Town of Babylon, NY
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2023-12-20
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Traffic Code
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Part I: The Traffic Law
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Chapter TC-1 General Provisions
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Article I Definitions; Word Usage
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 4 Assessor, Department of
- Ch 6 Attorney, Department of
- Ch 10 Clerk, Department of
- Ch 13 Comptroller, Department of
- Ch 15 Department of Public Safety Enforcement
- Ch 18 Environmental Conservation Commission
- Ch 20 Environmental Control, Department of
- Ch 22 Escrow Account, Town Attorney
- Ch 23 Ethics, Code of
- Ch 25 Fire Districts
- Ch 27 General Services, Department of
- Ch 31 Human Services, Department of
- Ch 35 Meetings
- Ch 37 (Reserved)
- Ch 42 Ordinances, Publication of
- Ch 44 Parks, Recreation and Cultural Affairs, Department of
- Ch 47 Personnel Policies
- Ch 48 Civil Service, Department of
- Ch 49 Planning and Development, Department of
- Ch 50 Abolishment of Office of Superintendent of Highways
- Ch 51 Public Works, Department of
- Ch 53 Receiver of Taxes, Department of
- Ch 57 Sanitation Commission
- Ch 59 Streets, Procedure for Abandonment of
- Ch 60 Town Board, Office of
- Ch 61 Ward Districts
- Ch 65 Town Supervisor, Department of
- Ch 66 Administrative Adjudication, Bureau of
- Ch 67 Carlls River Botanical Garden Board
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 74 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 76 Amusement Devices
- Ch 78 Anti-Bias Task Force and Hispanic/Latino Advisory Committee
- Ch 79 Bazaars and Fairs
- Ch 81 Beaches and Recreational Areas
- Ch 82 Bidding Preferences
- Ch 84 Bingo
- Ch 85 Block Parties; Public Assembly Permits; Use of Sound Equipment
- Ch 86 Boats
- Ch 89 Building Construction
- Ch 92 Buildings, Unsafe
- Ch 93 Board of Grievances and Appeals
- Ch 94 Cabarets and Dance Halls
- Ch 97 Civil Service Examinations
- Ch 99 Coastal Erosion Hazard Areas
- Ch 101 Consumer Protection
- Ch 106 Dogs and Other Animals
- Ch 107 Domestic Partnership Registry
- Ch 108 Dredging
- Ch 112 Electrical Standards
- Ch 114 Environmental Quality Review
- Ch 117 Excavations
- Ch 118 Expeditors
- Ch 121 Firearms
- Ch 123 Fire Prevention
- Ch 125 Flood Damage Control
- Ch 128 Freshwater Wetlands
- Ch 130 Games of Chance
- Ch 133 Solid Waste Management
- Ch 136 Graffiti
- Ch 137 Historic Areas, Preservation of
- Ch 138 Housing Standards
- Ch 141 Ice Cream Vending
- Ch 143 (Reserved)
- Ch 144 Landscapers
- Ch 145 Bamboo
- Ch 146 Littering
- Ch 148 Massage Establishments
- Ch 149 Memorial and Independence Day Sales
- Ch 153 Multiple Dwellings
- Ch 156 Noise
- Ch 157 Notice and Certificates of Assessment
- Ch 158 Notification of Defects
- Ch 161 Party Houses
- Ch 162 Pawnbrokers and Secondhand Dealers
- Ch 165 Peace and Good Order
- Ch 166 Personal Property, Sale of
- Ch 167 Peddlers, Solicitors and Canvassers
- Ch 170 Plumbing
- Ch 173 Public Assembly Places
- Ch 176 Records, Public Access to
- Ch 178 Retail Establishments
- Ch 180 Taxicabs and Vehicles for Hire
- Ch 181 Sewers
- Ch 183 Shellfish
- Ch 186 Site Plan Review
- Ch 189 Stormwater Management and Erosion and Sediment Control
- Ch 190 Storm Sewers: Illicit Discharges, Activities and Connections
- Ch 191 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 195 Taxation
- Ch 198 Towing
- Ch 200 Trailer Camps
- Ch 202 (Reserved)
- Ch 204 Traffic Violations Bureau
- Ch 205 (Reserved)
- Ch 207 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 209 Vehicles, Off-Road
- Ch 210 (Reserved)
- Ch 211 Water
- Ch 213 Zoning
- Ch 215 Land Use Regulations, Adoption of
- Appendix
- Ch A217 Recreational Fees
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
- Traffic Code
- Part I: The Traffic Law
- Ch TC-1 General Provisions
- Ch TC-1 Art I Definitions; Word Usage
- § TC-1-1 Definitions of words and phrases.
- § TC-1-2 Word usage; interpretation.
- Ch TC-2 Traffic Regulations
- Ch TC-3 Parking Regulations
- Ch TC-4 Off-Street Parking Areas
- Ch TC-5 Commercial Vehicles; Weight Limits
- Ch TC-6 Removal and Storage of Vehicles
- Ch TC-7 Counterfeit Beach Pass
- Part II: The Schedule
- Sch A Traffic Control Signals
- Sch B Prohibited Turns
- Sch C U-Turns
- Sch D One-Way Streets
- Sch E Parking Area Exits and Entrances
- Sch F Lane Use Designations
- Sch G No Passing Zones
- Sch H Stop and Yield Intersections
- Sch I Exceptions to General Speed Limit
- Sch J School Speed Limits
- Sch K Parking, Standing and Stopping Restrictions
- Sch L Private Parking Fields
- Sch M Town Parking Fields
- Sch N Truck Exclusions
- Sch O Bridges and Elevated Structures
- Sch P School District Parking Fields
- Sch Q Special Truck Exclusions
- Traffic Code Disposition List
- Ch TC-DL Disposition List
A.
The words and phrases in this Code shall for the purpose of this
Code have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by Article I
of the Vehicle and Traffic Law of the State of New York.
B.
HOLIDAYS
PARKING FIELDS
PARKING METER
PARKING METER SPACE
PARKING METER ZONE
SCHOOL DAYS
SCHOOL SPEED LIMITS
The following words and phrases, which are not defined by Article
I of the Vehicle and Traffic Law of the State of New York, shall have
the meanings respectively ascribed to them in this section for the
purpose of this Code:
New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day,
Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.
Any part of land designated by the owner or owners of said
land to be used by the public for the purpose of parking vehicles.
Any mechanical device or meter, not inconsistent with this
Code, placed or erected for the regulation of parking by authority
of this Code. Each parking meter installed shall indicate by proper
legend the legal parking time established by this Town and, when operated,
shall at all times indicate the balance of legal parking time, and
at the expiration of such period shall indicate illegal or overtime
parking.
Any space within a parking meter zone adjacent to a parking
meter and which is duly designated for the parking of a single vehicle
by lines painted or otherwise durably marked upon the curb or the
surface of the street adjacent to or adjoining a parking meter.
Any street and/or any designated location set aside under
provisions of this Code for the installation of parking meters and
upon which parking meters have been installed and are in operation.
Days when school is officially open for regular sessions.
The speed limit established on any portion of a highway passing
a school building and for not more than 300 feet in either direction
from the building line of a school abutting on a highway.
A.
Official time standard. 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.
B.
Measurements. Any linear measurement specified for various regulations
contained in this Code shall be deemed to be approximate, and such
measurements, and the regulation to which they pertain, shall not
be affected or altered in any way by the widening of a street, by
the construction of curbs, gutters or sidewalks or by any other action
which might tend to obliterate the point from which such measurements
were originally made. Unless otherwise indicated, measurements shall
be made from the nearest curbline of the street referred to in the
location description or, if there is no curbline, from the nearest
pavement edge.
C.
For the purposes of this Code, all streets and highways in the Town
shall be deemed to run north-south or east-west, and streets or highways
running generally parallel to the direction indicated shall be deemed
to run in such directions.
