[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village of Briarcliff
Manor 3-21-1996 by L.L. No. 3-1996; amended in its entirety at time of adoption
of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I). Subsequent amendments noted
where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
General powers and duties of Manager — See Ch. 38, Art. I.
The Board of Trustees of the Village of Briarcliff Manor determined
it appropriate to establish a local law to grant authority to the Village
Manager, or his designee, to declare a storm emergency. Article 2-B of the
Executive Law provides that in the event of a disaster, the Village Manager,
or his designee, is authorized to declare a local state of emergency within
the Village and to issue local emergency orders to protect life and property
or to bring the emergency under control.
It shall be the duty of the Village Manager, or his designee, to declare
a storm emergency. Such condition will exist whenever he/she finds that falling
snow, sleet or freezing rain or inclement weather will create a condition
which makes it necessary that the standing or parking of motor vehicles on
Village streets be prohibited to allow for the uninterrupted removal of snow
or debris. Upon such declaration, a time and date for the storm emergency
declaration shall be established directing that all vehicles must be removed
from Village streets not more than one hour after such declaration and remain
off the streets until such time the declaration expires.
After a reasonable effort to contact the owner of a vehicle, the Briarcliff
Manor Police Department is authorized to remove, or have removed, any vehicle
impeding passage of emergency vehicles during the storm emergency. The Police
Department will maintain a record of the location to which the vehicle has
been towed. The owner shall have the responsibility of retrieving the vehicle
and paying all towing charges incurred. Any person violating provisions of
this chapter by failure to follow the direction of the Police Department to
remove a vehicle from a public street shall upon conviction be punished by
a fine of not more than $250.
