Photo provided/ Bellaire police Chief Richard "Dick" Flanagan installs new parking meters in the village's downtown.

BELLAIRE — Get your quarters ready. Sixty new parking meters are being installed in the village of Bellaire’s business district.

Bellaire Police Chief Richard “Dick” Flanagan said, to date, he has installed about 26 meters and another 34 meters will be put in place as well.

“The old ones that are still working, they will be relocated on the side streets in town,” Flanagan said.

For the past several years many of the parking meters on Belmont and Guernsey streets have been out of order. They were so old, Flanagan said, that there were no new parts available to fix them.

The new meters take quarters and give 30 minutes of parking time for 25 cents or an hour of time for 50 cents. Overtime parking tickets are $2. If not paid, the price of the ticket continues to increase. After 90 days if a ticket is not paid, the mayor has the right to issue an arrest warrant, Flanagan said, along with a $100 fine.

The village does have a meter man checking the meters. A meter clerk also is keeping the ticket office organized, he said.

Flanagan said the meters cost between $250 and $350 apiece. The company providing them, Parking Sales and Service of Sewickley, Pennsylvania, will provide maintenance on the meters once a month.

“I’ve replaced 22-26 and only five of them worked,” Flanagan said.

Flanagan said the new meters are operated manually and do not require a battery to work.

“The parking meter operations of the police department is now in order. The meter man is writing tickets five days a week,” Flanagan said.

The meter man does not work on weekends or holidays, he added. Flanagan noted he plans to discuss with Village Council the fate of the old, broken meters.