For the purpose of this article, the following
terms shall have the meanings indicated:
OPERATOR
Includes every individual who shall operate a vehicle as
the owner thereof or as the agent, employee or permittee of the owner,
or is in actual physical control of a vehicle.
PARK OR PARKING
The standing of vehicle, whether occupied or not, upon a
street otherwise than temporarily for the purpose of and while actually
engaged in receiving or discharging passengers or loading or unloading
merchandise or in obedience to traffic regulations, signs or signals
or an involuntary stopping of the vehicle by reason of causes beyond
the control of the operator of the vehicle.
PARKING ZONE
Includes any restricted street or area upon which a two-hour
parking restriction is designated.
PERSON
Includes any individual, firm, copartnership, association
or corporation.
STREET
Any public street, avenue, road, alley, highway, lane, path
or other public place located in the Village of LeRoy and established
for the use of vehicles.
TWO-HOUR PARKING SPACE
Any space within a two-hour parking zone which is duly designated
for the parking of a single vehicle by lines painted or otherwise
durably marked on the curb or on the surface of the street or pavement
adjacent to the curb of the designated areas.
VEHICLE
Any device in, upon or by which any person or property is
or may be transported upon a highway, except a device which is operated
upon rails or tracks.
The Superintendent of Public Works is hereby
directed and authorized to mark off individual parking spates in the
parking zones designated and described in the preceding section of
this article and in such other zones as may hereafter be established,
such parking spaces to be designated by lines painted or durably marked
on the curbing or surface of the street. At each space so marked off,
it shall be unlawful to park any vehicle in such a way that said vehicle
shall not be entirely within the limits of the space so designated.
It shall be unlawful and a violation of the
provisions of this article for any person to cause, allow, permit
or suffer any vehicle registered in the name of or operated by such
person to be parked for more than two hours between the hours of 8:00
a.m. and 6:00 p.m. in a parking space within the two-hour parking
zone.
It shall be the duty of the Police Department
to enforce the provisions of this article.
Any person, firm and corporation who shall violate, or permit or allow anyone to violate the sections included within §§
201-54 to
201-61 of this article shall, upon conviction, be fined $5 per offense, provided that such fine is paid within 48 hours of the time of said violation. In the event that said fine is not paid within the time so specified, the fine thereof shall be $10.
Nothing in this article shall be construed as
prohibiting the Village of LeRoy from providing for bus stops, for
taxicab stands and other matters of similar nature, including the
loading or unloading of trucks, vans or other commercial vehicles.
This entire article shall be deemed and construed
to be an exercise of the police power of the Village of LeRoy in the
State of New York for the preservation and protection of public safety,
and all of its provisions shall be liberally construed with a view
to the effectuation of such purposes.