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 §
156-37, 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.
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
hereafter. 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.
[Added 5-12-1983 by Ord. No. 1563]
A. Definitions. As used in this section, the following
terms shall have the meanings indicated:
DISABLED VETERAN
Any veteran who is eligible to receive a disabled veteran
plate or disabled veteran placard as defined in Section 1342 of Vehicle
Code, 75 Pa.C.S.A. § 1342, or any subsequent amendment thereto.
DISABLED VETERAN PLACARD
As defined in Section 1342(b) of the Vehicle Code, 75 Pa.C.S.A.
§ 1342(b), or any subsequent amendment thereto.
DISABLED VETERAN PLATE
As defined in Section 1342(a) of the Vehicle Code, 75 Pa.C.S.A.
§ 1342(a), or any subsequent amendment thereto.
HANDICAPPED PARKING PLACARD
As defined in Section 1338(b) of the Vehicle Code, 75 Pa.C.S.A.
§ 1338(b), or any subsequent amendment thereto.
HANDICAPPED PLATE
As defined in Section 1338(a) of the Vehicle Code, 75 Pa.C.S.A.
§ 1338(a), or any subsequent amendment thereto.
PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED PERSON
Any person who is eligible to receive a handicapped plate
or handicapped parking placard as defined in Section 1338 of the Vehicle
Code, 75 Pa.C.S.A. § 1338, or any subsequent amendment thereto.
B. Exemption for disabled veterans, handicapped persons,
former prisoners of war and Congressional Medal of Honor holders from
parking time limits and parking meter fees.
(1)
When a motor vehicle bearing a disabled veterans
plate, disabled veteran placard, a handicapped plate, a handicapped
placard, a prisoner of war plate or a Congressional Medal of Honor
plate is being operated by or for transportation of a disabled veteran
or a physically handicapped person, the driver shall be entitled to
park without limitation as to time and without payment of any parking
meter fees on streets where parking is limited but not prohibited
by Abington parking regulations or by the Vehicle Code.
(2)
Such motor vehicles shall comply with all parking
prohibitions.
C. Any parking place in Abington Township which is prominently
marked restricted for use only by handicapped motor vehicle operators
(or for transportation of a handicapped person) may only be lawfully
utilized by motor vehicles prominently displaying license plates or
placards, described in these regulations.
D. Eligibility requirements for special parking privileges.
(1)
Disabled veteran plate and/or handicapped plate
and/or parking placards and/or handicapped parking placard and/or
prisoner of war plate and/or Congressional Medal of Honor plate shall
be prominently displayed on the motor vehicle.
(2)
Except for persons parking vehicles lawfully
bearing registration plates or parking placards issued to disabled
veterans, physically handicapped persons, former prisoners of war
or Congressional Medal of Honor holders, no person shall park a vehicle
in parking spaces reserved for these persons.
E. The only placard recognized by this section is the
placard issued by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
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 corns.
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 4-6-1982 by Ord. No. 1539; 3-12-1998 by Ord. No.
1809]
The charge for the zones established above shall
be $0.25, in the form of a twenty-five-cent coin, for parking 60 minutes
or any portion thereof.