[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Board of the
Town of Orchard Park as Secs. 9-1 through 9-31 of the 1970 Code. Amendments
noted where applicable.]
A.
Required. The operator of a vehicle shall obey the
instructions of any official traffic control sign, signal, marking
or device applicable thereto placed in accordance with the provisions
of this chapter or of the Vehicle and Traffic Law, unless otherwise
directed by a traffic or police officer, subject to the exceptions
granted the operator of an authorized emergency vehicle in the Vehicle
and Traffic Law.
B.
Signs. No provisions of this chapter or of the Vehicle
and Traffic Law for which signs are 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.
A.
Prescribed. Pursuant to the provisions of § 1662-a
of the Vehicle and Traffic Law, the Town Board may prescribe the speed
at which vehicles may proceed upon the public streets and highways
of the Town.
B.
Signs required. The Town Board shall cause suitable
signs to be erected indicating the speed at which vehicles may proceed
on such public streets and highways within the Town.
[1]
Editor's Note: The schedule of speed limits
is on file in the office of the Town Clerk.
A.
Authority. The Town Board may, at such time as it
deems advisable, designate streets, avenues or roads in the Town,
or parts thereof, as through streets.
B.
Signs required. Conspicuous signs or signals shall
be displayed at all points where through streets have been established.
[1]
Editor's Note: The schedule of through streets
is on file in the office of the Town Clerk.
The erection of stop signs at all four corners
of through streets intersecting with each other shall be authorized,
with the right-of-way as provided by the Vehicle and Traffic Law.
The Town Board may, at such time as it deems
advisable, authorize the Police Department to place yield signs at
any intersection of streets or highways, and the erection or placing
of such yield signs shall be presumptive evidence that such signs
were erected and placed at the direction of the Town Board.
[1]
Editor's Note: The schedule of yield intersections
is on file in the office of the Town Clerk.
A.
Authority; signs required. Pursuant to § 1660(a)(16)
of the Vehicle and Traffic Law, the Town Board is hereby authorized
to designate public streets and highways in which vehicles shall pass
in one direction only and the time such restrictions shall be in effect,
and shall cause such streets and highways to be marked by suitable
signs during the hours in which such designation is to be observed.
[1]
Editor's Note: The schedule of one-way streets
is on file in the office of the Town Clerk.
A.
Authority; signs required. Pursuant to § 1660(a)(17)
of the Vehicle and Traffic Law, the Town Board is hereby authorized
to designate public streets and highways in the Town from which trucks,
commercial vehicles, tractors, tractor-trailer combinations and trucks
in excess of any designated weight shall be excluded, and shall cause
such streets and highways to be marked by suitable signs during the
time in which such designation is to be observed.
[1]
Editor's Note: The schedule of streets closed
to heavy trucks is on file in the office of the Town Clerk.
A.
Designation. The Town Board shall have the authority
to designate streets or parts of streets where parking is prohibited
and shall cause such streets or parts of streets to be marked by suitable
signs or other devices.
[1]
Editor's Note: The schedule of streets where
parking is prohibited is on file in the office of the Town Clerk.
A.
Designation. The Town Board shall have the authority
to designate streets or parts of streets where parking time limits
have been established, and shall cause such streets or parts of streets
to be marked by suitable signs or other devices indicating the parking
time limits and the periods when such time limits shall take effect.
B.
Effect. When parking time limits are established for
a part of a public street, highway or public parking area and such
places are appropriately signposted or marked to indicate the parking
time limit, it shall be unlawful for any person to park or leave standing
any vehicle upon such public street or highway or public parking area
in violation of such parking time limit.
C.
All public streets, roads and highways in the Town
of Orchard Park, outside of the Village of Orchard Park, are hereby
designated as a restricted parking district from 1:00 a.m. to 7:00
a.m. during the period from November 1 to April 1 in each year.
D.
The owner or operator of any vehicles removed from
a restricted parking district, pursuant to the provisions of this
section, shall be liable for the payment of charges for such removal
and storage.
[1]
Editor's Note: The schedule of streets where
parking is limited is on file in the office of the Town Clerk.
A.
Designation. The Town Board shall have the authority
to designate streets or parts of streets as loading zones and shall
cause such areas to be marked by suitable signs or other devices.
B.
Effect. No person shall park or leave standing any
vehicle within a space designated as a loading zone and suitably marked
as such, except for the exclusive purpose of loading and unloading.
[1]
Editor's Note: The schedule of loading zones
is on file in the office of the Town Clerk.
A.
Designation. Pursuant to the Vehicle and Traffic Law,
the Town Board is hereby authorized to designate safety zones and
bus, cab or taxicab stands in the public streets or highways of the
Town and in parking areas either owned, operated or controlled by
the Town, and to limit or prohibit parking in spaces and zones in
said streets, highways and parking areas, and to cause such zones,
spaces and stands to be marked and indicated by suitable signs.
B.
Signs for bus stops. Spaces specified as parking and
stopping places for buses shall be marked and indicated by suitable
stationary and portable signs indicating the location and extent of
such places so reserved.
C.
Effect. No person shall park or leave standing any
automobile or other vehicle except a bus within a space designated
as a bus stop, and except a taxicab within a space designated as a
taxicab stand and suitably marked as such within the Town.
[1]
Editor's Note: The schedule of safety zones,
bus and cab stands is on file in the office of the Town Clerk.
[Added 6-6-1973]
In the event of a fire or other emergency, to
expedite traffic or to safeguard pedestrians or property, any police
officer or other person empowered to regulate traffic in the Town
of Orchard Park may direct traffic as the conditions may require notwithstanding
the provisions of the Vehicle and Traffic Law or of local laws, ordinances,
orders, rules, regulations, Administrative Code or Sanitary Code provisions
of the Town of Orchard Park regulating traffic.
[Added 8-1-1990; amended 4-27-2011 by L.L. No. 1-2011]
Parking or standing in appropriately marked fire lanes is hereby
prohibited.
