It is the aim of the Town Board of the Town
of Haverstraw to promote the public health, welfare and safety of
its residents by:
A.
Regulating the use and operation of motor vehicles
upon the streets, highways and public places accessory to or connected
with industrial, commercial, professional, educational and recreational
facilities and other services or facilities accessible to the public
in the unincorporated portions of the Town.
B.
Designating fire lanes and/or fire zones in shopping
centers and on private roadways and streets of apartment house complexes.
C.
Regulating the use and operation of motor vehicles
in shopping centers and/or private roadways and streets of apartment
house complexes.
D.
Disposing of unattended and abandoned motor vehicles
in fire lanes or other public places or zones duly marked restricted
by the Police Department or on any other public road or public area
similarly restricted during periods of public emergency by a Town
of Haverstraw agency in the interest of safety or during the winter
season where the same impedes or interferes with snow removal or safe
motor vehicle traffic.
E.
Exercising the powers granted to the Town Board pursuant
to the Vehicle and Traffic Law of the State of New York (hereinafter
referred to as the "Vehicle and Traffic Law").
F.
Providing for such additional reasonable ordinances,
orders, rules and regulations with respect to traffic as are not inconsistent
with the various other laws in this state.
A.
The words and phrases used in this chapter shall,
for the purposes of this chapter, have the meanings respectively ascribed
to them by Article 1 of the Vehicle and Traffic Law.
B.
CURBLINE
FIRE ZONE AND FIRE LANE
HOLIDAYS
OFFICIAL TIME STANDARD
PERSON
PRIVATE ROADWAYS OR STREETS IN APARTMENT HOUSE COMPLEXES
The following words and phrases have meaning as follows:
The prolongation of the lateral line of a curb or, in the
absence of a curb, the lateral boundary line of the roadway.
An unobstructed passageway marked or designated on public
or private property accessible to the public to permit free ingress
and egress of fire, police and other emergency vehicles and equipment
from a public highway.
New Year's Day, Lincoln's Birthday, Washington's Birthday,
Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Veterans
Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.
Whenever certain hours are named herein or on traffic control
devices, they shall mean the time standard which is in current use
in this state.
Every natural person, firm, copartnership, association or
corporation and any other form of organization whatsoever.
Streets, roadways and driveways designed for or in use as
vehicular and/or pedestrian use in multiple-dwelling complexes, including
but not limited to garden apartments and condominiums.
C.
All words, terms and phrases used herein, not specifically
defined in either the Vehicle and Traffic Law or herein, shall have
their usual meaning in the English language.
The Town of Haverstraw Highway Department and/or
the Police Department of the Town of Haverstraw shall install and
maintain traffic control devices, when, as and where required by direction
of the Town Board of the Town of Haverstraw, under the provisions
of this chapter to make effective the provisions of this chapter and
may install and maintain such additional traffic control devices,
by direction of the Town Board of the Town of Haverstraw, as the Town
Board may deem necessary to regulate, warn or guide traffic under
the Vehicle and Traffic Law, all subject to the provisions of §§ 1682
and 1684 of that law.
A.
For the purpose of maintaining an accurate record of all regulations adopted under the provisions of this chapter, there is hereby established a system of schedules, appearing as Article VII of this chapter, in which shall be entered all regulations after adoption. Such schedules shall be deemed a part of the section to which they refer. All regulations shall be adopted with reference to the appropriate schedule as indicated in the various sections of this chapter.
B.
Regulations shall be adopted by the Town Board in
accordance with provisions of the Town Law and the Vehicle and Traffic
Law, or by an officer or agency authorized by the Town Board to adopt
regulations pursuant to § 1603 of the Vehicle and Traffic
Law.
