[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village
of Woodbury 3-27-2012 by L.L. No. 2-2012. Amendments noted where
applicable.]
In order to promote the health, safety and welfare of the residents
of the Village of Woodbury, it is found necessary to enable police
officers and fire police officers to control and regulate vehicular
and pedestrian traffic, and the stopping, standing and parking of
vehicles, in the vicinity of fire, accident and other public emergency
scenes.
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings ascribed to them below:
Every duly designated person appointed pursuant to § 209-c
of the General Municipal Law of the State of New York. This individual
will report and serve at the direction of the Fire Chief, First Assistant
Fire Chief and/or Second Assistant Fire Chief. A fire police officer
shall have satisfied any requirements for training offered by the
State Office of Fire Prevention and Control, or an equivalent course
as approved by the State Office of Fire Prevention and Control.
Persons as defined in § 1.20 of the Criminal Procedure
Law of the State of New York.
A Fire Police of the Village of Woodbury Fire Department is
hereby created and organized pursuant to § 209-c of the
General Municipal Law of the State of New York. The Chief of the Village
of Woodbury Fire Department shall, on the first day of May in each
year, in writing, recommend to the Mayor those members of the Village
of Woodbury Fire Department for appointment as fire police officers.
The term of each fire police officer appointed by the Mayor, with
the approval of the Board of Trustees, shall be one year and shall
begin on the first day of June of the year in which the appointment
is made. The appointment of any fire police officer may be revoked
at any time by the Mayor, with the approval of the Board of Trustees,
and pending such approval of the Board of Trustees, the Mayor can
suspend any such individual from duty.
A.
Whenever deemed advisable during a fire or at the time of any accident
or other special emergency, a police officer or fire police officer
may, for such period of time as deemed necessary for public safety
and the effectiveness of emergency personnel, temporarily close any
street or section thereof to vehicular traffic, or they may temporarily
divert any vehicular or pedestrian traffic away from the vicinity
of the emergency scene, or they may curtail the stopping, standing
or parking of any vehicle in the vicinity of the emergency scene.
B.
It shall be a violation of this chapter for any person to disregard
any direction of a police officer or fire police officer given in
the furtherance of their authority bestowed hereunder, including but
not limited to the failure or refusal to move a vehicle away from,
or to otherwise depart from, the vicinity of a fire, accident or other
special emergency scene.
Each violation of this chapter shall be punishable by a fine
not exceeding $250 for each offense. A conviction under this chapter
shall constitute a violation.
