[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village
of Greenwood Lake 9-3-1991 by L.L. No. 2-1991. Amendments noted where
applicable.]
This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Village
of Greenwood Lake 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 Board of Trustees of the Village of Greenwood Lake or its designee
as a fire lane in order to prevent obstruction of or interference
with the ingress and egress of emergency vehicles for the protection
of persons and property pursuant to § 1640-a of the Vehicle
and Traffic Law of the State of New York and Fire Code Section 503
of the New York State Uniform Fire Prevention and Building Code governing
Fire Department and emergency service access.
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
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 or 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 Village of Greenwood lake or
pays real property taxes to the Village of Greenwood Lake.
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, 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.
Every device in which any person or property may be transported
or drawn upon a highway, except devices moved by human power or used
exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks.
The Village of Greenwood Lake, situated in Orange County
in the State of New York.
This chapter applies only to the fire lanes established by the
Board of Trustees of the Village of Greenwood Lake 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 Board of Trustees of the Village of Greenwood Lake
or its designee and marked "fire lane" within the geographical limits
of the Village of Greenwood Lake is hereby prohibited, unless herein
and hereafter expressly permitted.
The prohibition contained in § 55-5 hereof shall not apply to:
A.
Commercial 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 Board of Trustees of the Village of Greenwood Lake or its designee
may designate any areas at 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 physical object will cause interference
with the ingress and egress of fire-fighting equipment or authorized
emergency vehicles or which may create a condition dangerous to life
or property in the event of a fire.
B.
The designated areas shall thereupon be marked with the 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, which are deemed necessary and proper by
the Board of Trustees of the Village of Greenwood Lake or its designee.
A.
Any person, persons, firm, association, partnership or corporation violating the provisions of § 55-5 of this chapter shall be guilty of a traffic infraction and shall, upon conviction thereof, be subject to a fine not exceeding $250 or imprisonment not exceeding 15 days, or both.
B.
Any conviction for the violation of § 55-5 of this chapter shall additionally subject such violator to such penalties as are provided by § 401, Subdivision 5a, of the Vehicle and Traffic Law of the State of New York,[1] and such further penalties as may be provided by the Vehicle
and Traffic Law of the State of New York.
[1]
Editor's Note: Reference could not be verified.
C.
For each day in which the violation of this chapter remains, it shall
be considered a separate offense.
A.
The enforcement of this chapter and rules and regulations promulgated
pursuant thereto will be by the Village of Greenwood Lake Police Department
and by such special persons as may be from time to time authorized
by the Board of Trustees of the Village of Greenwood Lake.
B.
Any vehicle stopped, standing or parked in a fire lane may be removed
therefrom and stored at the direction of the Village of Greenwood
Lake's Police Department. The owner or operator of such vehicle
shall be liable to the Village of Greenwood Lake or its designee for
the payment of reasonable charges for such removal and storage of
any such vehicle.
Fire lanes established by the Board of Trustees of the Village
of Greenwood Lake or its designee under this chapter and future resolutions
are as follows:
A.
The fire lane as established at the Greenwood Lake Elementary School:
a twenty-foot fire zone from the building's South side to Elm
Street.
B.
Grand Union Shopping Center.
(1)
The fire lane as established at the Grand Union Shopping Center,
Windermere Avenue, between property Section No. 305-3-5.22 and Walnut
Street, as described: a fire zone extending six feet from the outermost
part of the existing overhang with five-minute angled parking allowed
for a maximum of seven vehicles in front of the properties now known
as "Trinkets and Treasures" and the "United States Post Office," the
entire area being 80 feet in length and encompassed by a fire zone
24 feet from the building line. Signs, barriers and striping will
be installed and maintained at the expense of the owners of record
and/or their tenants.
(2)
This subsection is effective October 1, 1991, for a trial period
of six months, after which, if proven unsuccessful, it will revert
to the following: a zone extending a distance of 24 feet from the
front building line to the parking area on the entire frontage of
the stores and United States Post Office. Both descriptions include
a twenty-four-foot lane from Windermere Avenue to the building line
and from the building line to Walnut Street.
C.
The fire lane as established at Windermere Avenue and Walnut Street:
at Cumberland Farms an eight-foot fire zone from the front building
line.
D.
The fire lane as established at Windermere Avenue and Orchard Street:
at Dairy Mart a six-foot fire zone facing Windermere Avenue.
E.
The fire lane as established by Cove Marina, Jersey Avenue (Route
210): a sixteen-foot fire lane from Jersey Avenue to the boat ramp.
F.
The fire lane as established at Long Pond Marina, Jersey Avenue (Route
210): a sixteen-foot fire lane from Jersey Avenue to the lower parking
area.
G.
The fire lane as established at Willow Point Marina, Jersey Avenue
(Route 210): a sixteen-foot fire lane from Jersey Avenue to the beach
area.
H.
The fire lane at Breezy Point Inn: a sixteen-foot fire lane to be
established from Jersey Avenue to the boat ramp.
I.
The fire lane at North Shore Marina: a sixteen-foot fire lane to
be established from Windermere Avenue to the boat ramp.
J.
The fire lane as established on Waterstone Road running 223 feet
in length and 30 feet in width from the westernmost corner of the
Fire Department property to a point at the end of the property known
as the "Police Department property." The parking of vehicles is hereby
restricted to vehicles of Fire Department personnel only in the area
of the Fire Department parking lot so designated for that purpose
by signs and/or markings, and the parking of any other vehicle is
hereby prohibited at any time.
If any portion, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or portion
thereof of this chapter is for any reason held invalid or unconstitutional
by any court of competent jurisdiction, such portion shall be deemed
a separate, distinct and independent provision and such holding shall
not effect the validity of the remaining portion thereof.
This chapter shall take effect immediately upon its filing in
the office of the Secretary of State of the State of New York.
