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Editor's Note: An ordinance of 2-19-1980, § 1, 2, amended the Code by adding a new Art. XV, Sections 13-271 through 13-273, concerning loop detector towing zones. Inasmuch as the Code already contained an Art. XV, the provisions in Section 2 of the ordinance of 2-19-1980 have been redesignated as Art. XVI, Sections 13-291 through 13-293.
[Ord. of 2-19-1980, § 2]
(a)
It is the determination of the Common Council that the proper operation
of traffic control signals on the New York State East/West Arterial
depends upon the proper operation of inground loop detectors located
on city streets intersecting the Arterial Highway. It is hereby found
and declared that motor vehicles parked or left standing in the magnetic
field created by such detectors seriously interrupt the proper functioning
of the traffic-control devices and cause serious and hazardous traffic
conditions. It is further found and declared that ordinances providing
for no parking and the ticketing of illegally parked vehicles are
inadequate to prevent the disruption of the traffic-control devices
and that a special Article providing for the creation of tow zones
in such areas is proper and necessary under these circumstances.
(b)
This Article is hereby declared to be remedial and essential to the
public interest, and it is intended this Article be liberally construed
to effectuate the purposes as stated above.
[Ord. of 2-19-1980, § 2]
It shall be unlawful for any person to park or leave standing
a motor vehicle in an area designated as a Loop Detector Tow Zone.
Appropriate signs giving notice thereof shall be erected, and any
officer charged with the enforcement of city ordinances is hereby
authorized and empowered to remove a vehicle parked or left standing
in violation of this Article forthwith and to transport said vehicle
to a place of storage.
[Ord. of 2-19-1980, § 2]
A minimum fine of $25 shall be imposed for any violation of this Article, together with towing and storage costs as authorized by Section 13-163.
