The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-05
City to Get Mark Time Meters
Congestion Of Traffic Forces Use Of Metered Parking Zones
New City Ordinance Designates Areas, Length of
 ParIing-NO Free Time Allowed Under Law
Be It Hereby Resolved:

 terbury, that the parking of vehicle: on certain streets and highways oi the City, particularly in the centra area, for long periods of time, an- at varying distances from and an' gles to the curb, causes congestion of traffic and constitutes 8 menace and danger to the public;
 AND FURTHER, that experience has shown that the enforcement ot parking regulations previously in eff. i feet has been difficult and that therefore, such regulations have failed to accomplish the purpose fol which they were adopted, and have failed to relieve congestion and tc give to all of the public equal op- portunity to use the public streets and highways in the City;
 AND FURTHER, after a long study and investigation of traffic conditions in Waterbury as we'll as in many other cities which have installed parking meters to control and regulate parking, it is the opin- ion of this Board that public nec- essity and convenience require the installation of parking meters in Waterbury in certain areas for the purpose of regulating and control ling parking, hastening the arrival and departure of parked vehicles, and relieving traffic and parking congestion, and therefore.
 BE TT HEREBY FURTHER RE- SOLVED. that the following regula- tions concerning parking and the use of parking meters in certain areas of the City of Waterbury be and hereby are adopted, established and promulgated by this Board as traffic authority of the City of Wa terbury.
 Regulations Concerning Parking
 And Parking Meters
 Section 1. For the purpose of these regulations, the following definitions shall be used.
 (a) The word vehicle" as used herein, shall mean any device in, upon, or by which any person or property is or may be transported upon a public highway.
 tb) The word parking" shall mean the standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, upon a highway, otherwise than temporarily for the purpose of, and while actu- ally engaged in, receiving or dis charging passengers or loading or unloading merchandise or in obe- dience to traffic regulations or traf- fic signs or signals.
 Co The word operator" shall mean the person operating or in control of vehicle on a public highway.
 (d) The words parking meter as used herein shall mean a mech. anical device for measuring time limits for parking vehicles, which device consists of a standard upor which a case is set containing 6 timing mechanism and signal indi. eating legal parking and which will indicate clearly the time to elapse until the period expires during which parking is permitted in the parking meter space which the parking meter controls. The signal shall also indicate when the time for legal parking has expired in that space.
 (e) The words parking meter spaces" as used herein shall mean the space beside which is located d parking meter within which space a vehicle may be properly parked.
 Section 2. These streets and parts of streets as set forth in Sec tion 4 of these regulations are here by established as parking meter zones. Within such zones no vehicle shall be parked except in a parking meter space in the manner required by these regulations, and no. vehicle shall be parked in a parking meter space for longer period of time than the time limited by these regu- lations and by the particular park ing meter.
 Section 3. When any vehicle shall be parked in any parking space adjacent to which a parking meter is located, the operator O. such vehicle shall park it within the lines or marks established, except ing such vehicles whose length width or load overlap the said lines or marks, and upon entering saic parking meter space, he shall i'm mediately deposit or cause to be deposited in said parking meter such proper coin or coins of the United States as may be required for Suct parking meter and as may be desig- mated by proper direction on the meter, and the operator of saic vehicle, after the deposit of the proper coin or coins shall also com pletely turn or cause to be turned the crank handle on said parking meter for the purpose of starting the timing mechanism, and failur; to deposit such proper coin or coins and to turn the crank handle Shal constitute violation of these regu. lations. Upon the deposit of sucf proper coin or coins, and placing said meter in operation, the parking meter space may be lawfully occu. pied by such vehicle during the per. iod of parking time which has beer prescribed for the part of the stree AA hAAASAl odA0 JdA hA1lS AlCIC1 opdCS is located. If such vehicle shall re. main parked in any such parkins meter space beyond the parking tirnt limit fixed for such parking metel space, such parking shall be a vio' lation of these regulations.
 Section 4. The parking meter zones and the time limited for park ing within parking meter space! shall be as follows
 WEST MAIN STREET - South Side
 Exchange Place to LeavenwOrth
 Street-l5 minutes.
 Leavenworth Street to Church
 Street, hour, 30 minutes
 and IS minutes as indicated
 on the particular parking
 meter.
 Church Street to State Street.
 ? hours.
 State Street to Meadow Street.
 90 minutes.
 MeadOWn Street to Crane Street