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Editor's Note: Former § 193-60,
Definitions, was repealed 6-13-1979 by Ord. No. 1979-27.
Any and all parking lots and facilities now
or hereafter owned, operated, constructed or maintained by the Authority
are and shall be public parking lots, and the same are hereby constituted
and are to be known as "parking meter zones."
[Amended 6-13-1979 by Ord. No. 1979-27]
In each of said public parking lots, the Authority
shall install parking meters. Said parking meters shall be placed
immediately adjacent to or in front of the parking places hereinafter
described. Each parking meter shall be placed or set in such a manner
as to show or display by signal that the parking place adjacent to
such meter is or is not legally in use. Each parking meter installed
shall indicate by a proper legend the legal parking time established
by ordinance and, when operated, shall indicate thereon and by its
dial that it is in legal use and, upon the expiration of the time
for which a coin or coins were inserted therein, shall indicate illegal
or overparking.
The Authority shall have lines or markings painted
or placed upon the pavement adjacent to each parking meter for the
purpose of designating the parking area for which said meter is to
be used, and each vehicle parked adjacent thereto or in front thereof
or next to any parking meter shall park within the lines or markings
so established. It shall be unlawful and a violation of this article
to park any vehicle across any such line or marking or to park said
vehicle in such position that the same shall not be entirely within
the area so designated by such lines or markings.
When any vehicle shall be parked in any such space adjacent to, next to or in front of which a parking meter is located in accordance with the provisions of this article, the operator of said vehicle shall, upon entering the parking space, immediately deposit or cause to be deposited coin(s) of the United States, or such token(s) as may be approved by resolution of the Authority, in such 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 in § 193-70 hereof, except as hereinafter provided. Such parking space may be lawfully occupied by such vehicle for a period of time equal to the amount of money or tokens deposited at the rate determined by the Parking Authority. If said vehicle shall remain parked in any such parking space beyond the parking time paid or as indicated on said parking meter and the parking meter indicates such illegal parking, then and in that event such vehicle shall be considered as parked overtime and beyond the period of legal parking time as above set forth.
It shall be unlawful and a violation of the
provisions of this article for any person to cause, allow, permit
or suffer any vehicles registered in the name of or operated by such
person to be parked overtime or beyond the period of legal parking
time herein established for any public parking lot as herein described,
as hereinafter provided.
Except as hereinafter provided, it shall be
unlawful and a violation of the provisions of this article for any
person to permit a vehicle to remain in any parking meter space while
said meter is displaying a signal indicating that the vehicle occupying
such parking space has already been parked beyond the period of time
prescribed for such parking space.
It shall be unlawful and a violation of the
provisions of this article to deposit or cause to be deposited in
any parking meter any slug, device, counterfeit coin or metallic substitute
for coins of the United States, except as approved by resolution of
the Authority.
Upon payment to the Authority of the proper
fee, a person may be permitted to park a designated vehicle in a designated
public parking lot space for a period of one month. The Authority
shall issue to such person a sticker or other suitable sign to be
placed on the vehicle designated thereon showing the month during
which such vehicle may be parked in a designated public parking lot
space. A vehicle bearing such monthly parking sticker or sign may,
during the calendar month shown thereon, be parked in a designated
parking space at any time. The Authority shall have the right, from
time to time, to limit the number of monthly parkers in any or all
of the parking lots or facilities owned, operated and maintained by
it. In the event that there are more applications for monthly parking
spaces than spaces available, they may be assigned in the order that
the applications are received.
A.
It shall be unlawful and a violation of the provisions
of this article for any person 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.
B.
It shall be unlawful and a violation of the provisions
of this article for any person to drive and operate a motor vehicle
through any parking lot or facility owned, operated and maintained
by the Authority for the purpose of using any such parking lot or
facility as a public thoroughfare; and no person shall drive any motor
vehicle into any such parking lot facility for any other purpose than
to park lawfully under the terms hereof as a patron in such parking
lot or facility, unless otherwise permitted by the Authority or through
its authorized agents.
C.
It shall be unlawful and a violation of the provisions
of this article for any person to drive and operate a motor vehicle
through any parking lot or facility owned, operated and maintained
by the Authority carelessly or without due caution and circumspection
in a manner as to endanger or be likely to endanger a person or property.
A.
It shall be the duty of the police officers of the
Borough of South River, acting in accordance with instructions issued
by the Police Committee Chairman, to report;
(1)
The number of each parking meter which indicates that
the vehicle occupying the parking space adjacent to such parking meter
is or has been in violation of any of the provisions of this article.
(2)
Any other facts or knowledge of which is necessary
to a thorough understanding of the circumstances attending each violation.
B.
Each police officer shall also attach to such vehicle a traffic ticket or summons showing the owner or operator thereof that such vehicle has been parked in violation of the provisions of this article and summoning such owner or operator to appear before the Municipal Court of the Borough of South River in regard to such violation. In the case of any person charged with any traffic offense under this article, the disposition of which is within the authority of the Violations Clerk prior to the return date of the summons, the Judge in his discretion may authorize the Violations Clerk to accept such plea and payment at any subsequent date. Fines for violations shall be the same as provided for on street parking meter zones and may be paid in the same manner as tickets issued under Article XIII as set forth in § 193-56C.[1]
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Editor's Note: Section 193-56C was repealed
2-13-1980 by Ord. No. 1980-4. Said § 193-56C read as follows:
“C. Each such owner or operator may,
within seven (7) days of the time when such notice was attached to
such vehicle, pay to the proper court personnel, as a penalty for
and in full satisfaction of an overtime parking violation, the sume
of two dollars ($2); and the failure of such owner or operator to
make such payment within said seven (7) days shall render such owner
or operator subject to the penalties hereinafter provided for violation
of the provisions of this article.”
C.
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate
any of the provisions of this article shall, upon conviction, be punished
by a fine not to exceed $50 or by imprisonment in the county jail
for a period not to exceed 15 days, or by both such fine and imprisonment,
and each violation of any of the provisions of this article and each
day there is a violation thereof shall be deemed and taken to be a
separate and distinct offense.
D.
In order to implement such enforcement of applicable
laws, ordinances and regulations, the appointment by or on behalf
of the municipality, upon designation from time to time by the Authority,
of persons to serve, pursuant to N.J.S.A. 40:14-146, but under the
supervision and direction of the Authority, as special policemen of
the municipality with full power and authority, in such manner and
to such extent as may be approved on behalf of such municipality,
to issue summonses for violations of any provisions of said laws,
ordinances or regulations, to serve and execute all process with respect
to any such violation issuing out of the police court of the municipality
by whatsoever name the same shall be known and to cause any vehicle
parked, stored or abandoned in violation of any provision of said
laws, ordinances or regulations to be towed away from the scene of
such violation and to collect from the owner of such vehicle the costs
of the towing and subsequent storage of said vehicle before surrendering
said vehicle to such owner.
