The Traffic Commission shall place and maintain traffic-control
signs, signals and devices when and as required under this chapter
to make effective the provisions hereof, and may place and maintain
such additional traffic-control devices as it may deem necessary to
regulate traffic under this chapter or under state law, or to guide
or warn traffic.
The driver of every vehicle shall obey the instructions of any
official traffic-control device applicable thereto placed in accordance
with this chapter, unless otherwise directed by a police officer.
A.
No provision of this chapter for which signs are hereby required
shall be enforced against an alleged violator if, at the time and
place of the alleged violation, an official sign is not in proper
position and sufficiently legible to be seen by an ordinarily observant
person. Whenever a particular section does not state that signs are
required, such section shall be effective even though no signs are
erected or in place.
B.
All motorists shall comply with traffic-control signs including "no
U-Turn" signs as enacted by the Traffic Commission. (See Appendix
A, Schedule I.[1])
[1]
Editor's Note: Appendix A is included as an attachment to this chapter.
C.
Appendix A. Attached as an Appendix A to these statutes is a schedule
list, which is a list of roadways in the Incorporated Village of Malverne
which are regulated for U-turn restrictions, one-way streets, heavy
trucking, stop signs, parking restrictions and loading zones. These
specific locations are regulated by past legislation and resolutions
issued by the Traffic Commission.
Traffic-control signals shall regulate traffic in accordance with § 44-13 hereof, and also at all intersections between any two such control signals at which appropriate signs clearly indicating such regulation shall be conspicuously displayed.
A.
Whenever traffic is lawfully regulated by a traffic-control signal,
the following colors may be used and none other, and those colors,
when lighted, shall be obeyed as required by this section and in accordance
with their meaning as set forth in this section.
B.
Red shall require that traffic shall stop and remain standing.
C.
Green shall mean that traffic shall move.
D.
Amber, when used, shall mean that the colors in the signal are about
to change and shall require that traffic shall stop and remain standing
unless the amber is lighted too late to allow a stop to be made with
safety.
E.
Red, when used in a flashing caution signal, shall require that traffic
shall stop and then proceed with caution.
F.
Amber, either fixed or flashing, when used in caution signals, shall
mean proceed with caution.
G.
The foregoing meanings of amber and red shall not apply to ambulances,
fire vehicles, police vehicles and vehicles operated by a Chief or
Assistant Chief of a Fire Department or a county Fire Marshal or assistant
county Fire Marshal when on emergency trips, provided such vehicles
are driven with caution and adequate warning is sounded.
H.
The colors in any such traffic-control signal shall be placed and
shall show, with relation to each other, as follows: red shall be
at the top, green shall be at the bottom and amber, when used, shall
be in the center.
I.
Intersections.
(1)
At all intersections when traffic is controlled by traffic-control
signals, movement shall be made on the green light only, except that
movement on the red light shall be permitted where the direction of
movement shall be indicated by a green arrow which shall flash or
light simultaneously with the red light, but such movement on the
red light shall be made only after the vehicle moving shall have first
come to a full stop and only when interference with vehicular or pedestrian
traffic is not occasioned thereby.
(2)
The Traffic Commission is authorized to direct that such green arrows
be attached to the traffic-control signal, so indicating the movement
of traffic on the red light, at any intersection at which it shall
deem such movement necessary or desirable.
The Traffic Commission is hereby authorized:
A.
To direct the marking, by appropriate devices, of marks or lines
upon the surface of the roadway, of crosswalks at intersections and
at other places.
B.
To direct the marking of lanes for traffic on street pavements, in
conformity with the markings adopted from time to time by the New
York State Traffic Commission. It shall be unlawful, except in an
emergency, for any person to drive any vehicle across a double line
marked on the roadway surface by or under the direction of the Traffic
Commission, except where the line consists of a solid line and a broken
line and the broken line is on the same side as the vehicle.
[1]
Editor's Note: On 10-25-1955, the Traffic Commission
resolved that the Police Department is authorized to mark double white
lines down the center of the following streets, within the Village
of Malverne, for the control of vehicular traffic: Ocean Avenue, Cornwell
Avenue, Tilrose Avenue and Hempstead Avenue.
A.
The Traffic Commission may direct the placing of markers, buttons
or signs within or adjacent to intersections, indicating the course
to be traveled by vehicles turning at such intersections in accordance
with this chapter and the state law.
B.
When authorized signs, markers, buttons or other indications are
placed within an intersection indicating the course to be traveled
by vehicles turning thereat, no driver of a vehicle shall disobey
the directions of such indications.
