter space, immediately deposit
or cause to be deposited in said meter such proper coin of the United
States of America as is required for such parking meters.
B.
When required by the directions on the meter, the
operator of such vehicle, after the deposit of the proper coin or
coins, shall also set in operation the timing mechanism on such meter
in accordance with directions properly appearing thereon.
C.
Failure to deposit such proper coin and to set the
timing mechanism in operation when so required shall constitute a
violation of this article.
D.
Upon deposit of such coin (and the setting of the
timing mechanism in operation when so required), the parking space
may be lawfully occupied by such vehicle during the period of time
which has been prescribed for the part of the street in which said
parking space is located.
E.
Any person placing a vehicle in a parking meter space
adjacent to a meter which indicates that unused time has been left
in the meter by the previous occupant of the space shall not be required
to deposit a coin so long as a coin of the proper designation is visible
in the upper coin window and the occupancy of said space does not
exceed the indicated unused parking time.
[Amended 12-4-1972]
F.
If said vehicle described in Subsection E above shall remain parked in any such parking space beyond the parking time limit set for such parking space, and if the meter shall indicate such illegal parking or should a coin of proper designation not be visible in the upper coin window, then and in that event such vehicle shall be considered as parking overtime and beyond the period of legal parking time, and such parking shall be deemed a violation of this article.
[Amended 12-4-1972]
[Amended 8-29-2011 by L.L. No. 12-2011]
A.
Parking or standing a vehicle in a designated space
in a parking meter zone shall be lawful for the period indicated on
the meter.
B.
Said parking meters shall be operated in curb parking
meter zones every day between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m.
except Sundays and holidays; provided, however, that within the meaning
of this article the term "holiday" shall include the following days
only: the First of January, the 30th of May, the Fourth of July, the
first Monday in September, the 25th day of December, and any day designated
and set aside by the President of the United States of America as
a legal holiday.
It shall be unlawful and a violation of the
provisions of this article for any person:
A.
To cause, allow, permit or suffer any vehicle registered
in the name of or operated by such person to be parked overtime or
beyond the period of the legal parking time established for any parking
meter zone as herein described, or to deposit in any parking meter
any coin for the purpose of parking beyond the maximum legal parking
time for the particular parking meter zone.
B.
To permit any vehicle to remain or be placed in any
parking space adjacent to any parking meter while said meter is displaying
a signal indicating that any vehicle occupying such parking space
has already been parked beyond the period prescribed for such parking
space.
C.
To park any vehicle across any line or marking of
a parking meter space or in such position that the vehicle shall not
be entirely within the area designated by such lines or markings.
D.
To deface, injure, tamper with, open or willfully
break, destroy or impair the usefulness of any parking meter installed
under the provisions of this article.
E.
To deposit or cause to be deposited in any parking
meter any slugs, device or metal substance or other substitute for
lawful coins.
It shall be the duty of the Police Department
to enforce the provisions of this article.
It shall be the duty of the Village Treasurer
to designate a person or persons to make regular collections of the
money deposited in said meters, and it shall be the duty of such persons
so designated to remove from the parking meters the coins so deposited
and to deliver such coins to the Village Treasurer to count the funds
and deposit such funds as required by law.
The coins deposited in parking meters shall
be used to defray the expense of proper regulation of traffic upon
the public streets of the Village of Rockville Centre, including the
cost of the acquisition of land and constructing and maintaining off-street
parking facilities; to provide for the cost of supervision, regulation
and control of the parking of vehicles in parking meter zones; and
to cover the cost of purchases, supervision, protection, inspection,
installation, operation, maintenance, control and use of the parking
meters, insofar as such specific use of said moneys is permissible
under the law.
A.
Any person who shall violate or fail to comply with any of the provisions of this article or who shall counsel, aid or abet any such violation or failure to comply shall be deemed guilty of disorderly conduct and shall be punished by a fine not to exceed $50 or by imprisonment not to exceed 30 days, either or both penalties to be imposed at the discretion of the court; provided, nevertheless, that should the violation consist solely of parking or standing a vehicle beyond the lawful time as is provided in § 309-33 hereof, upon due notification of such violation to the operator or owner of such vehicle, the payment of a fine in such amount as may be determined by the Village Justice pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 62 of this Code, with a plea of guilty, shall be considered settlement in full of any and all penalties hereunder; and provided, further, that the privilege of paying such fine shall be limited to an operator or owner who is guilty of such violation as a first offense. An operator or owner guilty of second or further violations shall be subject to the imposition of such penalties as may be imposed by the Village Justice.
[Amended 5-1-1972]
B.
Failure to pay as hereby provided or to appear voluntarily
in court will subject the operator or owner of such vehicle to a warrant
for arrest and the imposition of such penalties as the law may provide.
Nothing in this article shall be construed as
prohibiting the Village of Rockville Centre from providing for bus
stops, for taxicab stands and similar matters, including the loading
or unloading of trucks, vans or other commercial vehicles.
It shall be a violation of the provisions of
this article for any person to park, cause, allow, permit or suffer
any vehicle registered in the name of or operated by such person to
commit any violation prohibited by this article.
