METERED AND PAID PARKING

§ 72.50 DEFINITIONS.

   For purposes of this subchapter, the following definition(s) shall apply:

   "PAID PARKING TECHNOLOGY." Any meter, kiosk, or application that requires a parking user to pay a fee to park a vehicle in any spot marked for payment.

(Ord. 67-09-21, passed 9-28-21)

§ 72.51 AUTHORITY AND POWERS OF BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS & SAFETY.

   The Board of Public Works & Safety is hereby authorized and empowered:

   (A)   To enter into any contract for administration of parking or for the rental, purchase, installation, regulation, use, operation, maintenance, repair, servicing, and supplying of paid parking technology; to provide payment therefor exclusively to the Parking Meter Fund; and to do any and all things or acts necessary and appropriate to carry out and place in effect the purposes and intent of this division, including the determination and establishment of the specifications to be required in the administration, purchase, lease, or other acquisition of parking meters or other paid parking technology.

   (B)   To locate, determine, and establish paid parking zones and paid parking spaces within such zones upon the advice of the City Engineer.

   (C)   Such paid parking spaces shall be designated and marked out or caused to be marked out by lines or marks painted or durably marked on the curbing or surface of the street about or alongside of each parking space.

   (D)   To determine and establish the size and measurement of paid parking spaces.

   (E)   To install and place paid parking technology upon the curb, sidewalk, or space adjacent to the paid parking spaces and such parking technology showing the time period of lawful parking upon the deposit of the appropriate amount of money therein as established in Chapter 78, Schedule XIV, as from time to time amended by resolution of the Board of Public Works & Safety.

   (F)   (1)   To employ or contract with individual persons to carry out the enforcement of the parking limitations in the paid parking zones, to perform the duty of collecting the money deposited in the paid parking technology, and to deliver such to the City Controller who shall count and deposit the same in the Noblesville Parking Meter Fund.

      (2)   The Board of Public Works & Safety shall appoint such individual person as special police, whereupon such individual person shall have the power and authority to prepare, sign, and deliver or post notices of violation of any parking limitations in any paid parking zone or paid parking space in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.

      (3)   Every such person shall furnish a bond in the penal sum of $5,000 conditioned upon his or her faithful performance of his or her duties hereunder, which bond shall run in favor of the city.

(Ord. 67-09-21, passed 9-28-21)

§ 72.52 DUTY OF DRIVER TO PAY FOR PARKING.

   (A)   When any vehicle shall be parked in any space with paid parking, the driver of such vehicle shall immediately deposit or cause to be deposited in the nearby paid parking meter technology or via the approved online parking application such amount as is required for such parking space and time period as designated by direction thereon.

   (B)   Upon the deposit of such money, such paid parking space may be lawfully occupied by such vehicle during the period of time prescribed therefor.

(Ord. 67-09-21, passed 9-28-21)

§ 72.53 POLICE DEPARTMENT AND PARKING CONTROL OFFICERS TO ENFORCE PROVISIONS.

   It shall be the duty of the officers of the Noblesville Police Department and parking control officers, as appointed by the Board of Public Safety, to enforce the provisions of this subchapter.

(Ord. 67-09-21, passed 9-28-21)

§ 72.54 PARKING METER FUND.

   (A)   Pursuant to IC 36-9-12-7, the Noblesville Parking Meter Fund is hereby created. All fees collected from paid parking technology shall be deposited with the municipal fiscal officer. The fees shall be deposited to the credit of the municipality in a special fund called the "Noblesville Parking Meter Fund." Disbursements from the Noblesville Parking Meter Fund may be made only on orders of the Board of Public Works & Safety for the purposes listed in division(B).

   (B)   Disbursements from the Noblesville Parking Meter Fund may be made only to pay:

      (1)   The purchase price, rental fees, and cost of installation of paid parking technology for paid parking spaces;

      (2)   The cost of maintenance, operation, and repair of paid parking technology;

      (3)   Incidental costs and expenses in the operation of paid parking technology, including the cost of clerks and bookkeeping;

      (4)   The cost of traffic signal devices used in the municipality;

      (5)   The cost of repairing and maintaining any of the public ways, curbs, and sidewalks where paid parking technology is in use, and all public ways connected with it in the municipality;

      (6)   The cost of acquiring, by lease or purchase, suitable land for off-street parking facilities to be operated or leased by the municipality;

      (7)   The principal and interest on bonds issued to acquire parking facilities and devices;

      (8)   The cost of improving and maintaining land for parking purposes and purchasing, installing, and maintaining paid parking technology on that land;

      (9)   The cost of providing approved school crossing protective facilities, including the costs of purchase, maintenance, operation, repair, and all other incidental costs; and

      (10)   The cost of maintenance and operation of a municipally-owned park where paid parking technology is located.

   (C)   Money deposited in the Noblesville Parking Meter Fund may be expended only upon a specific appropriation by the Common Council in the same manner that it appropriates other public money. The Board of Public Works & Safety shall prepare an itemized estimate of the money necessary for the operation of paid parking meter technology for the ensuing year at the same time of making and filing budget estimates for other departments of the municipality.

(Ord. 67-09-21, passed 9-28-21)