Chapter 353: Parking Meters

Sections

Cross references

  • Off-street parking facilities - see Ohio R.C. 717.05
  • Registered owner prima-facie liable for unlawful parking - see TRAF. 351.03
  • False coin or slug - see GEN. OFF 545.11
  • Tampering with coin machines - see GEN. OFF 545.12

353.01   Authority to designate parking meter areas and establish metered parking zones

Council is hereby authorized to establish and cause to be marked off upon such streets, parts of streets or municipal parking lots as have been or may from time to time be designated by ordinance for the limited parking of automobiles, metered parking zones in which the allowable parking shall be as prescribed by the provisions of this chapter. In the establishment and marking off of such metered parking zones upon streets, the same may be done so as to provide parking in such metered zones either parallel with the curb or at an angle to the curb, as shall be most appropriate to the particular street location.
(Ord. 1954-326. Passed 12-13-54.)

353.02   Designation of areas and zones

Pursuant to Section 353.01, the following streets between the specified termini are hereby designated as parking meter areas and zones:

  1. (a) (Editor’s note: Former subsection (a) was repealed by Ordinance 2006- 12, passed March 13, 2006.)

  2. (b) South Main Street. West side from Washington St. south approximately 200 feet.

  3. (c) Plaza Drive. South side from Main St. to Pleasant Dr.

  4. (d) Bell Street. South side from Main St. east to the east drive to the shopping center.

  5. (e) Pleasant Drive. West side about thirty-five feet south of Bell St. to about fifty feet north of the plaza.

  6. (f) (Editor’s note: Former subsection (f) was repealed by Ordinance 2006- 12, passed March 13, 2006.)

  7. (g) South Franklin. West side from Washington St. south to Center St.

  8. (h) West Washington. South side from Franklin St. to Walnut St.

  9. (i) Walnut Street. East side from Center St. north to the Fire Department drive.

  10. (j) Center Street. Both sides from Walnut St. east to Franklin Street.

  11. (k) River Street. South side from Main St. west approximately 150 feet.

  12. (l) West Street. Both sides from River St. north to Orange St.

  13. (m) East Orange Street. North side from about 100 feet east to Main St. to approximately 250 feet east of Main St.
    (Ord. 1968-735. Passed 9-17-68.)

353.03   Regulation of parking in metered zones

  1. (a) Whenever a vehicle is parked in a metered parking zone where a parking meter has been installed, the person parking such vehicle shall either (i) register the vehicle in a Village of Chagrin Falls approved mobile parking application system and pay for the parking permitted by such meter by payment through a mobile parking application system approved and used by the Village of Chagrin Falls, where the parking meter payment may be made by a mobile payment application system when so designated, or (ii) deposit in such parking meter a coin of United States money of the denomination designated on the plates attached to such parking meter, if such meter displays the signal showing that legal parking is only permitted on such deposit. If such parking meter requires the movement of a lever or other device, as well as the deposit of a coin, to cause the meter to operate, the person so depositing the coin shall immediately so move the lever as to set the meter in operation. The coins required to deposit in parking meters shall be set forth on the parking meter. Notice to the public shall be given by appropriate signs setting forth the length of time for which parking is permitted, the hours when payment for metered parking is required within the Village and the conditions for parking either using a mobile parking payment application system or paying by depositing coins in the parking meter. The notice may be upon the parking meter stand or in the immediate vicinity. Any vehicle which remains in a metered parking zone after the prescribed time for parking has elapsed is hereby determined to be illegally parked. At each place where metered parking zones are so established as provided in Section 353.01, and are so marked off, each vehicle shall be parked entirely within a metered parking zone.
    (Ord. 2017-74. Passed 11-13-17.)

  2. (b) The provisions of this section shall not apply to vehicles parked upon the streets of the Municipality between the hours of 6:00 p. m. until 9:00 a. m. the following morning, or upon Sundays or holidays. For the purposes of this section Saturday afternoon shall not be considered a holiday.
    (Ord. 1968-735. Passed 9-17-68.)

353.04   Unlawful parking in metered zones

  1. (a) No person shall park or cause, allow or permit to be parked any vehicle owned or operated by such person in any parking space without depositing the coin designated in Section 353.03 in the slot provided in such parking meter, and, if a hand-operated parking meter is installed, without turning the lever on the parking meter as far as it will go.

  2. (b) No person shall cause, allow, permit or suffer any vehicle registered in his name to be parked over-time or beyond the lawful period of time prescribed by the provisions of this chapter as herein provided.

  3. (c) No person shall cause, allow, permit or suffer any vehicle owned or operated by such person to be parked on any line designating a metered parking zone. Any vehicle parked contrary to these provisions shall be deemed to be illegally parked. The fact that a vehicle is in a metered parking zone when the time signal on the parking meter for the same shows no parking permitted, unless a deposit of a coin is made as provided in this chapter, shall be deemed prima-facie evidence of the unlawful parking of such vehicle by its owner.
    (Ord. 1954-326. Passed 12-13-54.)

  4. (d) It shall be unlawful for the driver, or the person in charge of a vehicle, or any person during, or at the expiration of any maximum authorized period of parking, to again insert or cause to be inserted the prescribed fee in the parking meter so as to set the parking meter in operation for an addition time period beyond the original maximum authorized period.
    (Ord. 2000-67. Passed 9-25-00.)

  5. (e) It shall be unlawful for the driver, or the person in charge of a vehicle, to park a vehicle within the Central Shopping District, as designated on the Zone Map of the Municipality of Chagrin Falls, as provided for in Section 1119.03 for more than three total hours in any nine hour span anywhere in the Central Shopping District between the hours of 9AM and 6PM during the weekdays of Monday through Friday, except that the provisions of this Section shall not apply to vehicles parked on the streets of the Village on declared holidays.
    (Ord. 2019-15. Passed 3-11-19.)

353.05   Prima-facie evidence of unlawful parking

In any hearing before the Mayor or other magistrate or the Bedford Municipal Court, having jurisdiction over a charge of illegally parking a motor vehicle, testimony that a vehicle bearing a certain license plate was found unlawfully parked as prohibited by the provisions of this chapter, and further testimony that the records of the Registrar or the Deputy Registrar of Motor Vehicles for the State show that such license plate was issued to the defendant, shall be prima-facie evidence that the vehicle which was unlawfully parked was so parked by the defendant. A certified copy showing such fact from such Registrar or Deputy Registrar of the State shall be proof of such ownership.
(Ord. 2017-74. Passed 11-13-17.)

353.06   Collection of coins from meters

A member of the Police Department, as designated by the Chief of Police, shall have charge of the collection of the coins deposited in the parking meters and shall deposit the same on the day collected with the local bank depository for the Village of Chagrin Falls, as determined by Ordinance of the Village Council. A complete and accurate record shall be maintained at all times of the time and amount of each collection, and a receipt for each deposit, indicating the number of coin bags received at the local bank depository for the Village shall be provided by such officer to the Clerk of Council.
(Ord. 2017-74. Passed 11-13-17.)

353.07   Application of fund

The coins required to be deposited under the provisions of Section 353.06, or payment made by other means, including payment made by a mobile application payment system authorized by the Village is hereby levied as a regulation and inspection fee to cover the cost of inspection and regulation involved in the inspection, installation, operation, control and use of metered parking zones and parking meters mentioned herein and in checking and regulating the parking spaces where parking meters have been installed. The payments shall be made to the general fund and shall be applied as determined by Village Council.
(Ord. 2017-74. Passed 11-13-17.)

353.08   Waiver

Whoever violates any of the provisions of this chapter may execute and file with the Clerk or Deputy Clerk of the Bedford Municipal Court who is on duty at the Village Police Department, an instrument waiving the formal issuance of an affidavit and warrant, together with the reading of such affidavit and the right to be present personally at the trial of such action, and further waiving the right of appeal in error, and authorizing a plea of guilty to be entered and the defendant submitting to the mercy of the Court, and, upon depositing with the Clerk or Deputy Clerk the sum of twenty dollars ($20.00) within thirty (30) days of the date of the citation, or if not deposited within thirty (30) days of the citation, by depositing with the Clerk or Deputy Clerk the sum of forty dollars ($40.00) within thirty-one (31) to sixty (60) days from the date of the citation, and if not deposited within sixty (60) days of the date of citation, deposit with the Clerk or Deputy Clerk of the Bedford Municipal Court the sum of sixty dollars ($60.00), and the Police Department shall notify the Bureau of Motor Vehicles to place a registration block upon the vehicle cited until the fine is deposited if not deposited within sixty (60) days of the citation date, and in which event the violator shall pay the cost, if any, to remove the registration block when the fine is deposited, may be fined such amounts by the Court.
(Ord. 2017-05. Passed 2-13-17.)

353.99   Penalty

(Editor’s note: See Section 303.99 for General Code Penalty if no specific penalty is provided.)