The following portions of streets in the Borough of Lansdowne, except
for such areas thereon where parking is now or hereafter shall be
prohibited by law and except for spaces designed by the Mayor and
Chief of Police as loading or unloading zones, bus and taxicab stops
and entrances to churches, schools and theaters, are hereby designated
as parking meter zones:
The west side of Lansdowne Avenue between the railroad bridge over
the tracks of the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad
Company and the south side of Stewart Avenue.
The east side of Lansdowne Avenue between the railroad bridge over
the tracks of the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad
Company and the south side of Lansdowne Avenue.
The Borough Manager of the Borough of Lansdowne shall direct the
painting or otherwise placing of lines or markings upon the curb,
sidewalk and/or street of such parking meter zones for the purpose
of designating individual parking spaces. Each individual parking
space shall be approximately 22 feet in length along and parallel
to the curb and approximately eight feet in width.
The proper officers of the Borough are hereby authorized and directed
to enter into a contract for the purchase and installation of parking
meters as may be necessary for the number of individual parking spaces
to be provided and to enter into a contract or contracts for such
spare parts and maintenance as may be necessary to keep the parking
meters in good operating condition.
Each parking meter shall be placed upon the sidewalk, immediately
adjacent to an individual parking space, and in such position relative
to the individual parking space and other parking meters as to leave
no reasonable doubt as to the individual parking space for which such
meter indicates parking time. Each parking meter installed shall indicate
by a proper legend the legal parking time established by the Borough
for such individual parking space and, when operated, shall indicate
on and by its dial and pointer the duration of the period of legal
parking and, on the expiration of such period, shall indicate illegal
or over-parking.
After the marking of such individual parking spaces and the installation
of parking meters adjacent thereto, it shall be unlawful for the owner
or operator of any vehicle to park such vehicle between the hours
of 8:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m., Eastern standard time, or Eastern daylight
saving time when the same is generally observed within the Borough,
on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, or between 8:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m.,
Eastern standard time, or Eastern daylight saving time when the same
is generally observed within the Borough, on other days of the week,
except Sundays, in violation of the provisions of this section, upon
those portions of the streets hereby designated as parking meter zones;
and further provided, however, that the provisions of this section
as to violations shall be inoperative as to parking on Sundays and
on the following legal holidays: January 1, Memorial Day, July 4,
Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and December 25, and in the event that
any of said legal holidays occurs on a Sunday, then the provisions
of this section as to violations shall be inoperative on the Monday
following such legal holiday.
[Amended 11-14-1960 by Ord. No. 792; 6-1-2011 by Ord. No. 1262]
It shall be unlawful and a violation of this section to park any
vehicle in the parking meter zone other than entirely within the lines
or markings of an individual parking area, with the foremost part
of the vehicle nearest to the parking meter.
When any vehicle shall be parked in an individual parking space during
the time of limited parking, the owner or operator of such vehicle
shall, upon entering such individual parking space, immediately deposit
or cause to be deposited one or more twenty-five-cent coins of the
United States in the parking meter adjacent to the individual parking
space occupied by such vehicle. Failure to deposit such coin or coins
or failure to operate such meter in accordance with the instructions
thereon shall constitute a violation of this section. Upon the deposit
of such coin or coins and placing the meter in operation, such individual
parking space may be occupied lawfully by such vehicle for 60 minutes
for every twenty-five-cent coin; provided, however, that no deposit
of coin or coins shall entitle any vehicle to occupy an individual
parking space for longer than the period permissible for the total
of such coins so deposited. If any vehicle shall remain parked in
any individual parking space for such a length of time that the meter
shall indicate by proper signal that the lawful parking period has
expired, such vehicle shall be considered as parking overtime and
in violation of this section.
[Amended 4-9-1962 by Ord. No. 810; 1-20-1988 by Ord. No. 1073]
Editor's Note: Former Subsection H, added 3-22-1961 by Ord.
No. 796, and which stated that the Police Committee could designate
up to 12 parking spaces on the east side of Highland Avenue from the
north side of Baltimore Avenue to the south side of LaCrosse Avenue
as ten-hour parking, was repealed 6-1-2011 by Ord. No. 1262.
It shall be the duty of each police officer of the Borough to report to the Police Chief by special parking meter tickets, numbered consecutively, the following information for each violation of Subsections E, F and G of this section reported by him:
The number of the parking meter which indicates that the vehicle
was parked in the adjacent individual parking space in violation of
any of the provisions of this section.
Each police officer or parking enforcement officer shall also place
on each vehicle reported for violation of any of the provisions of
this section a notice to the owner or operator thereof that the vehicle
has been parked in violation of the provisions of this section and
instructing such owner or operator to pay, within 10 days, a penalty
of not less than $2 and not more than $50 to the police headquarters
of the Borough of Lansdowne. The exact amount of the fine may be determined
by resolution of the Borough Council from time to time. Failure to
pay within the prescribed time will result in an additional penalty
of $10 for each violation.
It shall be unlawful to deposit or cause to be deposited in any parking
meter any slug, device or metallic substitute for any coin of the
United States.
It shall be unlawful for any person to deface, injure, tamper with
or willfully break, destroy or impair the usefulness of any parking
meter installed under the provisions of this section.
It shall be unlawful for any person to deposit or cause to be deposited
in a parking meter any coin for the purpose of increasing or extending
the parking time of any vehicle beyond the total legal parking time
of two hours.
The provisions of this section may be temporarily suspended by the
Mayor, and he may prescribe temporarily such other rules and regulations
as traffic conditions may require.
The coins required to be deposited in parking meters as provided
herein are hereby levied and assessed as fees to provide for the proper
regulation and control of traffic upon the highways, including the
cost of supervising and regulating the parking of vehicles in the
parking meter zones created hereby, and the cost of the purchase,
installation, supervision, protection, inspection, operation, maintenance,
control and use of the parking meters. The coins deposited in parking
meters shall be collected and accounted for under the direction of
the Borough Manager and shall be deposited by him in the general Borough
account at least once a week.
Any person, firm or corporation violating any of the provisions of
this section or aiding, abetting or assisting in the violation of
any such provisions shall, upon conviction before a Magisterial District
Judge, be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than $2 and not more
than $50 and costs of prosecution for each offense and, in default
of the payments of such fine and costs of prosecution, shall undergo
imprisonment in the Borough lockup or the county jail for a period
not exceeding 10 days.