[Adopted 5-10-2018 by Ord. No. 2018-03[1]]
[1]
Editor’s Note: This ordinance also repealed former Article
IV, Parking Meter Zones, adopted 11-14-1985 by Ord. No. 85-8, as amended.
A.
Words and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the meanings
ascribed to them in the Vehicle Code (75 Pa.C.S.A. § 101
et seq.), as amended, except that in this article, the word "street"
may be used interchangeably with the word "highway," and shall have
the same meaning as the word "highway" as defined in the Vehicle Code.
B.
In this article, the singular shall include the plural, the plural
shall include the singular, and the masculine shall include the feminine.
C.
The provisions of this article, so far as they are the same as those
of ordinances and regulations in force immediately before the enactment
of this article, are intended as a continuation of those earlier ordinances
and regulations, and not as new enactments. Nothing in this article
shall affect any act done or liability incurred, or any suit or prosecution
pending or to be instituted under any of those repealed or superseded
ordinances or regulations.
D.
Kiosk. The term "kiosk" may be used interchangeably with "multi-space
parking meter" in this article.
[Amended 9-14-2023 by Ord. No. 2023-03]
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Location
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Rate
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Maximum Parking Time
(hours)
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Cash
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Credit Card
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a)
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Beginning at Quarry Street eastward
along the south side of Broadway to Spring Alley, and from Spring
Alley along both sides of Broadway and Market Square to Susquehanna
Street; on Hazard Square along the east side, north side and a portion
of the west side; along the west side of Susquehanna Street from Broadway
to the Mansion House Hill
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$1 per hour (and any part thereof)
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$1.25 per hour (and any part thereof
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5
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b)
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Between designated parking signs
along Lehigh Avenue
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$1 per hour (and any part thereof)
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$1.25 per hour (and any part thereof)
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5
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c)
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At designated parking areas along
the south side of Broadway in the area of 65 Broadway
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$1 per hour (and any part thereof)
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$1.25 per hour (and any part thereof)
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5
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d)
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At designated parking area on the
north side of High Street
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$1 per hour (and any part thereof)
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$1.25 per hour (and any part thereof)
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5
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e)
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At designated parking area on the
north side of West Broadway near The Stabin Gallery/Museum
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$1 per hour (and any part thereof)
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$1.25 per hour (and any part thereof)
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5
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Persons who have obtained residential parking permits per Article X below shall be permitted to park in items d) and e) above without use of the parking kiosk. Further, persons using the parking kiosk in items d) and e) above shall only be permitted to use the kiosk, through the kiosk system, Monday through Friday (excluding national legal holidays) from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
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A.
Parking kiosks shall be operated by the deposit of currency, credit card or other approved manners of payment as set forth in § 420-16 below, and the parking rates for specified lengths of time as well as the maximum parking times, prescribed in § 420-12, shall apply at all times between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. seven days a week in the parking kiosk zones listed in § 420-12.
B.
The Jim Thorpe Borough Council, at its discretion, may provide, at
convenient and suitable locations in any one or more of the parking
spaces, special purpose fifteen-minute parking and shall designate
these spaces by appropriate signs providing notice of the parking
rate of said space, that the maximum time limit is 15 minutes. It
shall be unlawful, and a violation of this article, for any person
to park for more than 15 consecutive minutes in a parking space designated
by Jim Thorpe Borough Council as a special purpose fifteen-minute
parking space.
C.
Provided space is available, the Jim Thorpe Borough Police Department,
upon application by builders and contractors, is permitted to issue
official traffic devices, placards or other parking receipts permitting
the applicant to park at a designated kiosk parking area while in
the process of doing building and construction work, at a daily fee
of $10 for each day the device, placard or receipt is retained by
the builder or contractor. In no event shall parking privileges by
the use of a parking device be permitted for a period greater than
45 days.
A.
Multi-space parking meters/kiosks will be installed in several locations of the parking kiosk zones established by this article, and such kiosks shall be placed at such key points in the parking district with clear signage to indicate their locations. The parking kiosk zones as designated in § 420-12 shall be designated by signage placed by the Borough.
B.
Except as provided in Subsection D below, each kiosk shall issue a temporary parking permit which may be used in any specific or unrestricted parking space in the Kiosk Parking Area, as applicable, and will indicate by proper legend the parking rate and hours established by this article. When the kiosk meter is activated by the insertion of United States currency, debit card or credit card, kiosk will dispense a temporary parking receipt for the date indicating the amount of time requested and paid for. The parking receipt is the temporary parking permit.
C.
The parking permit/receipt shall be prominently displayed by the
vehicle operator on the passenger's side dashboard and/or the lower
right corner of the passenger's side windshield of the parked vehicle
in a secure manner so that the expiration time of the parking period
as shown on the receipt is clearly visible to the parking enforcement
officer. Failure to display the parking permit/receipt in this manner
shall constitute a separate violation of this chapter.
D.
It shall not be necessary to display a parking permit/receipt on
the vehicle dashboard showing the duration of the legally purchased
parking time or the expiration of that period where a special placard
has been issued by the Borough Police Department. The placard shall
be displayed in the windshield on the passenger side.
E.
Upon the expiration of time of the parking period allowed for on
the parking permit/receipt the vehicle shall be parked in violation
of this chapter and may be ticketed per the terms of this chapter.
F.
Each hour after the date of the initial violation that the vehicle
improperly displays the parking permit/receipt or remains in the space
after the parking time has expired will be considered a separate violation
of this chapter.
Lines and/or markings shall be painted or placed upon the curb,
sidewalk or roadway adjacent to each parking space for the purpose
of delineating the parking space for which the kiosk shall be used.
Every vehicle parked at any parking space shall be parked wholly within
the lines or markings so placed and applicable to that space. It shall
be unlawful and a violation of this article for any person to park
a vehicle across any such line or marking, or to park a vehicle in
such a position that the vehicle is not wholly within the area designated
by those lines or markings.
A.
Whenever a vehicle is to be parked in the parking kiosk zone during any times designated in § 420-13, the driver of the vehicle, upon entering the parking space, shall immediately deposit such currency or other form of payment in a parking kiosk to obtain a temporary parking permit to be displayed in his vehicle as set forth in this article.
B.
The following methods are the approved means of payment for use of
any parking space in a parking kiosk zone:
(1)
Deposit of coins and/or bills (United States currency) where applicable
in the kiosk.
(2)
Insertion of a valid debit card or credit card in the kiosk.
(3)
By purchasing parking time by using a telecommunication device (i.e.,
phone, computer, mobile device etc.,) through a software application
administered by a third-party vendor approved by the Borough.
It shall be unlawful for any person to deposit in any parking
kiosk installed under the provisions of this article any slug or other
substitute for a coin of the United States of America.
A.
Whenever a vehicle is to be parked in any parking space in the parking kiosk zone, the operator or driver of the vehicle, upon entering the parking space, shall immediately purchase a desired duration of parking time in a manner approved under § 420-16 of this chapter.
B.
Upon making the required payment for legal parking time through a method authorized in § 420-16 of this chapter, the parking space may be lawfully occupied by the vehicle for the time indicated on the temporary parking permit.
C.
During the parking kiosk hours of operation, if any vehicle remains
in any parking space for such length of time that the face of the
parking permit/receipt dispensed by the kiosk indicates by proper
signal that the lawful parking time has expired, that vehicle shall
be considered as having been parked overtime and the parking of a
vehicle overtime shall be a violation of this chapter. Each hour that
the vehicle remains in this space after the parking time is expired
shall be considered a separate violation of this chapter.
It shall be unlawful, and a violation of this chapter, for any
person to deface, tamper with, open or willfully break, destroy or
impair the usefulness of the parking meter kiosk installed under the
provisions of this chapter. Nothing in this section shall apply to
the servicing or opening of the kiosk by officers, employees or police
officers of the Borough under the direction of the Chief of Police.
A.
During the hours of parking kiosk operation, it shall be unlawful
and a violation of this article for any person to permit a vehicle
to remain in a parking space when either the parking permit/receipt
issued by the kiosk indicates that the lawful time is expired and/or,
where applicable, the parking time purchase for use of such space
through the payment software application has expired.
B.
Unless authorized under a separate subsection of this article, it
shall be unlawful, and a violation of this article, for any person
to permit a vehicle to be in a parking space in the parking kiosk
zone without a temporary parking permit placed on the dashboard as
indicated above.
A.
It is the duty of the police officers and parking enforcement personnel
of the Borough acting in accordance with the directions of the Chief
of Police to report: the date and hour of the violation; the license
number of the vehicle; and any other factors, the knowledge of which
is necessary for a thorough understanding of the circumstances attending
the violation.
B.
The police officer or other person making the report shall also place
on or attach to the vehicle a notice to the owner or driver of the
vehicle that the vehicle was parked in violation of this article instructing
the owner or driver that he shall pay, for the use of the Borough:
[Amended 1-13-2022 by Ord. No. 2022-01]
(1)
Where the parking violation has to do with the parking in the parking kiosk zone, the sum of $20 within 48 hours after the time of the notice, the sum of $25 when such payment is made more than 48 hours but not more than five days after the time of the notice, or the sum of $30 when such payment is made more than five days but less than 10 days after the time of the notice enclosed with the develope provided, at the Borough Police Department or any of the special parking fine boxes installed in various locations within the Borough within the time limit. Payment will save the violator from prosecution and from payment of the fine prescribed in § 420-22 of this article; or
(2)
In the case of all parking violations other than a parking kiosk violation, the sum of $30 within 48 hours after the time of the notice, or the sum of $35 when such payment is made more than 48 hours but not more than five days after the time of the notice, or the sum of $40 when such payment is made more than five days but not more than 10 days after the time of the notice enclosed within the envelope provided, at the Borough Police Department or any of the special parking fine boxes installed in various locations within the Borough of Jim Thorpe within that time limit. Payment will save the violator from prosecution and from payment of the fine prescribed in § 420-22 of this article.
A.
By resolution, Council may temporarily suspend the provisions of
this article.
B.
The Borough of Jim Thorpe shall have the authority to establish no-parking
or special-purpose parking zones within any parking kiosk zone and
to remove parking spaces from those areas as previously designated,
and the provisions of this article shall not apply in those areas
where no parking or special-purpose parking is in effect.
