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Ordinance amending and supplementing the Pittsburgh Code at Title Five: Traffic, Article VII: Parking, Chapter 545: Off-Street Parking by amending section 545.05 Penalty (d) Dynamic Hours.
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The Council of the City of Pittsburgh hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1.
CHAPTER 545: - OFF-STREET PARKING
§ 545.01 - DEPOSIT IN METER FOR SPACE USE.
Every owner of a vehicle which is parked in any off-street parking facility shall pay the parking rate as may be fixed by the Parking Authority for the length of time the vehicle is parked. The parking rate shall be paid in advance by depositing, in the parking meter provided for the individual parking space, United States currency or approved tokens or any equivalent thereto in the denominations indicated on the meter.
(Ord. 9-1988, eff. 6-24-88; Am. Ord. 42-1997, eff. 12-31-97)
§ 545.02 - OVERTIME PARKING.
No operator of a vehicle shall park, and no owner of a vehicle shall allow the vehicle to park in an off-street parking facility beyond the period of time established by notice on the parking meter for the individual parking space occupied by the vehicle, nor beyond the period of time for which the parking rate posted on the meter has been paid by inserting United States currency or any equivalent thereto in such meter as required by § 545.01.
(Ord. 9-1988, eff. 6-24-88; Am. Ord. 42-1997, eff. 12-31-97)
§ 545.03 - VIOLATIONS.
No operator of a vehicle shall park, and no owner of a vehicle shall allow such vehicle to be parked in any off-street parking facility except in compliance with the provisions of this Chapter. No operator of a vehicle shall park, and no owner of a vehicle shall allow the vehicle to be parked across or over any markings or lines designating any parking space. All vehicles shall be parked head-in unless otherwise posted. No operator of a vehicle shall be parked, and no owner of a vehicle shall allow the vehicle to be parked in a space designated "handicapped" unless it has registration plates designating the vehicle as one (1) operated by a handicapped person. Each additional two (2) hours during which the vehicle remains parked in violation of this Chapter shall be deemed a separate violation.
(Ord. 9-1988, eff. 6-24-88)
§ 545.04 - REGISTERED OWNER RESPONSIBLE FOR UNLAWFUL PARKING.
Every person in whose name a vehicle is registered shall be responsible for any violation of this Chapter caused by the parking of the vehicle in violation hereof. It shall be no defense that the vehicle was parked illegally by another, unless proof is presented that such vehicle had been stolen and had not been returned to the registered owner by the date of the violation.
(Ord. 9-1988, eff. 6-24-88)
§ 545.05 - PENALTY.
(a) Whoever violates or fails to comply with any provisions of this Chapter shall be fined twenty-five dollars ($25.00) and costs equivalent to the costs for summary offenses established by the governing authority as provided in the Judicial and Judiciary Code (see 42 P.S. Sec. 1725.1). Whoever violates or fails to comply with any provision of this Chapter within the Central Business District and Oakland areas shall be fined thirty dollars ($30.00) and costs equivalent to the costs for summary offenses established by the governing authority as provided in the Judicial and Judiciary Code.
(b) All fines and forfeitures collected for conviction, from any person charged with a violation of this Chapter shall be paid into the City Treasury.
(c) Dynamic pricing is defined as the adjustment, from time to time, of on-street parking meter rates by the Director of Finance of the City of Pittsburgh in order to more efficiently balance parking supply and demand.
(d) Dynamic hours is defined as the adjustment, from time to time, of on-street and off street parking meter hours and days by the Director of Finance of the City of Pittsburgh in order to more efficiently balance parking supply and demand. Under a dynamic hours designation, no parking meter zone shall have enforcement prior to 8:00 a.m. or later than 10:00 p.m. on between 2:00 a.m. and 8:00 a.m. any day of the week and no dynamic hours designated meter parking zone shall be enforced on Sundays between 2:00 a.m. and 11:59 p.m.
(e) The Director of the Pittsburgh Parking Authority is hereby authorized to cause parking meters to be installed and meter spaces to be designated in parking meter zones in accordance with the parking meter zones map attached to the ordinance [from which this section derived] and with the dynamic pricing and dynamic hours established from time to time by the Director of Finance of the City of Pittsburgh.
(f) Parking meter zones shall be in effect only between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. Monday through Saturday unless the zone is designated as "dynamic hours", in which case the hours shall be set in accordance with the dynamic pricing and hours model issued from time to time by the Director of Finance of the City of Pittsburgh.
(g) The maximum continuous legal time a vehicle may be parked in the same spot shall not be less than two (2) hours in a parking zone and shall be set by the Director of Finance of the City of Pittsburgh.
(h) Dynamic hours of parking meter enforcement extended after 6:00 p.m. in the South Side parking meter zone shall only take effect after a comprehensive parking management plan has been created in accord with the City of Pittsburgh's Responsible Hospitality Sociable City Plan best practices for this neighborhood, as determined by the Director of Finance and the Councilperson who represents the South Side parking meter zone at the time of adoption of the plan.
(Ord. No. 16-2010, § 3, eff. 6-8-10; Ord. No. 34-2014, § 4, eff. 12-22-14)