State v. Hart

The opinion of the court was delivered by

DREIER, J.A.D.

Defendant has appealed from a Law Division conviction for a parking violation for which the judge imposed a $10 fine and $5 costs. The facts are simple and raise a single question, the interpretation of the term “12 p.m.”

Defendant had parked in a space controlled by a parking meter which displayed a legend showing the hours of the meter’s operation to be from 8 a.m. until 12 p.m. The underlying municipal ordinance regulated parking from “8:00 a.m. to 12:00 midnight,” but the sign which was the only notice of the effective hours of metered…