The Police Department is hereby authorized to provide for the marking off of individual parking spaces in the parking zones and areas designated and described in §
144-40, said parking spaces to be designated by lines painted or marked on the curbing or surface of the highway or area. At each space so marked off, 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.
[Amended 9-21-1993 by Ord. No. 622, approved 9-21-1993]
A. In said parking meter zones, parking meters shall be installed upon the curb, sidewalk or pavements immediately adjacent to the parking spaces provided in §
144-40 of this article. The Borough Council or its designee shall be responsible for the regulation, control, operation or maintenance and use of such parking meters. The Borough Manager is authorized to appoint one or more parking meter attendants to enforce the regulations set forth in this article, §
144-36.
B. Each device shall be so set as to display a signal
showing legal parking upon the deposit of the appropriate coin for
the period of time hereinafter prescribed. Each device 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 case the right of such vehicle to occupy
such space shall cease and the operator, owner, possessor or manager
thereof shall be subject to the penalties hereinafter provided.
C. In the event that the operator, owner, possessor or
manager of a vehicle occupying a space with an expired meter desires
to have the accuracy of said meter validated, he/she shall pay to
the Borough of Shippensburg a fee of $10. In the event that the meter
is found to be accurate, within 10 seconds, the fee shall not be refunded.
If the meter is found to be more than 10 seconds fast, the fee specified
above shall be refunded to the operator, owner, possessor or manager
of the vehicle and the fine abated.
When any vehicle shall be parked in any space
adjacent to which a parking meter is located in accordance with the
provisions of this article, the operator shall, upon entering the
said parking space, immediately deposit or cause to be deposited such
coin or coins of the United States as is required for such parking
meter and as is designated by proper instructions on the parking meter,
and failure to deposit such coin or coins shall constitute a breach
of this article and shall subject such person to the penalty prescribed
hereinafter. Upon the deposit of such coin or coins and placing said
meter in operation, the parking space may be lawfully occupied by
such vehicle during the period of parking time which has been prescribed
for the zone in which said parking space is located and for which
a coin or coins is or are deposited, as indicated on the parking meter.
If said vehicle shall remain parked in any such parking space beyond
the parking time limit so fixed for such parking space, the parking
meter shall, by its violation signal, dial or pointer, indicate such
illegal parking, and in that event such vehicle shall be considered
as parked overtime and beyond the period of legal parking time. The
parking of a vehicle overtime or beyond the period of legal parking
time in any such space where any such parking meter is located shall
be a violation of this article and punishable as hereinafter set forth.
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 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 the 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 slug, device or metal substance or other substitute for
lawful coins.
F. To park or permit the parking of any vehicle in any
parking meter space where the meter does not register lawful parking.
It shall be the duty of the Chief of Police
to designate some proper person or persons to make regular collections
of the moneys deposited in said meters.
[Amended 12-27-1990 by Ord. No. 594, approved 12-27-1990]
The charges for parking in the zones established
above shall be $0.05 for each 30 minutes or portion thereof and $0.10
for each 60 minutes or portion thereof, to a maximum aggregate period
of parking time to 120 minutes or portion thereof.