Parking meter/parking pay station zones are hereby designated as being those parts of streets and/or public parking lots upon which metered parking, parking pay stations, attendant parking or paid parking is now designated or may hereafter be designated by the Board of Trustees.
The Village Board of Trustees is hereby authorized to provide for the marking off of individual parking spaces in the parking meter zones, said parking spaces to be designated by lines painted or marked on the curbing or surface of the street or lot. 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.
In all parking meter zones, the Lake Placid Village Board may cause parking meters to be installed upon the curb, sidewalk or area immediately adjacent to the parking spaces/vicinity provided in this article. The Chief of Police shall be responsible for the regulation, control, operation and use of such parking meters. Each device shall be so set as to display a signal showing legal parking upon the deposit of the appropriate payment, for the period of time prescribed in this article. Each device shall be so arranged that upon the expiration of the lawful time limit, it will indicate 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.
In all parking meter zones, the Lake Placid Village Board may cause parking pay stations to be installed upon the area controlling parking provided in this article. In areas where parking is controlled by parking pay station, it shall be illegal for any vehicle to park in violation of this chapter. Each vehicle must pay for and display an unexpired parking payment receipt. The Chief of Police shall be responsible for the regulation, control, operation and use of such parking pay station. Each device shall be so set to produce a parking payment receipt upon the deposit of the appropriate payment, indicating the date, hour and minute through which the vehicle displaying such receipt may continue to legally park and, upon expiration of the parking payment receipt, the right of such vehicle to park shall cease and the operator, owner, possessor or manager thereof shall be subject to the penalties hereinafter provided.
[Amended 7-15-2024 by L.L. No. 3-3024]
Except in a period of emergency determined by an office of the Police Department, or in compliance with directions of a police officer or traffic control sign or signal, or during the period for 8:00 p.m. to 8:00 a.m. of the following day, unless established otherwise in this article, when any vehicle shall be parked alongside or next to or in a controlled area for which a parking meter or parking pay station is located, the operator of such vehicle shall, upon parking, immediately deposit or cause to be deposited in said meter or pay station such proper payment for such parking meter/pay station and as is designated by proper directions on the meter or pay station, and when required by the directions on the meter or pay station, the operator of such vehicle, after the proper payment, shall also set in operation the timing mechanism on such meter or pay station in accordance with directions properly appearing thereon, and failure to deposit such proper payment and to set the timing mechanism in operation when so required shall constitute a violation of this article. Upon the deposit of proper payment and the setting of the timing mechanism in operation, such vehicle shall be legally parked during the period of time which has been prescribed. If said vehicle shall remain parked in any such parking space beyond the parking time limit set for such vehicle, 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 violation of this article.
The Board of Trustees shall be empowered, by resolution, to set and amend the rates for parking in the parking meter zones and also to set and amend the maximum duration of time for parking by resolution.
[Amended 3-29-2021 by L.L. No. 1-2021; 7-19-2021 by L.L. No. 2-2021; 7-15-2024 by L.L. No. 3-3024]
A. 
The provisions of this article shall not apply in the following instances:
(1) 
All day on holidays;
(2) 
To firemen responding to an alarm of fire.
(3) 
To officers or official Village vehicles.
(4) 
To police officers while on duty or performing any police function, even though off duty.
(5) 
Before 8:00 a.m. or after 8:00 p.m. of any day.
(6) 
Sundays from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
B. 
Commercial trucks. If a loading zone is occupied, commercial trucks may park in parking meter spaces to load or unload merchandise without depositing coins for such period only as is required for such loading or unloading. Such parking of any truck for a period longer than that required for loading or unloading merchandise shall be deemed a violation of this article, and in no event shall said period exceed 30 minutes.
It shall be unlawful and a violation of the provisions of this article for any person to:
A. 
Cause, allow, permit any motor 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. 
Permit any motor vehicle to remain or be placed adjacent to any parking meter while said meter is displaying a signal indicating that the vehicle is parked or has already been parked beyond the period prescribed or permit any vehicle to remain or be parked in any area controlled by a pay-by-display parking meter beyond the time printed on the parking payment receipt.
C. 
Park any motor 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. 
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. 
Deposit or cause to be deposited in any parking meter any slug, device or metal substance or other substitute for lawful coins.
F. 
Park or permit the parking of any motor vehicle in any parking meter space where the meter does not register lawful parking.
A. 
It shall be the duty of the officers, acting in accordance with instructions issued by the Chief of Police, to report:
(1) 
The state license number of such vehicle.
(2) 
The make and color of such vehicle.
(3) 
That such vehicle is parked in violation of any of the provisions of this article.
(4) 
Any other facts, knowledge of which is necessary to a thorough understanding of the circumstances attending such violation.
B. 
Each such officer shall also attach to such vehicle a citation to the owner thereof that such vehicle has been parked in violation of a provision of this article, and instructing such owner if they wish to plead not guilty to report to the Village Court with regard to such violation.
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 it shall be the duty of such person or persons so designated to remove from the parking meters the locked containers therein containing the coins so deposited in said meters and to deliver such locked containers to NBT Bank personnel, who shall unlock them and count the funds contained in such containers and deposit such funds in the usual manner provided by law.
[Amended 6-4-2018 by L.L. No. 2-2018]
Any person who shall violate or refuse to comply with any of the provisions of this article shall be punished by a fine of $35. If the fine is not paid within 30 days, a late charge of $10 will be assessed per violation.