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 of the State of
New York.
B.
BOAT
CURBLINE
HOLIDAYS
OFFICIAL TIME STANDARD
RECREATIONAL VEHICLE
The following words and phrases, which are not defined
by Article 1 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 purposes of this chapter:
Any vessel or craft designed or used to transport a person,
persons or cargo on the surface of the water. The term includes sailboats,
rowboats and motor-driven boats.
[Added 5-14-1999 by L.L. No. 8-1999]
The prolongation of the lateral line of a curb or, in the
absence of a curb, the lateral boundary line of the roadway.
New Year's Day, Martin Luther King Day, Presidents' Day,
Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Veterans
Day, General Election Day, Thanksgiving Day and the 25th of December.
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.
Any portable structure which can be towed, hauled or driven
and which is primarily designed as temporary living accommodations
for recreational, camping and travel use, including but not limited
to travel trailers, truck campers, camping trailers and self-propelled
motor homes. The term also includes motor vehicles primarily designed
for use in sporting events, races or contests of any kind.
[Added 5-14-1999 by L.L. No. 8-1999]
The Village shall install and maintain traffic
control devices when and as required under the provisions of this
chapter to make effective the provisions of this chapter and may install
and maintain such additional traffic control devices as it may deem
necessary to regulate, warn or guide traffic under the Vehicle and
Traffic Law of the State of New York, 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 VI 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 Board of Trustees
in accordance with provisions of the Village Law and the Vehicle and
Traffic Law or by an officer or agency authorized by the Board of
Trustees to adopt regulations pursuant to § 1603 of the
Vehicle and Traffic Law.
No person driving any motor vehicle, other vehicle,
horse or other animal or riding upon any motorcycle or bicycle within
the Village shall disobey any direction or signal given him by any
policeman, traffic policeman or Village Inspector appointed by the
Mayor of said Village, or any state or county officer engaged in the
performance of his duty in the Village, in reference to stopping or
starting the vehicle or animal which is driven or on which he is riding,
or in reference to the rate of speed at which such vehicle or animal
is proceeding, or in reference to the course to be followed by said
vehicle or animal upon such streets, or any other direction or signal
given by any policeman or Village Inspector, whether Village, county
or state, in reference to the conduct of traffic upon any of the streets
of said Village; and no person driving any motor vehicle, other vehicle,
horse or other animal or riding upon any motorcycle or bicycle within
the Village shall disobey any direction mark, signal or stop sign
upon the highway, or given by colored lights at the intersection of
any streets in said Village, it being understood that a green light
shall be the signal to proceed and the red light shall be the signal
to stop.
The system of pavement markings duly adopted
for state highways are hereby adopted for all the roads, streets and
public places of this Village. Such markings upon the roads, streets
and public places of this Village, including public parking fields,
shall have the same meaning, force and effect as provided by law for
the same markings upon state highways.
A.
Authority. The Board of Trustees of the Village from
time to time may designate streets in which vehicles shall pass in
one direction and shall cause the direction in which vehicles may
proceed on such streets to be conspicuously marked with signs or signals
to indicate the same, and the direction in which all vehicles shall
so travel.
B.
Obedience to signs required. It shall be the duty
of all drivers of motor vehicles, wagons, motorcycles, bicycles or
other vehicles to proceed in such streets and ways designated by the
Board of Trustees of the Village as one-way streets as such signs
and signals shall direct.
A.
It shall be unlawful for any person operating or having
charge of any noncommercial motor vehicle to use for through traffic
purposes, or to park any pleasure vehicle thereon at any time whatsoever,
the roadway to the immediate north and at the rear of buildings of
the structures fronting on the north side of Central Avenue from Spruce
Street to Washington Avenue.
B.
Said roadway is hereby declared to be available for
commercial vehicles only. It shall also be unlawful for any person
in charge of any commercial vehicle to permit the same to remain parked
upon said roadway other than for the purpose of making deliveries
to or picking up from said commercial premises fronting on the north
side of Central Avenue from said Spruce Street to Washington Avenue.
[Amended 5-6-2002 by L.L. No. 5-2002; 11-10-2003 by L.L. No. 13-2003]
A.
No person shall stand, stop or park a vehicle within
15 feet of either side of a fire hydrant except when such vehicle
is attended by a licensed operator or chauffeur who is seated in the
front seat and who can immediately move such vehicle in case of emergency,
unless a different distance is indicated by official signs, markings
or parking meters.
B.
No person shall stand, stop or park a vehicle within
thirty feet upon the approach to any flashing signal, stop or yield
sign or traffic-control signal located at the side of a roadway, unless
a different distance is indicated by official signs, markings or parking
meters.
C.
No person shall stand, stop or park a vehicle within
any area which shall be marked with appropriate "No Standing Anytime,"
"No Stopping Anytime," "No Stopping Here To Corner," "No Parking Anytime"
or "Bus Stop" signs, which places were marked pursuant to a resolution
of the Board of Trustees, or at any other place or point which obstructs
wholly or in part the ingress to or egress from any driveway from
the entrance and exit of vehicles, whether officially designated by
the Village or the Police Department or whether it is a private driveway.
It shall not be necessary, in order to secure a conviction for a violation
of that part of this subsection relating to the obstruction of any
driveway, that such driveway be authorized by law or permit to be
maintained as such, but all that shall be required to be shown is
that such driveway is generally used as a means of ingress and egress
to and from the street.
D.
No person shall park or leave standing any motor vehicle
within any area which shall be marked with appropriate "Reserved Parking"
or "For Official Use Only" signs unless such vehicle shall have displayed
on its dashboard, sun visor or rear window a permit designating such
parking. Said places shall be marked pursuant to a resolution of the
Board of Trustees.
E.
No person shall stop, park or leave standing any motor
vehicle in any area designated as a place for handicapped parking
unless the vehicle displays a special vehicle identification permit
or bears a disabled person's or disabled veteran's registration entitling
such motor vehicle to park in any public or private area of the Village
designated as a place for parking for persons with disabilities. Such
permit and/or registration shall be for use exclusively in a vehicle
in which the person to whom it has been issued is being transported.
[Amended 5-6-2002 by L. L. No. 5-2002; 11-10-2003 by L. L. No. 13-2003]
No person shall park or leave standing any automobile,
wagon or other vehicle for longer than such time as may be indicated
by suitable signs, which signs shall be conspicuously displayed upon
the streets or places so designated.
No person shall park or leave standing any automobile,
wagon or other vehicle upon any street, highway or parking lot except
as indicated by appropriate directional markings thereon.
A.
Except when necessary to avoid conflict with other
traffic or when in compliance with law or the directions of a police
officer or official control device, no person shall:
(1)
Stop, stand or park a vehicle on the roadway side
of any vehicle stopped, standing or parked at the edge or curb of
a street.
(2)
Stop, stand or park a vehicle in the main travel portion
of a street.
(3)
Stop, stand or park a vehicle on a sidewalk.
(5)
Except where angle parking is authorized, every vehicle
stopped, standing, or parked wholly upon a two-way roadway shall be
so stopped, standing, or parked with the right-hand wheels of such
vehicle parallel to and within 12 inches of the right-hand curb or
edge of the roadway.
[Added 11-10-2003 by L.L. No. 12-2003]
(6)
Except where angle parking is authorized, every vehicle
stopped, standing, or parked wholly upon a one-way roadway shall be
so stopped, standing, or parked parallel to the curb or edge of the
roadway, in the direction of authorized traffic movement, with its
right-hand wheels within 12 inches of the right-hand curb or edge
of the roadway, or its left-hand wheels within 12 inches of the left-hand
curb or edge of the roadway.
[Added 11-10-2003 by L.L. No. 12-2003]
It shall be unlawful for any person to park
or leave standing at night any commercial vehicle or bus on any streets
of the Village, or to park or leave standing at any time during the
day or night on any property within any of the residential zones of
the Village any commercial vehicle or bus for more than one hour,
unless such bus or vehicle shall be placed in a garage and shall be
kept completely under cover. However, this shall not prohibit any
commercial vehicle from making deliveries of merchandise or providing
service of any nature in the usual course of business.
[Added 5-14-1999 by L.L. No. 8-1999]
A.
The storage or parking or use of a recreational vehicle,
boat or trailer by any person or persons, except as hereinafter provided,
is hereby prohibited anywhere in the Village.
B.
No more than one such recreational vehicle, boat or
trailer may be stored or parked on a lot or parcel of property in
the Village if for the personal recreational use of the occupant,
and then only as follows:
(1)
Within an enclosed building or garage; or
(2)
In the rear or side yard of a lot so long as
said recreational vehicle, boat or trailer is entirely situated at
a distance equal to or greater than the minimum yard setback requirements
for the principal building on a property and a minimum of five feet
from the principal building; or
(3)
In the rear or side yard of a lot at a distance
less than the minimum yard setback requirement, provided that the
recreational vehicle, boat or trailer is fully screened, not greater
than 15 feet in height and no closer than five feet from the adjoining
property line.
(4)
A recreational vehicle may be stored or parked
on a lot or parcel of property in the Village without regard to the
above for the sole and express purpose of loading and unloading, for
no more than a period of one hour.
C.
No stored or parked recreation vehicle, boat or trailer,
as defined herein, shall be occupied for or used for habitation of
any kind.
D.
A temporary permit for the placing and use of a trailer
on a lot may be issued by the Building Department in connection with
any construction for which a building permit has been issued. Such
permit shall be for a period of not more than six months, but may
be renewed at the discretion of the Building Inspector if work on
said construction is not completed but is progressing diligently.
It shall be unlawful for any person, operator or owner of a motor vehicle to which has been assigned or issued a commercial registration to park or permit or allow such vehicle to park or to be parked in, on or upon any parking field or any part or portion thereof owned, operated, maintained or controlled by the incorporated Village at any time during any part of the day or night, except when such vehicle is in the actual process of unloading or being loaded. At no time, however, shall any person, operator or owner park or permit or allow more than one such vehicle at a time to be parked or stand still as aforesaid for the purpose of being loaded or unloaded. Nothing herein contained is intended to or shall be in derogation or contravention of the provision of § 250-12 of this chapter.
A.
It shall be unlawful for any person to park or leave
standing any motor vehicle at any time in any area, street or portion
of street or highway marked or reserved as a "loading zone" except
a motor vehicle which legally bears and to which has been duly issued
commercial registration license plates.
B.
It shall be unlawful under this section for any person
to park or leave standing any motor vehicle in a loading zone for
a period exceeding 30 minutes.
[Amended 1-9-2006 by L.L. No. 2-2006]
No motor vehicles shall be operated, parked
or left standing upon the public streets or public parking areas of
the Village of Cedarhurst unless a current, valid certificate of inspection,
as required by Article 5 of the Vehicle and Traffic Law of the State
of New York, is displayed upon said vehicle, as determined by the
Commission of Motor Vehicles of the State of New York.
[Added 8-3-2010 by L.L. No. 5-2010]
No motor vehicle shall be operated or parked on the public highways,
streets or parking fields of the incorporated Village of Cedarhurst
unless a valid registration certificate is displayed upon the vehicle
as required by Article 14 of the Vehicle and Traffic Law of the State
of New York which is displayed upon said vehicle as determined by
the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles of the State of New York.
[Amended 11-6-2000 by L.L. No. 9-2000; 1-9-2006 by L.L. No. 2-2006]
Any person, firm, corporation, limited-liability
company or entity violating any provisions of this chapter, shall
for a first conviction, be punished by a fine not exceeding $150 or
by imprisonment not exceeding 15 days, or by both such fine and imprisonment;
for conviction of a second violation, both of which were committed
within a period of 18 months, such person shall be punished by a fine
not exceeding $200 or by imprisonment not exceeding 45 days, or by
both such fine and imprisonment; upon a conviction of third or subsequent
violation, all of which were committed within a period of eighteen
months, such person shall be punished by a fine of not more than $300
or by imprisonment for not more than 90 days, or both such fine and
imprisonment.
