A.
The words and phrases used in this article shall, for the purposes
of this article, have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by
Article 1 of the Vehicle and Traffic Law of the State of New York.
B.
CURBLINE
HOLIDAYS
OFFICIAL TIME STANDARD
PARKING METER ZONE
PUBLIC PARKING LOT
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 article:
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, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day,
Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day shall be considered "holidays."
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.
A designated location upon or within which the parking of
vehicles is regulated by parking meters.
A plot or parcel of land or building owned and/or leased
by this Village, not including highways, upon or within which the
parking of vehicles is regulated by signs and/or parking meters.
The Highway Department shall install and maintain traffic control
devices when and as required under the provisions of this article,
to make effective the provisions of this article, and may install
and maintain such additional traffic control devices as the Board
of Trustees 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.
Pursuant to the provisions of Subsection (a) of § 1603
of the Vehicle and Traffic Law, power is hereby delegated to the Chief
of Police to exercise, by official order, rule or regulation, the
following powers granted to the legislative body of this Village in
Article 39 of the Vehicle and Traffic Law subject, however, to the
limitations imposed by §§ 1682 and 1684 of the Vehicle
and Traffic Law:
A.
Designate through highways and order stop signs, flashing signals
or yield signs erected at specified entrances thereto or designate
any intersection as a stop intersection or a yield intersection and
order line signs or signals at one or more entrances to such intersection.
B.
Prohibit or regulate the turning of vehicles or specified types of
vehicles at intersections or other designated locations.
C.
Regulate the crossing of any roadway by pedestrians.
D.
Designate any highway or any separate roadway thereof for one-way
traffic.
E.
Exclude trucks, commercial vehicles, tractors, tractor-trailer combinations
and trucks in excess of any designated weight from designated highways.
F.
Prohibit, restrict or limit the stopping, standing or parking of
vehicles.
G.
Determine those highways or portions of highways which shall be marked
to indicate where overtaking and passing or driving to the left of,
or crossing, such markings would be especially hazardous in accordance
with the standards, minimum warrants and sign or marking specifications
established by the Department of Transportation.
H.
Designate safety zones.
I.
Provide for the installation, operation, maintenance, policing and
supervision of parking meters, establish parking time limits at such
meters, designate hours of operation of such meters, and fix and require
the payment of fees applicable to parking where such meters are in
operation. Such fees shall be paid to the Village and credited to
its general fund, unless a different disposition is prescribed by
local law or ordinance enacted prior to or after the effective date
of this section.
J.
Establish a system of truck routes upon which all trucks, tractors
and tractor-trailer combinations having a total gross weight in excess
of 10,000 pounds are permitted to travel and operate and excluding
such vehicles and combinations from all highways except those which
constitute such truck route system. Such exclusion shall not be construed
to prevent the delivery or pickup of merchandise or other property
along the highways from which such vehicles and combinations are otherwise
excluded. Any such system of truck routes shall provide suitable connection
with all state routes entering or leaving the Village.
K.
Regulate traffic by means of traffic control signals.
L.
License, regulate or prohibit processions, assemblages or parades.
M.
Prohibit or regulate the operation and the stopping, standing or
parking of vehicles in cemeteries and in public parks.
N.
Provide for the removal and storage of vehicles parked or abandoned
on highways during snowstorms, floods, fires or other public emergencies,
or found unattended where they constitute an obstruction to traffic
or any place where stopping, standing or parking is prohibited, and
for the payment of reasonable charges for such removal and storage
by the owner or operator of any such vehicle.
O.
Adopt such additional reasonable local laws, ordinances, orders,
rules and regulations with respect to traffic as local conditions
may require subject to the limitations contained in the various laws
of this state.
P.
Adopt such additional reasonable local laws, ordinances, orders,
rules and regulations prohibiting, restricting or limiting the stopping,
standing or parking of vehicles upon property owned or leased by the
Village.
