The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1960-08-04
ORDINANCE NO. 225

VI NCiiSleS upon Sucn SJTeeCS, pTONlQ-
ing for the use of parking meters;
defining and establishing parking met
er zones: the regulation. control and
inspection of parking meters and pro-
Vidlng that the time of parking ve-
hicles on streets shall be measured
by parking meters; providing for en-
forcement hereof and for penalties
for violation and repeating conflicting
ordinances.
WHEREAS, because of congested
traffic conditions that now exist and
have existed for long period of
of Caldwell due to the numerous mo-
tor vehicles using the said streets and
because of the custom and habit of
the operators of said vehicles of park
ing the same for long period of
time in close proximity to other mo-
tor vehicles on the most congested
parts of the streets in the business
section of the said municipality; and
congeSted parts of the streets in the
business section of the said municipal
WHEREAS. the said condition re-
suting from the use of said streets
and the manner of parking thereon
lmpedes traffic and constitutes dam
ger to life, limb and the property of
motorists, pedestrians, and other per-
sons using the streets: and
WHEREAS, the Village Council of
the Village of Caldwell has authority,
under the General Code of the State
OF Ohio. to make all needful police
regulations necessary for the preSer-
walton of good order and the peace
of the said municipality and by its
inherent police powers to adopt all
ordinances regulating the public use
OF streets and to promote the welfare
and safety of it's citizens and others
using the same, it is the opinion of
the Village Council of the Village of
Caldwell that the conditions above
described may best be remedied by
providing for the use of mechanical
! parking time indicators, commonly
designation of individual parking
spaces on said streets, by restricting
parking in said areas to reasonable
intervals of time and by compelling
the operators of motor vehicles who
enjoy the use of such parking spaces
SO designated to pay for the privilege
of so doing the amount hereinafter
stated by the insertion of a coin or
coins in the said parking meters and
by putting the said meter in operation
BE IT ORDAINED by the Council
of the Village of Caldwell, State of
Ohio
SECTION /: AS used in this ordin-
ance the following words shall be de-
fined as follows:
a. The word vehicle" shall mean
person or property is or may be
tranSportated upon a street, except
device which is operated upon rails
or tracks.
(B) The word "street" shall mean
any public street. avenue, alley, road,
boulevard. highway or other public
place located in the Village of Cald-
WELL Ohio, and established for the
use of vehicles.
(C) The word "person" shall mean
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partnership, or corporation.
(D) The word operator" shall mean
and include every individual who shall
operate a vehicle as the owner thereof
or as the agent, employee or permittee
of the owner.
(E) Parking" The standing of a
vehicle upon a street whether is such
vehicle occupied or not and whether
such vehicle be accompanied or not by
an operator for period of time in
excess of two minutes.
(F) Mechanical Parking Time In
dicator" or Parking Meters" A de-
vice or devices which shall indicate
thereon the length of time during
which a vehicle may be parked in a
particular place which shall have as a
for receiving and storing coins of the
United States money, a slot or place
in which said coin may be deposited;
a timing mechanism to indicate the
passage Oh tfle interval OF Ilflle during
which parking is permissible and which
shall also display an appropriate sig.
nal when the aforesaid interval OF
! time shall be elapsed: also brief in
structions as to their operation.
SECTION 2: Congested Area. For
'cogested traffic area" is hereby. de-
clared to be on North Street from
East Street to Lewis Street; Cumber-
land Street from Bridge Street tc
Belford Street; Main Street from East
Street to Lewis Street; West Street
from Bridge Street to Belford Street;
Spruce Street from East Street to
Lewis Street; East Street from Bridge
Street to Spruce Street; and Bridge
Street from West Street to East Street
because of the flow of traffic on the
streets or portions of the streets with
in such area that parking therein shall
be subject to the provisions of this
ordinance.
SECTION 3: Parking meters shall
be installed in each parking meter
zone and shall be erected upon the
curb or street Immediately adjacent
to the individual parking space here
after described and each parking meter
, SO as to show by a signal that the
space adjacent thereto is. or is not
legally in use Each parking meter
installed shall indicate by proper
legend the legal parking time per-
n1itted by the insertion of any coir
or coins and when operated shall in
dicate by proper signal the duration
of the period of legal parking during
the immediate period of operation
and on the expiration of such period
shall indicate illegal or over-parking
SECTION q: There shall be lines OF
appropriate markings painted upon
the curb or street adjacent to each
parking meter outlining and desig-
mating the parking meter zones OF
space for which said meter is to be
to any parking meter shall be parked
within the said lines or markings
It shall be unlawful for any person
to park any vehicle across or without
any such line or marking and to park
vehicle in such position that it shall
not be entirely within the space des-
ignated by such lines or marks.
SECTION S: The Mayor is hereby
authorized to provide for the pur-
chase. acquiring. installation, opera
tions. maintenance. supervision. reg
ulation and use of the parking meters
provided for in this ordinance, and to
maintain said meters in good working
condition, and the Mayor is hereby
vested with power and authority tc
enter into a contract for not more
an approval of the terms and con.
ciitions thereof by the Council of the
Village of Caldwell. for the purchase
and installation of parking meters
the payment for such meters to be
provided for solely from the receipts
operation of said parking meters with
out in any manner obligating the Viii
lage of Caldwell to pay for the same
from any other source:
in Individual Parking Spaces. When
vehicle shall be parked in an in