The following words and phrases, which are not defined in Subtitle 1 of Title 39 of the Revised Statutes of New Jersey, shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them in this section for the purposes of Part 2 of this chapter:
COMMON PAYMENT STATION SPACE
Any space within a common payment station zone, which space is duly designated and demarcated by a number, for the parking of a single vehicle by lines painted or otherwise duly marked on the curb or on the surface of the street, which numbered demarcation shall be consistent with the spaces numbered in the common payment station.
PARKING METER
Any mechanical device, meter, or common payment station not inconsistent with Part 2 of this chapter placed or erected for the regulation of parking by authority of Part 2 of this chapter. Each parking meter or common payment station installed shall indicate, by proper legend, the legal parking time 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.
PARKING METER/COMMON PAYMENT STATION ZONE
Any restricted street upon which parking meters are installed and are in operation.
PARKING METER SPACE
Any space within a parking meter zone, adjacent to a parking meter, which space is duly designated for the parking of a single vehicle by lines painted or otherwise duly marked on the curb or on the surface of the street adjacent to or adjoining the parking meters.
The Chief of Police is hereby directed and authorized to provide for the marking off of individual parking spaces in the parking zones designated and described in Schedule XXII, attached to and made a part of Part 2 of this chapter,[1] said parking spaces to be designated by lines painted or marked on the curbing or surface of the street, and to be properly numbered if the space is associated with a common payment station. 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.
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Editor's Note: See § 214-61 of this chapter.
A. 
In said parking meter zones, the Chief of Police shall cause parking meters to be installed upon the curb or sidewalk immediately adjacent to the parking spaces provided in said Schedule XXII. No parking meters shall be installed in areas where parking is prohibited pursuant to the provisions of N.J.S.A. 39:4-138.
B. 
In said common payment station zones, the Chief of Police shall cause common payment stations to be installed upon the curb or sidewalk within the vicinity of all demarcated parking spaces provided in said Schedule XXII. No common payment stations shall be installed in areas where parking is prohibited pursuant to the provisions of N.J.S.A. 39:4-138.
C. 
The Chief of Police shall be responsible for the regulation, control, operation, maintenance and use of such parking meters or common payment stations.
D. 
Each device shall be so set as to display a signal showing legal parking upon the deposit of the appropriate coin, lawful money of the United States of America, for the period of time prescribed by said Schedule XXII. 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.
A. 
Except in a period of 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, or in a space demarcated by a number corresponding to a space in a common payment station, the operator of such vehicle shall, upon entering the said parking meter space or common payment station space, immediately deposit or cause to be deposited in said meter or common payment station such proper coin, bill, or electronic payment of the United States of America as is required for such parking meter or common payment station and as is designated by proper directions on the meter or common payment station; and when required by the directions on the meter or common payment station, the operator of such vehicle, after the deposit of the proper coin, bills, or electronic payment, shall also set in operation the timing mechanism on such meter in accordance with directions properly appearing thereon; and failure to deposit such proper coin, bill or electronic payment, and to set the timing mechanism in operation when so required shall constitute a violation of Part 2 of this chapter.
B. 
Upon the deposit of such coin, bill or electronic payment, 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, provided that 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 his occupancy of said space does not exceed the indicated unused parking time.
C. 
If said vehicle 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, 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 Part 2 of this chapter.
When a parking meter space is parallel with the adjacent curb or sidewalk, no person shall park or permit the parking of any vehicle in such parking space in any position other than with the foremost part of such vehicle nearest to the parking meter; when a parking meter space is diagonal to the curb or sidewalk, no person shall park or permit the parking of any vehicle in such parking space in any position other than with the foremost part of such vehicle nearest to the parking meter; when a parking meter shall have been installed at the head of and immediately adjacent to any parking space in a municipal off-street parking lot, no person shall park or permit the parking of any vehicle in such parking space in any position other than with the foremost part of such vehicle nearest to the parking meter. In any event, a vehicle shall be parked within the lines marked on the pavement measuring such parking space. When parking in a common payment station parking space, the operator shall park or permit the parking of the vehicle in such space in the position delineated by the painted lines on the asphalt, curb, or sidewalk.
It shall be unlawful and a violation of the provisions of Part 2 of this chapter for any person to:
A. 
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 or common payment station zone, as herein described, or to deposit in any parking meter or common payment station any coin, bill or electronic payment, for the purpose of parking beyond the maximum legal parking time for the particular parking meter zone or common payment station zone.
B. 
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. 
Park any vehicle across any line or marking of a parking meter space or common payment station space or in such position that the vehicle shall not be entirely within the area designated by such lines or markings.
D. 
Deface, injure, tamper with, open or willfully break, destroy or impair the usefulness of any parking meter or common payment station installed under the provisions of Part 2 of this chapter.
E. 
Deposit or cause to be deposited in any parking meter or common payment station any slug, device or metal substance or other substitute for lawful coins.
F. 
Park or permit the parking of any vehicle in any parking meter space or common payment station space where the meter or station does not register lawful parking.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
Any vehicle left parked for a period exceeding 12 hours succeeding expiration of the period permitted by the fee deposited in the parking meter or common payment station controlling the space in which the vehicle is parked shall be towed, under the direction of the Police Department, to the place designated by the Chief of Police for impoundment, subject to redemption by the owner upon payment of the reasonable cost of towing and a storage charge in the amounts set forth in Chapter 114, Fee Schedule
The coins required to be deposited in parking meters, and the coins and bills required to be deposited in common payment stations, as provided herein, are hereby levied and assessed as fees to provide for the proper regulation and control of traffic upon the public streets and also the cost of supervising and regulating the parking of vehicles in the parking meter zones created hereby and to cover the cost of the purchase, supervision, protection, inspection, installation, operation, maintenance, control and use of the parking meters and common payment stations described herein.
It shall be the duty of the Chief of Police to designate the proper person or persons to make regular collections of the moneys deposited in said meters and payment stations, and it shall be the duty of said person or persons so designated to remove from the parking meters and common payment stations the locked containers therein containing the monies so deposited in said meters and stations and to deliver such locked containers to a designated bank for deposit in the usual manner provided by law.
Parking or standing a vehicle in a parking meter space or in a common payment station space in the parking meter or common payment station zones described in Schedule XXII, attached to and made a part of Part 2 of this chapter, shall be lawful only when not in excess of the maximum parking time indicated during the hours of operation specified, on all days as specified therein, and only upon the deposit of such amount as is indicated for each specified period of time.
Unless another penalty is expressly provided by New Jersey statute, every person convicted of a violation of a provision of Part 2 of this chapter or any supplement thereto shall be liable to a penalty of not more than $50 or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 15 days, or both. In addition to or as a substitute for the previously mentioned fine, the imposition of community service shall be authorized as an additional penalty, which community service shall not exceed 90 days.