Syracuse-Wawasee Journal, Volume 50, Number 28, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 16 May 1957 — Page 8

SYRACUSE-WAWASEE JOVRRAL

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i—Thursday 16 May 1957

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ANA, PRESCRIBING REGULATIONS RELATIVE TO THE PARKING OF VEHICLES UPON SUCH STREETS, PROVIDING FOR THE PURCHASE, LEASING, ACQUIRING, INSTALLATION, OPERATION, MAINTENANCE, SUPER VISION, REGULATION AND CONTROL OF THE USE OF PARKING METERS AND PROVIDING FOR THE PAYMENT THEREFOR: DEFINING AND PROVIDING FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF PARKING METER ZONES

UPON THE PUBLIC STREET AND FOR THE ENFORCEMENT THEREOF, AND PROVIDING FOR PENALTIES FOR THE VIOLATION THEREOF. WHEREAS, because of traffic conditions existing in certain sections of the Town of Syracuse, particularly the parking of vehicles therein, the free movement of traffic in those sections is, and has been, impeded for a long period of time, and, WHEREAS, attempts to regulate the traffic and parking in the aforesaid sections have not been successful as is desirable. NOW THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the Town Board of Trustees of the Town of Syracuse, Kosciusko County, State of Indiana, as follows: SECTION I. DEFINITIONS: Whenever in this ordinance the following terms are used, they shall have the meaning respectively ascribed to them in this section: STREET. Every way set apart for public travel, except alleyways, and foot paths. ROADWAY. That portion of a street between the regularly established curb lines. SIDEWALK. That portion of a street between the curb lines and the adjacent property lines. VEHICLE. Any device by which any person or property may be transported upon a public highway. PARKING METER. A mechanical device located upon a public street or sidewalk in or adjacent to a place regularly designed as a parking zone as hereinafter defined, which device shall record a certain number of minutes by the use of a mechanism determining the period of time for which parking privileges may be extended to the person so depositing a coin. PARKING METER ZONE. A certain designated and marked off section of the public street within the marked boundaries where the vehicle may be temporarily parked and allowed to remain for such period of time as the parking meter attached thereto may indicate. Section II: Parking meter zones are hereby created on the following streets of the Town of Syracuse: On both the North and South sides of Main Street, commencing at the West Boundary of Harrison Street where it intersects with said Main Street running thence Westerly along both sides of Main Street to the Eastern intersection with Mill Street, on the North Side of Main Street and the Eastern intersection of Frazier Avenue with Main Street. Also, on both sides of Huntington Street commencing at the Northeast Corner of Lot numbered 80 and the Northwest Corner of Lot number 81 in the Original Plat of the To w n of Syracuse, running thence Southerly along both sides of Huntington Street to the North Boundary of Pearl Street where it intersects said Huntington Street. And from time to time hereafter, as traffic conditions require on such streets and other streets or avenues, or such other locations as selected by resolution of the Town Board of Trustees of the Town of Syracuse for the location of such zones. Section 111. And in said parking meter zones the (President of the Town Board of Trustees) shall cause parking meters to be installed in such numbers and at such places as in his judgment may be necessary to the regulation, control, and inspection of the parking of vehicles therein, including the reservation of loading zones for commerical vehicles and shall cause parking meter spaces to be designated as hereinafter provided. The said President of the Town Board of Trustees shall fix the time limitations for legal parking in such zones and the hours during the day when the parking meter or meters must be used and when the time limitations shall be effective, in compliance with the provisions of this ordinance, and shall indicate the time limitations by designating the same on the parking meter or meters or by appropriate signs posted in proximity to said meter or meters in said zone. Section IV: The President of the Town Board of Trustees of said Town is hereby authorized to carry out the terms of any contracts heretofore or hereafter entered into by the Board of

Trustees for the purchase, leasing, acquiring, installation, operation, maintenance, supervision, regulation, and use of the parking meters provided for in this ordinance, whether for trial period or otherwise. The payment of such parking meters and installation to be provided for solely from the receipts, funds and revenues obtained from the operation of said parking meters without in any manner obligating the City to pay for the same from any other source.

Section V: The parking meters installed in the parking meter zones as established and provided for in Section 3 hereof, shall be placed upon the curb immediately adjacent to the individual parking places hereinafter described. Each parking meter shall be placed or set in such manner as to show or display by a signal that the parking space 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 the city 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. Section VI; The President of the Town Board of Trustees shall have markings painted or placed upon curb and/ or upon the street adjacent to each parking meter for the purpose of designating the parking space for which said meter is to be used and each vehicle parking adjacent or next to any parking meter shall park within the lines or markings so established. It shall be unlawful and a violation of this ordinance 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. Section VII: When any vehicle shall be parked in any space adjacent to which a parking meter is located in accordance with the provisions of this ordinance, the operator of said vehicle shall, upon entering the said parking space, immediately deposit or cause to be deposited a one or five cent coin of the United States, in such parking meter, and put such meter in operation, and failure to deposit such coin and put the meter in operation shall constitute a violation of this ordinance and shall subject such person to the penalty prescribed hereinafter. Section VIII: Upon placing such meter in operation as -aforesaid the parking space may be lawfully occupied by such vehicle for a period of twelve (12) consecutive minutes for each one cent coin of the United States deposited therein up to one hundred twenty (120) minutes, or for a period of sixty (60) consecutive minutes for each five cent coin of the United States deposited therein up to one hundred twenty (120) minutes and payment of the aforesaid amounts for the above periods shall be made for parking in the areas set forth hereinabove. If any such vehicle shall remain parked in any such parking space beyond the parking time limit as fixed by the coin or coins deposited in such meter for such parking space, the parking meter shall by its dial and pointer indicate such illegal parking and in that event, such vehicle shall be considered parked overtime and beyond the period of legal parking time and shall constitute a violation of this ordinance and the owner or operator thereof shall be punished as hereinafter set out. Section IX: It shall be unlawful and a violation of the provisions of this ordinance for any person to deface, injure, tamper with, open or wilfully break, destroy, or impair the usefulness of any parking meter installed under the provisions of this ordinance. Section X: It shall be unlawful and a violation of the provisions of this ordinance to deposit or cause to be deposited in any parking meter, any slug, device or metallic substitute, or any other substitute for a one cent or five cent coin of the United States. Section XI: It shall be the duty qf the police officers of the city, acting iii accordance with instructions issued by the Presi-

dent of Town Board of Trustees to report: (A) The number of each parking meter which indicates that the vehicle occupying th* parking space adjacent to such parking meter is or has been parking in violation of any of the provisions of this ordinance. (B) The state license number of such vehicle. _ • (C) The time such vehicle is parking in violation of any of the provisions of this ordinance. (D) Any other facts, or know--ledge of which is necessary to a* thorough understanding of the circumstances attending such violation. Each such police officer shall, also attach to such vehicle a* notice' to the owner or operator thereof that such vehicle has been parking in violation of a provision of this ordinance and instructing such owner or opera- 1 ! tor to report to the police of the town of Syracuse, in regard to such violation. Each such owner or operator, may, within 24 hours of the time when suchs notice was attached to such vehicle pay to the police officer as a penalty for and in full satisfaction of such violation, the sum of One Dollar ($1.00). The t failure of such owner or operator to make such payment within said 24 hours, shall render such owner or operator subject to the . penalties hereinafter provided. ’ for the violation of the provisions of this ordinance. Section XII: Any person shall violate any of the ions of this ordinance, and any person who aids, abets, or assists therein, shall, upon conviction thereof (By a Justice of Peace 4 of Competent Jurisdiction be subject to a fine of not to exceed Twenty-five Dollars ($25) for each offense or violation. Section XIII: The coins and monies required to be deposited in parking meters as provided herein are hereby levied and assessed as fees to provide for the proper regulation and con-8 trol of traffic upon the public streets, the cost of supervision and regulation of the parking of vehicles in the parking meter zones created hereby, to cover* thq. cost of the purchasing, leasing, acquiring, installation, operation, maintenance, supervision, regulation and control of the parking meters described herein?* and to provide monies for the improvement and maintenance of streets in the Town of Syracuse. Section XTV: The President of 1 the Town Board of Trustees shall designate such collector and methods as are necessary to properly collect all coins deposited in the meter boxes. collector shall only be an employee at all times duly bonded, in a sum of not less than One thousand dollars ($1,000.00) for the faithful performance of his 4 duties. All money collected by such employee shall be deposited with the clerk-treasurer of the town, who shall keep said monies in a separate and distinct fundj from the other funds in the hands of the clerk-treasurer as provided by Indiana Statute. Section XV: All penalty fees of SI.OO collected by the police'! department of the Town of Syracuse shall be turned over to the town clerk-treasurer and credited to the separate fund hereinabove provided for. < Section XVI. This ordinance shall be deemed to be in addition and supplementary to and not in conflict with nor a repeal of prior or existing ordinances of this city, but shall be an additional provision for the regulation of traffic and parking in those zones provided for herein. Section XVII: If a section, part of section, sentence, clause or phrase of this ordinance shall be held to be unconstitutional or invalid, the remaining provisions hereof shall nevertheless remain in full force and effect. Section XVIII: This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage, ap--proval, and publication, as provided by law. All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict with the provisions of this ordinance are hereby repealed. PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Board of Town Trustees, this 7 day of May 1957. J. Barton Cox Harry Nicolai Harry L. Coy Board of Trustees Attest: Ernest Buchholz Clerk-Treasurer (Seal)