[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Board of the Town of Saugerties
by L.L. No. 1-1984 (Ch. 61 of the 1975 Municipal Code). Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Vehicles and traffic — See Ch. 232.
This chapter shall be known as and may be cited as the "Town
of Saugerties Fire Lane Law."
The purpose of this chapter is to regulate the stopping, standing
or parking of any vehicle at any time in any area hereinafter established
by the Town Board of the Town of Saugerties or its designee as a fire
lane in order to prevent the obstruction or interference with the
ingress and egress of emergency vehicles for the protection of persons
and property.
As used in this chapter, unless the context or subject matter
otherwise requires, the following words shall have the following definitions:
Every ambulance, police vehicle, fire vehicle, civil defense
emergency vehicle and ordnance disposal vehicle of the armed forces
of the United States.
Any vehicle engaged in the delivery and/or loading of merchandise,
supplies or other material, or the rendering of services to stores
or business establishments.
The operation or parking of an authorized emergency vehicle,
when such vehicle is engaged in transporting a sick or injured person,
pursuing an actual or suspected violator of the law, or responding
to or working or assisting at the scene of an accident, authorized
emergency training exercise, disaster, police call, alarm of fire
or other emergency. Emergency operation shall not include returning
from such service.
Any zone or area established as such pursuant to this chapter.
The standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise
than temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in
loading or unloading merchandise or passengers.
A person who resides in the Town of Saugerties or pays real
property taxes to the Town of Saugerties.
The stopping of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise
than temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in
receiving or discharging passengers.
When prohibited, means any halting, even momentarily, of
a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except when necessary to avoid
conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the directions of
a police officer or traffic-control sign or signal.
The Town of Saugerties situated in Ulster County in the State
of New York.
Every device in, upon, or by which any person or property
is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway except devices moved
by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks.
This chapter applies only to fire lanes established by the Town
Board or its designee pursuant to this chapter or any amendment thereto.
The stopping, standing or parking of any vehicle in any area
established by the Town Board of the Town of Saugerties or its designee
and marked "Fire Lane" within the geographical limits of the Town
of Saugerties is hereby prohibited unless herein and hereafter expressly
permitted.
The prohibitions contained in § 122-5 hereof shall not apply to:
A.
Vehicles parked at loading docks or service entrances to stores or
business establishments while said commercial vehicles are actively
engaged in the delivery and/or loading of merchandise, supplies or
other material, or the rendering of services to such stores or business
establishments.
B.
Authorized emergency vehicles engaged in emergency operation within
the particular location of the fire lane.
C.
All public transit buses or any other services to persons or property
within the particular location of the fire lane.
A.
The Town Board or its designee shall designate any areas at, on or
near any interior street, roadway, driveway or parking area in which
any obstruction due to the parking or placing therein of any vehicle
or any other physical object will cause interference with the ingress
and egress of fire-fighting equipment or authorized emergency vehicles
or which will create a condition dangerous to life or property in
the event of fire.
B.
The designated areas shall thereupon be marked with standard signs
and/or such other markings and signs which conform to accepted sign
standards as set forth in the New York State Manual of Uniform Traffic
Control Devices and which are deemed necessary and proper by the Town
Board or its designee.
C.
Signs and markings shall be installed by and at the expense of the
owner of the property within 120 calendar days after receipt of official
written notice by the Town Board or its designee designating and depicting
areas and locations of such signs and markings.
D.
In the event that any owner refuses or fails to install any and all
required signs and markings within 120 calendar days of receiving
said official notice, the Town shall promptly perform the required
work, and the Town Board or its designee may provide for the assessment
of all costs and expenses so incurred by the Town in connection with
any such action taken to become a lien against the land on which such
signs and markings are located.
A.
Any person violating the provisions of § 122-5 of this chapter shall be guilty of a violation and shall, upon conviction thereof, be subject to a fine not exceeding $50 or imprisonment not exceeding 15 days, or both.
B.
Any person violating the provisions of § 122-7B and D shall be guilty of a violation and, upon conviction thereof, shall be subject to a civil penalty not to exceed $250 to be recovered in an action or proceeding in a court of competent jurisdiction. For each day in which a violation continues, it shall be considered a separate offense.
C.
The Town Attorney may maintain an action or proceeding in a court
of competent jurisdiction to compel compliance with any provision
of this chapter or any rule or regulation promulgated pursuant thereto.
A.
The enforcement of this chapter and rules and regulations promulgated
pursuant thereto will be by the Police of the Town, by the Fire Inspector
of the Town and by such special persons as may be from time to time
authorized by the Town Board of the Town of Saugerties.
B.
Any vehicle stopped, standing or parked in a fire lane may be removed
therefrom and stored at the direction of the Town of Saugerties Police
and/or the Fire Inspector or the Town's designee. The owner or operator
of such vehicle shall be liable to the Town of Saugerties or its designee
for the payment of reasonable charges for such removal and storage
of any such vehicle.[1]
For purposes of this chapter, the "designee of the Town Board"
shall be the chief of the fire department whose company is primarily
responsible for the immediate vicinity where the violation occurs.
