The City Manager is hereby directed to implement subject procedures at the earliest possible date. (Said regulations are set out below.)
POLICY NO. 1. PARKING PERMITS
Parking permits will be issued on an annual basis (October 1 through September 30) each year to residents (see “Definitions”) of the City of Boynton Beach, for a charge of fifty dollars ($50.00) for each decal issued to a resident vehicle, upon satisfactory completion of appropriate application forms. Applicants will be required to establish proof of residency in the City of Boynton Beach (see “Definitions”) and to present their official state motor vehicle tag registration certificate for each decal purchased.
Lost or mutilated parking permits. In the event that the vehicle to which the permanent decal was issued has been sold or otherwise changed ownership and/or in the event a properly issued parking decal is mutilated and can be identified, such decal will be replaced for a charge of fifteen dollars ($15.00), provided the holder can return an identifiable portion of the mutilated parking decal to the city. In the event the holder of a lost or mutilated parking permit cannot provide an identifiable portion or part of such parking decal, the charge for a replacement decal will be the sum of fifty dollars ($50.00).
Qualified nonresidents: Qualified nonresidents may obtain beach decals that permit parking annually. The cost for such permit as set forth herein:
The permit fee for qualified nonresidents shall be two hundred dollars ($200.00) each.
City employees: All city employees, classified, nonclassified and retired, regardless of residency,shall be eligible to receive one (1) parking permit. Proof of employment shall be established through the Personnel Department of the city. Persons who terminate (not retired) their employment with the city and who are not city residents shall be required to scrape off their stickers and return remains to the issuing office.
Resident: Anyone owning real estate and/or leasing, renting or occupying real estate or living accommodations within the City of Boynton Beach for a time period of at least six (6) consecutive months each calendar year, as well as members of their immediate family residing with them; provided, however, for purposes of this section, the term “City of Boynton Beach” shall include all property within the corporate limits of the Town of Ocean Ridge. Proof of residency shall be established by some suitable means, such as utility bill, tax bill, property deed or lease agreement.
Qualified nonresident: Anyone who is not a resident but who resides in the agricultural reserve area of unincorporated Palm Beach County bounded on the south by lateral Canal No. 30, bounded on the north by Hypoluxo Road, and bounded on the west by the Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge.
POLICY NO. 2. PROCEDURE FOR ISSUANCE OF PARKING PERMITS
(1) Ensure that applicants are residents as defined in Policy No. 1.
(2) Request proof of residency. Proof established in accordance with Policy No. 1.
(3) Request separate vehicle registration for each parking permit to be issued.
(4) Residents leasing automobiles should provide contract documents establishing the lease agreement or arrangement or company car assignment.
(5) Issuing authority shall complete parking permit application by listing separate permit numbers opposite the make, model and year of each vehicle.
(6) All parking permits shall be permanently affixed upon the lower, left-hand side (driver’s side) of the front windshield of such vehicle. Decals placed on a vehicle other than the one for which it was originally issued shall be construed to be void.
(7) Parking permits issued to motorcycles, motor bikes, and motor scooters shall be displayed on the left front fork of such vehicle or other visible location in the area of the left front.
PARKING FEES FOR MOTOR VEHICLES
A daily parking fee is hereby established for all motor vehicles parking at the public beach, except those hereinafter excepted, in accordance with the following rates and charges.
Weekdays (Monday - Friday) $5.00
Weekends (Saturday & Sunday)
November 16—April 30 $10.00
(1) Vehicle having affixed thereto a parking permit issued in accordance with the rules and regulations of Policies 1 and 2.
(2) Official state, county and city vehicles entering the park in the performance of governmental functions.
(3) The vehicles of public utility companies, workmen, tradesmen, or salesmen when engaged in official park business.
(4) School buses transporting Florida school, college or university students in a group or body for a field trip for educational purposes. This exception shall not apply to vehicles transporting such groups to the park for recreational purposes.
Florida school groups, as mentioned in exception (4), must make prearrangements with the Director of Recreation and Parks, or his or her designee, by submitting a letter from the school principal certifying that the trip is a part of the school curriculum.
Parking permits will be available to all city residents as outlined in Policies 1 and 2. Vehicles not exhibiting the permit will be required to pay the parking fee in accordance with this policy.
PARKING AREAS FOR MOTOR VEHICLES
Trucks, buses and trailers shall park in the lower level spaces of the parking area at the public beach.
PENALTY FOR NONCOMPLIANCE WITH RULES AND REGULATIONS
It shall be unlawful for any person to falsify information in the process of applying for a parking permit, for any person to sell a parking permit, for any person to transfer a parking permit to a nonresident, or for any person to fail to follow the rules and regulations pertaining to the use of the parking facilities at the public beach. (Code 1958, § 19-38.1; Ord. No. 79-21, Art. I, 7-17-79; Ord. No. 80-42, § 1, 10-21-80; Ord. No. 80- 47, § 1, 12-16-80; Ord. No. 82-10, §§ 1, 2, 5-4-82; Ord. No. 82-23, § 1, 8-3-82; Ord. No. 84-30, §§ 1, 2, 8-7-84; Ord. No. 86-6, § 1, 4-15-86; Ord. No. 86-32, § 1, 9-3-86; Ord. No. 89-33, § 1, 9-26-89; Ord. No. 89-37, § 1, 11-7-89; Ord. No. 90-45, § 1, 9-18-90; Ord. No. 90-56, § 1, 12-4-90; Ord. No. 91-13, §§ 1, 2, 3-19-91; Ord. No. 93-32, § 1, 9-7-93; Ord. No. 93-34, § 1, 9-21-93; Ord. No. 00-46, § 1, 9-6- 00; Ord. No. 05-046, § 2, 8-16-05; Ord. No. 09-020, § 2, 4-21-09; Ord. No. 15-021, § 2, 9-3-15)
