No vehicle, except public hacks at public hack
stands, shall stop, stand or park on any street or highway in the
Incorporated Village of Floral Park, New York, for a longer period
than four hours.
A.
No vehicle shall stop, stand or park in any municipal
parking field in the Incorporated Village of Floral Park, New York,
for a longer period than two hours.
[Amended 3-6-1990 by Res. No. 90-22]
B.
This section shall not apply to the Commuters' Parking
Field in the Incorporated Village of Floral Park, New York.
A.
No vehicle shall be parked or permitted to stand unattended
on a street or public highway in the Village between the hours of
3:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m.
B.
This local law shall not apply to the parking, during
the time specified above, of any vehicle used by a clergyman, practicing
physician, public official or employee, public utility repairman or
other person while rendering an essential service during an emergency.
C.
Notwithstanding the above, the Board of Trustees may
create an exception, by resolution, for temporary overnight parking
for registered passenger vehicles (noncommercial) owned by a person
residing in the area, provided that the Board of Trustees finds that
there is inadequate off-street parking in the area and that this local
law would create hardship on the Village residents.
[Added 5-15-1990 by L.L. No. 4-1990]
A.
The purpose of this section is to promote and protect
the public health, welfare and safety by restricting the parking of
commercial vehicles in residential districts of the Village, except
under certain specified circumstances. It is intended to reduce the
risk of injury to pedestrians by reducing unnecessary commercial parking.
It is also intended to discourage persons from operating business
uses out of their homes which are not permitted by the Zoning Ordinance[1] in residential districts. It is further intended to deter
crime in residential areas by restricting the parking of commercial
vehicles during evening hours when business is not conducted. Furthermore,
it is intended to protect property values, create a more attractive
environment in residential areas, enhance and protect the physical
appearance of the residential community, to preserve the scenic and
natural beauty of residential areas, and to provide a more enjoyable
and pleasing community.
B.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter,
no commercial vehicle shall be parked or permitted to stand unattended
on a Village street or public highway in a residential district between
the hours of 7:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. or at any time on Sunday or on
a public holiday recognized by the Village.
C.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter,
no commercial vehicle shall be parked or permitted to stand unattended
on a Village street or public highway in a residential district between
the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m., except for the purpose of delivering
a product or rendering a service, and then only during such delivery
or service to a residence on that block.
D.
This section shall not apply to the parking of any
commercial vehicles used by a public official or employee, public
utility repairman or other persons while rendering an essential service
during an emergency.
The parking of trucks is hereby prohibited in
any of the following locations:
|
Name of Street
|
Side
|
Location
|
|---|---|---|
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Fern Street
[Added 10-7-1997 by Res. No. 97-134] |
East
|
25 feet north of Tulip Avenue
|
|
Hill Street
[Added 10-7-1997 by Res. No. 97-134] |
East
|
21 feet north of Tulip Avenue
|
|
Jericho Turnpike
[Added 10-24-2000 by Res. No. 2000-211] |
South
|
Corner of Remsen Lane west to the Village line
|
|
Orchid Street
[Added 10-7-1997 by Res. No. 97-134] |
East
|
14 feet north of Tulip Avenue
|
The Superintendent of Public Works is hereby directed and authorized to mark off individual parking meter spaces in the parking meter zones designated by the Board of Trustees as provided in § 96-28 hereof. Said parking meter spaces shall be designated by lines painted or durably marked upon the curbing of the surface of the street or area.
In the parking meter zones designated under § 96-28 hereof, the Superintendent of Public Works shall cause parking meters to be installed upon the curb or sidewalk or other place immediately adjacent to each parking meter space designated in accordance with § 96-36 hereof. The Superintendent of Public Works shall be responsible for the installation, operation, maintenance, policing and supervision of such parking meters.
Each parking meter shall be so set and constructed
as to display a signal showing legal parking upon the deposit therein
of the proper coin or coins, lawful money of the United States of
America, as indicated by the instructions on said meter, and for a
period of time conforming to this local law limiting parking in the
Incorporated Village of Floral Park, New York. The signal above referred
to shall remain in evidence until the expiration of the legal parking
period as above stated, at the expiration of which time a change of
visible signal shall indicate the expiration of the lawful period.
The Board of Trustees shall establish, by resolution, the amounts
to be deposited in each parking meter and the periods of time purchased
by such deposits and may, from time to time, by resolution, make changes
in such amounts and periods of time, as it deems necessary.
A.
Said parking meters in all parking meter zones designated under § 96-36 hereof, except those designated as commuters' municipal metered parking fields or areas and the Caroline Place metered parking area, shall be operated each day between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. except Sundays and holidays.
B.
Said parking meters in any parking meter zone designated under § 96-36 hereof, and designated as a commuters' municipal metered parking field or area, shall be operated each day between the hours of 5:00 a.m. and 11:00 p.m. Monday through Friday.
[Amended 1-7-1997 by Res. No. 97-07]
C.
Said parking meters in any parking meter zone designated under § 96-36 hereof, and located in the Caroline Place parking meter area, shall be operated each day of the week for a full 24 hours.
D.
The maximum parking time for legal continuous parking in any one parking meter space in the parking meter zones designated under § 96-36 hereof, except those designated as commuters' municipal metered parking fields or areas and the Caroline Place metered parking area, shall be limited and restricted to a period of not longer than one hour at a time, or not longer than two hours at a time, or not longer than four hours at a time, as determined by resolution of the Board of Trustees for each such parking meter zone, which regulation shall be indicated by the instructions on the meter, and nothing herein contained shall permit the purchase, from time to time, of a longer period of continuous parking in any one such parking meter space.
E.
No parking is permitted in any commuters' municipal
metered parking field or area between the hours of 3:00 a.m. and 5:00
a.m. on any day.
F.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, residents of the Incorporated
Village of Floral Park may apply for a permit to allow a specifically
designated noncommercial passenger vehicle to be parked overnight
in a parking meter space at the municipal parking field located at
Holland Avenue, adjacent to the north side of Reliance Firehouse,
at the municipal parking field located at the intersection of Magnolia
and Plainfield Avenues, and at the municipal parking field located
at the intersection of Spooner Street and Flower Avenue between the
hours of 8:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m. daily without the necessity of depositing
coins for the operation of the parking meter. Such permit shall be
issued only to a natural person who is a resident of the Incorporated
Village of Floral Park and only for a vehicle or vehicles owned by
such resident as evidenced by the registration certificate of the
vehicle or vehicles for which the permit is sought.
[Added 3-5-1996 by L.L. No. 5-1996;
amended 5-4-1999 by L.L. No. 3-1999; 3-21-2001 by 2-2001]
(1)
Such permit shall be valid for one calendar year.
The fee for such permit shall be established by resolution of the
Board of Trustees. Such fee shall be paid to the Village Clerk before
the issuance of such permit. In the event that an individual obtains
a new vehicle during the calendar year, the permit fee for such vehicle
will be prorated on a quarter-annual basis for the balance of the
calendar year in which the permit is obtained.
[Amended 9-15-2009 by L.L. No. 4-2009]
(2)
All such permits to park in a parking meter space
at the Holland Avenue, Magnolia Avenue and Spooner Street municipal
parking lots shall be issued by the Village Clerk, subject to the
approval of the Board of Trustees, in accordance with the applications
and forms approved by the Board of Trustees and made available by
the Village Clerk. All vehicles for which such permits shall be issued
shall have conspicuously displayed thereon a distinctive decal or
license plate or tag issued by the Village Clerk bearing the number
of such permit and the year for which the same shall be issued. Such
permit shall permit the vehicle to be parked overnight in a parking
meter space at the Holland Avenue, Magnolia Avenue and Spooner Street
municipal lots between the hours of 8:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m. without
the necessity of depositing coins for the operation of the parking
meter.
(3)
No such permit shall be transferable from one owner
to another or from one vehicle to another without the approval of
the Board of Trustees and the endorsement of such approval, in writing,
on such permit by the Village Clerk, evidencing the disposition of
the vehicle for which a permit was obtained and acquisition by the
same owner of a replacement vehicle to which the permit is sought
to be transferred.
(4)
Issuance of the permit described herein shall not
authorize the parking of any vehicle for which a permit has been issued
in any other location within the Village.
It shall be unlawful and a violation of the
provisions of this local law for any person:
A.
To park a vehicle in a parking meter space adjacent
to a parking meter in any parking meter zone during the hours of parking
meter operation unless the appropriate fee is immediately deposited
in such meter and, when required by the directions on said meter,
the time mechanism of such meter is set in operation in accordance
with the directions properly appearing thereon.
B.
To park a vehicle in a parking meter space adjacent
to a parking meter in any parking meter zone during the hours of parking
meter operation while such meter is displaying a signal indicating
the expiration of the time period associated with the deposit of fees.
C.
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 defined and 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.
D.
To park any vehicle across any line or marking of
a parking meter space or in such a position that the vehicle shall
not be entirely within the area designated by lines or markings of
such parking meter space.
E.
To attempt to or in fact alter, deface, injure, knock
down, tamper with, open or willfully break, destroy or impair any
parking meter or the usefulness of any parking meter installed under
the provisions of this ordinance.
F.
To deposit or attempt to deposit or cause to be deposited
in any parking meter any slug, button, device, substance or other
substitute for lawful coins of the United States of America.
G.
To park in any commuters' municipal metered parking field or area between the hours of 3:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m. on any day except as permitted in § 96-39.
[Amended 3-5-1996 by L.L. No. 5-1996]
H.
To park in any parking meter zone when the parking
meters are hooded or no parking is indicated by some other readily
identifiable means.
A.
It shall be the duty of the Police Department to enforce
the provisions of this local law.
B.
The Commissioner of Police is hereby authorized and
directed to supply police officers and/or parking meter attendants
with tag summonses for the purpose of giving notice to persons violating
any provision of this local law. Such notice may be given by delivering
such summons to the violator or by conspicuously affixing it to the
vehicle by means of which the violation occurred. In addition, whenever
any motor vehicle is found parked in violation of any regulation imposed
by this local law, the police officer and/or parking meter attendant
finding such vehicle shall take its registration number and may take
any other information displayed on the vehicle which may identify
its operator, owner or chauffeur. The police officer and/or parking
meter attendant shall deliver copies of such summons to the Village
Justice.
[Amended 9-21-2010 by L.L. No. 8-2010]
C.
Nothing in this section shall be construed to abridge
the power of a police officer to arrest any violator and take him
into custody.
It shall be the duty of the Superintendent of
Public Works to designate some member or members of the Department
of Public Works or some employee or employees of the Village to make
regular collections of the money deposited in said meters. Such member
or members of the Department of Public Works or such employee or employees
of the Village shall be required, before they enter upon the duties
of collections of such money, to execute to the Village and file with
the Village Clerk an official undertaking in such sum and with such
sureties as the Board of Trustees shall direct and approve; and the
Board of Trustees may, by resolution, determine that such undertaking
shall be executed by a surety company authorized to transact business
in this state and that the expense thereof shall be a charge upon
the Village. It shall be the duty of such person or persons so designated:
A.
In the case of the manual-type parking meters, to
remove from the parking meters the locked cartridge and empty the
same by inserting same into the tube opening of the cart or bag (where
an embedded key unlocks the cartridge and the coins pour out) and
to relock the cartridge by withdrawing the same from the cart or bag
and to put the cartridge back into the meter.
B.
It shall be the further duty of the person or persons
so designated to deliver the locked cart or bag to the Village Treasurer
to unlock the same and count the funds contained therein and deposit
such funds as required by law; or the Board of Trustees may contract
with a bank or banks in the Incorporated Village of Floral Park, New
York, or such other place as they may deem advisable to receive the
moneys collected from such parking meters by the Superintendent of
Public Works or some member or members of the Department of Public
Works, or some employee or employees of the Village designated by
him, to count, collect and account therefor to the Incorporated Village
of Floral Park, New York, after crediting itself with the agreed compensation
for such services pursuant to contract to be made with the Incorporated
Village of Floral Park, New York.
C.
The Board of Trustees is hereby empowered to contract
for the purchase and installation of said parking meters in the Incorporated
Village of Floral Park, New York, and to provide for the payment therefor
exclusively from the receipts obtained by the Village from the operation
of said parking meters, and said means of payment shall be in addition
to any other purchasing powers heretofore had by the Village under
the laws of the State of New York.
The fees collected by the Village from such
parking meters over and above such amounts as may be payable under
the lease agreement with the company from whom the meters were obtained
shall be paid to the Village and credited to its general fund.
Except in an emergency or when authorized by
a police officer, no vehicle shall stop, stand or park in the street
in front of or opposite a driveway for vehicles leading from private
or public property to a public street or road in such manner as to
obstruct said driveway or prevent free passage of vehicles into or
out of such driveway.
