[Adopted 4-3-1974 by L.L. No. 2-1974 as Art. I of Ch. 102 of the 1974 Code]
This article shall be known as a law providing for safety of motor vehicle operation on town roads and highways; for regulation, maintenance and management of vehicular safety in public places with respect to movement of traffic, parking, ingress and egress; for vehicular safety in shopping centers and other places accessible to the public in the unincorporated area of the Town of Clarkstown; and for the establishment of a Traffic Violations Bureau. This article shall not apply to individual residential lots.
It is the aim of the Town Board of the Town of Clarkstown to promote the public health, welfare and safety of its residents by:
A. 
Regulating the use and operation of motor vehicles upon the streets, highways and public places accessory to or connected with industrial, commercial, professional, educational and recreational facilities and other services or facilities accessible to the public in the unincorporated portions of the town.
B. 
Regulating the construction, reconstruction, management and maintenance of open areas, avenues of access or parking spaces for motor vehicles at the foregoing or similar uses and activities.
C. 
Designating fire lanes and/or fire zones in shopping centers and private apartment complexes.
[Amended 5-12-1976 by L.L. No. 5-1976]
D. 
Regulating the use and operation of motor vehicles in shopping centers[1] and private apartment complexes.
[Amended 5-12-1976 by L.L. No. 5-1976]
[1]
Editor's Note: See also Ch. 240, Shopping Center Parking Areas.
E. 
Disposing of unattended and abandoned motor vehicles in fire lanes or other public places or zones duly marked as being restricted by the Police Department or on any other public road or public area similarly restricted during periods of public emergency by a Town of Clarkstown agency in the interest of safety or during the winter season where the same impedes or interferes with snow removal or safe motor vehicle traffic.
F. 
Exercising the powers granted to the Town Board pursuant to the Vehicle and Traffic Law of the State of New York.
G. 
Establishing a Traffic Violations Bureau.
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 I of the Vehicle and Traffic Law of the State of New York.
B. 
The following words and phrases have meaning as follows:
FIRE ZONE AND FIRE LANE
An unobstructed passageway marked or designated on public or private property accessible to the public to permit free ingress and egress of fire, police and other emergency vehicles and equipment from a public highway.
PARK, PARKING or PARKED
The stopping upon any public highway and leaving a motor vehicle or motorcycle unattended by a person capable of operating it.
[Added 9-11-1991 by L.L. No. 6-1991]
PERSON
Includes an individual, corporation, partnership, association or any other organized group of persons, or legal successor or representative of any of the foregoing.
[Amended 9-11-1991 by L.L. No. 6-1991]
PROPERTY
Any real property within the town which is not a street or highway.
VEHICLE
Any conveyance by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon the street.
[Added 9-11-1991 by L.L. No. 6-1991]
C. 
All words, terms and phrases used herein not specifically defined in either the Vehicle and Traffic Law of the State of New York or herein shall have their usual meaning in the English language.
The Town of Clarkstown Highway Department and/or the Police Department of the Town of Clarkstown shall install and maintain traffic control devices when, as and where required by direction of the Town Board of the Town of Clarkstown, under the provisions of this Article, to make effective the provisions of said Article, and may install and maintain such additional traffic control devices, by direction of the Town Board of the Town of Clarkstown, as the Town Board may deem necessary to regulate, warn or guide traffic under the Vehicle and Traffic Law of the State of New York, all subject to the provisions of §§ 1682 and 1684 of that law.
A. 
The registered owner of a vehicle shall be presumed to be prima facie responsible for compliance with any requirement of this Article and to be prima facie responsible for any nonmoving violation hereof, except that it shall be a defense that the vehicle has been previously reported to and recorded by police as stolen.
B. 
The erection of a sign exercising any powers hereinbefore or hereinafter set forth shall constitute prima facie evidence of a rule, resolution or regulation duly adopted by the Town Board of the Town of Clarkstown and filed in the office of the Town Clerk authorizing the same.
C. 
The specification of a particular rule or regulation herein shall be presumed to be in addition to and no by way of limitation of any rules or regulations heretofore or hereafter enacted by resolution of the Town Board of the Town of Clarkstown dealing in any way with the matters or subjects included within the scope of this Article.
A. 
The Town Board of the Town of Clarkstown has heretofore and shall hereafter by resolution, as it sees fit, direct the appropriate town agency to:
(1) 
Upon a roadway which is divided into three lanes, allocate the center lane exclusively for traffic moving in a specified direction.
(2) 
Order signs erected directing slow-moving traffic, trucks, buses or specified types of vehicles to use a designated lane; or with signs, signals or markings designate those lanes to be used by traffic moving in a particular direction regardless of the center of the roadway.
(3) 
Determine those highways or portions of highways which shall be marked to indicate where overtaking and passing or driving to the left of the roadway would be especially hazardous in accordance with the standards, minimum warrants and sign or marking specifications established by the Department of Transportation.
[Amended 9-11-1991 by L.L. No. 6-1991]
(4) 
License, regulate or prohibit processions, assemblages or parades. Whenever such a procession, assemblage or parade authorized by a local authority will block the movement of traffic on a state highway maintained by the state, or a county road maintained by the county, or on a highway which connects two state highways maintained by the state to make a through route, or on a road which connects two county roads maintained by the county to make a through route, for a period in excess of 10 minutes, such authority must, prior to such blocking, provide and designate with conspicuous signs a detour adequate to prevent unreasonable delay in the movement of traffic on said state highway maintained by the state and/or county road maintained by the county.
(5) 
Prohibit or regulate the operation and the stopping, standing or parking of vehicles in public parks.
(6) 
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.
(7) 
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 such town.
(8) 
Temporarily exclude from any portion of any town highway any vehicle with a gross weight of over four or more tons, or any vehicle with a gross weight in excess of any designated weight on any wheel, axle, any number of axles or per-inch width of tire when in its opinion such highway would be materially injured by the operation of any such vehicle thereof. Such exclusion shall take effect upon the erection of signs on the section of highway from which such vehicles are excluded, and a notice that such vehicles are excluded shall be published in a newspaper in the county where the highway is situated. The exclusion shall remain in effect until the removal of the signs as directed by the Town Board. Upon written application by any operator of a vehicle subject to this section, the Town Board may issue a permit providing appropriate exemption to such vehicle if it is deemed that said vehicle is performing essential local pickup or delivery service and that a failure to grant such permit would create hardship. Every such permit may designate the route to be traversed and contain other reasonable restrictions of conditions deemed necessary. Every such permit shall be carried on the vehicle to which it refers and shall be open to inspection of any peace officer. Such permits shall be for the duration of the restriction imposed under this section.
(9) 
Prohibit, restrict or regulate the operation of vehicles on any controlled-access highway or the use of any controlled-access highway by any vehicle, device moved by human power or pedestrian.
(10) 
Prohibit or regulate the turning of vehicles or specified types of vehicles at intersections or other designated locations.
(11) 
Regulate the crossing of any roadway by pedestrians.
(12) 
Designate any highway or any separate roadway thereof for one-way traffic.
(13) 
Exclude trucks, commercial vehicles, tractors, tractor-trailer combinations and trucks in excess of any designated weight from designated highways. Such exclusions 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.
[Amended 9-11-1991 by L.L. No. 6-1991]
(14) 
Prohibit, restrict or limit the stopping, standing or parking of vehicles.
(15) 
Designate safety zones.
(16) 
Designate county roads and town highways as through highways and order stop signs, flashing signals or yield signs erected on county roads or town highways at specified entrances to such through highways, or designate any intersection except those where one or more entering highways is a state highway maintained by the state as a stop intersection or a yield intersection, and order like signs or signals at one or more entrances to such intersections.
(17) 
Regulate traffic by means of traffic control signals.
(18) 
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 a fee applicable to parking where such meters are in operation. The Town Board of any town may exercise these powers on behalf and at the expense of a public parking district with respect to highways outside of villages, but within such public parking district, in which event the fees from such parking meters shall belong to such district, and the cost of operation and maintenance thereof shall thereafter be borne by such public parking district.
(19) 
Authorize angle parking on any roadway.
(20) 
Adopt such additional reasonable 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.
(21) 
Prohibit, restrict or limit the stopping, standing or parking of vehicles upon property owned or leased by such town.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Former Subsection A(22), Dimensions and weights of vehicles, Subsection A(23), Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations, and Subsection A(24), Violations of conditions of overweight vehicles, which immediately followed, were redesignated as Arts. II, III and IV, respectively, by L.L. No. 6-2013, adopted 8-20-2013.
A. 
All resolutions of the Town Board of the Town of Clarkstown heretofore or hereafter adopted and heretofore or hereafter filed in the office of the Town Clerk of the Town of Clarkstown establishing or in any other way dealing with specific traffic control signals, one-way roadways, crosswalks, turning movements, stop and yield intersections, parking, both as to location and time, truck routes, pavement markings, safety zones, center-lane allocations, lane designations, truck-excluded routes, etc., are herein and hereby adopted, enacted and incorporated by reference as if the same were hereinafter set forth in full and with the same force and effect as if separately stated.
B. 
Violations of the resolutions set forth in Subsection A above are hereby prohibited.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Former Code § 102-8, School buses and buses carrying passengers, was deleted 9-11-1991 by L.L. No. 6-1991.
The Town Clerk shall and must maintain in her office separate schedules of all resolutions of the Town Board dealing with the exercise of traffic control powers set forth in § 278-7. Said schedules shall be public records, open to inspection to any member of the public at any time during regular business hours of the office of the Town Clerk.
A. 
Establishment. A Traffic Violations Bureau is hereby established in the Town of Clarkstown, to be operated by a director and such other personnel as may in time become necessary.
B. 
Organization.
(1) 
The Senior Court Clerk is hereby designated as the Director of the Traffic Violations Bureau.
(2) 
Said Bureau shall maintain such hours as may be designated by the Justice Court.
C. 
Jurisdiction. The Traffic Violations Bureau shall be authorized to dispose of any violations of the traffic laws, ordinances, rules and regulations when such offenses shall not constitute the traffic infraction known as "speeding" or a misdemeanor or felony.
D. 
Procedure.
(1) 
Any individual may plead guilty to an offense within the jurisdiction of the Traffic Violations Bureau by a written document in such form as prescribed by the Traffic Violations Bureau, waiving the right to trial, and inclusion with said document of the payment of such fine as shall be designated by the Town Justice Court for said offense, provided that such fines are within the limits established as penalties for such offense.
(2) 
At any time prior to the issuance of a warrant for an alleged violator's arrest, the alleged violator may appear personally, or by designated person, or by written power of attorney, in such form as prescribed by the Traffic Violations Bureau, before the Traffic Violations Bureau to answer the violation alleged. Said violation may be satisfied by payment of the prescribed fine and a writing waiving a court hearing. Fulfillment of said conditions shall presumptively be considered a plea of guilty, which plea the Bureau Director shall be authorized to enter. A defense of prior theft of a motor vehicle interposed to a nonmoving violation by the owner thereof shall be established to and accepted by the Traffic Violations Bureau by the mailing, by the vehicle owner or his agent, by certified mail, return receipt, of a certified record of the report made of said theft of the motor vehicle to any police department to the attention of said Traffic Violations Bureau.
(3) 
Fulfillment of said conditions shall be deemed complete satisfaction for the violation, and the violator shall be given a receipt which so states.
E. 
Failure to answer. If a person charged with a traffic violation does not answer the violation, as prescribed in § 278-9D, within the time specified on the notice of violation, the Bureau shall cause a complaint to be entered against said person, and a warrant to be issued for said person's arrest and appearance before the court.
F. 
Persons not eligible. Any person who shall have been, within the preceding 12 months, guilty of a number of parking violations in excess of a maximum number to be established by the court, or of three or more violations other than parking violations, shall not be permitted to appear and answer to a subsequent violation before the Traffic Violations Bureau, but must appear in court at a time specified by the Bureau.
G. 
Restrictions. The Traffic Violations Bureau shall not be authorized to deprive a person of his right to counsel or to prevent him from exercising his right to appear in court to answer to, explain or defend any charge of a violation of any traffic law, ordinance, rule or regulation.
H. 
Establishment of fine. The Justice Court shall designate the fines to be paid for offenses which may be satisfied at the Bureau, as provided in this article, provided that such fines are within the limits established as penalties for such offenses.
I. 
Maintaining records.
(1) 
The Traffic Violations Bureau shall keep a record of all violations of which each person has been guilty, whether such guilt was established in court or in the Bureau, and also a record of all fines collected and the disposition thereof, as well as a record of the disposition of all charges brought before, referred to or otherwise processed by it.
(2) 
The Bureau shall also perform such other or additional duties and keep such other or additional records as shall be prescribed by the court and/or the Town Board.
A. 
No person shall operate his motor vehicle upon any public highway, private road or other area open to motor vehicle traffic within the unincorporated area of the Town of Clarkstown at a rate of speed in excess of 30 miles per hour, except that the rate of speed on other roads, highways or areas accessible to public vehicular travel in the unincorporated area of the Town of Clarkstown shall not be in excess of any duly posted speed limit. This section shall not apply to ambulances, fire vehicles or police vehicles when on emergency trips, and they shall operate as required with due regard to the emergency and due observance of safety in the circumstances. This article shall not apply to state highways maintained by the State of New York.
B. 
School speed limits during the time that school is in operation and for one hour before and one hour after the opening and closing of classes shall be 15 miles per hour on any portion of any public highway, private road or other area open to motor vehicle traffic, within the unincorporated area of the Town of Clarkstown, passing a school building for a distance of 300 feet in either direction from the property line of a school abutting on said public highway, private road or the road in the unincorporated area in the Town of Clarkstown.
C. 
No person shall drive a vehicle at a speed greater than is reasonable and prudent under the conditions and having regard to the actual and potential hazards then existing.
[Added3-14-2000 by L.L. No. 4-2000]
[Amended 5-12-1976 by L.L. No. 5-19766-7-1978 by L.L. No. 3-19786-7-1978 by L.L. No. 4-19784-14-1981 by L.L. No. 4-19814-28-1981 by L.L. No. 6-19813-16-1982 by L.L. No. 4-19829-14-1982 by L.L. No. 12-198210-9-1984 by L.L. No. 3-1984]
A. 
Blocking of driveways and entrances prohibited. No vehicles shall be parked in front of any driveway or in front of or within 10 feet, measured along the curb, of the entrance to any theater, auditorium, church or other public building or any firehouse, except for such reasonable time as may be necessary for taking on or discharging passengers or merchandise.
B. 
Stopping, standing or parking not to obstruct traffic. No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle upon any town-dedicated sidewalk, street or highway within the unincorporated portion of the Town of Clarkstown in such a manner or under such conditions as to obstruct the movement of pedestrian or vehicular traffic and in no instance so as to leave less than 12 feet of roadway available for the free movement of vehicular traffic.
C. 
Parking for certain purposes prohibited. No person shall park a vehicle upon any town-dedicated sidewalk, street or highway within the unincorporated portion of the Town of Clarkstown for the principal purpose of:
(1) 
Displaying such vehicle for sale.
(2) 
Washing, greasing or repairing such vehicle, except repairs necessitated by an emergency.
(3) 
Storing such vehicle. Any vehicle parked for a period of time in excess of 24 hours shall be deemed parked for the principal purpose of storing such vehicle.
D. 
Parking of commercial vehicles restricted. When parking is not otherwise restricted, no person shall park a commercial vehicle upon any town-dedicated sidewalk, street or highway within the unincorporated portion of the Town of Clarkstown for a period in excess of three hours.
E. 
Parking unregistered vehicles. No person shall park a vehicle upon any town-dedicated sidewalk, street or highway within the unincorporated portion of the Town of Clarkstown unless it is properly registered and the current number plates with tag, if required, issued for the vehicle are properly displayed thereon.
F. 
Parking of trailers. No person shall park any trailer or semitrailer on any town-dedicated sidewalk, street or highway within the unincorporated portion of the Town of Clarkstown, except while loading or unloading at off-street platforms, unless such trailer or semitrailer is attached to a motor vehicle capable of towing it.
G. 
Parking of buses prohibited. No person shall park a bus at any time on any town-dedicated sidewalk, street or highway within the unincorporated portion of the Town of Clarkstown unless authorized by signs, except that a chartered bus may park where parking is otherwise permitted at the point of destination.
H. 
Nighttime parking restrictions.
(1) 
Parking on any streets, roads and highways of the town between the hours of 12:00 midnight and 6:00 a.m. which is otherwise permitted is prohibited during the period from November 15 to April 1.
(2) 
Parking of any vehicle not owned by the town shall be prohibited on all town-owned property, property leased by the town and property used by the town pursuant to a license agreement with the owner, between 12:00 midnight and 6:00 a.m., except that this provision shall not apply where the owner or operator of the vehicle is actually engaged in town business.
(3) 
The owner or operator of any motor vehicle parked in violation of § 278-11H(1) and (2), in addition to any other penalties which may be imposed, shall be liable for any expenses incurred by the town in towing said unlawfully parked motor vehicle, such charges not to exceed the actual cost incurred, together with any charges for storage, such storage charges not to exceed $25 per day or fraction thereof.
[Amended 9-11-1991 by L.L. No. 6-1991]
I. 
Parking permits for persons with disabilities.
[Amended 5-23-1995 by L.L. No. 8-1995]
(1) 
The Town Clerk of the Town of Clarkstown shall be designated as the agent to distribute special vehicle identification parking permits to persons with disabilities issued by the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles pursuant to § 1203-a of the Vehicle and Traffic Law of the State of New York.
(2) 
The Clerk shall adopt the application forms and procedures as promulgated by the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles for the issuing of these parking permits. These permits shall be issued to residents of the Town of Clarkstown who are eligible for them under the guidelines established by the State Advocate for the Handicapped.
(3) 
Should the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles or the State Advocate for the Handicapped not establish guidelines, then the Town Clerk is authorized to issue permits to all residents of the Town of Clarkstown who can establish by medical certification that they are suffering from physical disability seriously impairing mobility.
(4) 
All permits issued by the Town Clerk shall be valid for a period of five years or for a lesser period as determined by the Town Clerk for a disability which is temporary in nature. The Clerk shall issue a five-year permit to all applicants who can establish by medical certification that the disability is permanent in nature.
(5) 
A vehicle bearing such special vehicle identification permit, when parked, shall not be deemed in violation of any of the provisions of the rules and regulations governing parking in the Town of Clarkstown, except where such vehicle is parked in a bus stop, a taxi stand, within 15 feet of a fire hydrant, a fire zone, fire lane, firehouse, a driveway or a crosswalk or is double-parked.
(6) 
Any person to whom a permit has not been issued and who shall use a permit issued pursuant to this section for any purpose other than parking a motor vehicle while transporting a person with a disability shall be guilty of a violation within the meaning of the Penal Law.
J. 
Parking spaces for persons with disabilities.
[Amended 6-11-1985 by L.L. No. 5-1985;5-23-1995 by L.L. No. 8-1995]
(1) 
Except as otherwise regulated by § 1203-c of the Vehicle and Traffic Law, in all shopping centers which have filed a written request with the Town of Clarkstown to regulate traffic in parking areas pursuant to § 1660-a of the Vehicle and Traffic Law, the Building Inspector of the Town of Clarkstown shall designate parking spaces to be provided for use solely by handicapped persons who have been issued parking permits pursuant to § 278-11I of the Code of the Town of Clarkstown or by motor vehicles registered in accordance with § 404-a of the Vehicle and Traffic Law.
(2) 
These parking spaces shall be located in the general parking area of the shopping center and shall be in close proximity to an entrance of the stores in the shopping center.
(3) 
The spaces shall be laid out in such a manner as to comply with both the American Disabilities Act and the New York State Code, General Building Construction.
(4) 
The parking spaces designated pursuant to the provisions of this section shall be clearly identified for use by persons with disabilities, which designation shall include conspicuous and permanently installed above-grade signs which display the international symbol of access and uniform sign authorized for handicapped parking by the Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, and which shall be positioned from the parking space surface at a height of not less than five feet nor more than seven feet and may include the use of blue painted lines or markings.
(5) 
Parking spaces.
(a) 
Parking areas, where provided, and parking garages shall comply with both the American Disabilities Act and the New York State Code, General Building Construction.
(b) 
The Town Board, upon written application and for good cause shown, may waive the minimum number of spaces above provided.
(6) 
Except as otherwise provided by local law, any person who parks a vehicle without a special municipal parking permit or a motor vehicle not registered in accordance with the local or state law and not being used for the transportation of a person with a disability in a space identified for use by the disabled when there is visible any one of the following markings: blue lines, the international symbol of access, the uniform sign authorized for handicapped parking by the Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, or any combination of the above, or by any clear marking pursuant to the specifications of § 1203-c of the Vehicle and Traffic Law of the State of New York shall be subject to a fine of not less than $35 and not more than $100 for the first offense and not less than $50 and not more than $200 for every offense thereafter.
K. 
Parking for the disabled at private apartment and condominium complexes. Upon receipt of a written request pursuant to § 1660-a of the Vehicle and Traffic Law, the Town Board may, by resolution, designate specific reserved parking spaces for the use of disabled persons who have been issued parking permits pursuant to § 278-11I of this Code or by motor vehicles registered in accordance with § 404-a of the Vehicle and Traffic Law. The size of such spaces shall comply with both the American Disabilities Act and the New York State Code, General Building Construction.
[Amended 5-23-1995 by L.L. No. 8-1995]
L. 
Parking in nondesignated areas. No person shall cause or permit a motor vehicle to be parked or to stand, except in designated areas.
[Added 3-22-2016 by L.L. No. 3-2016]
A. 
Authority to impound vehicles.
(1) 
When any vehicle is parked or abandoned on any highway within this town during a snowstorm, flood, fire or other public emergency which affects that portion of the public highway upon which said vehicle is parked or abandoned, said vehicle may be removed by the Town Highway Department.
(2) 
When any vehicle is found unattended on any highway within this town where said vehicle constitutes an obstruction to traffic, said vehicle may be removed upon written authorization of the Police Department.
(3) 
When any vehicle is parked or abandoned on any highway within this town where stopping, standing or parking is prohibited, said vehicle may be removed upon written authorization of the Police Department.
B. 
Storage and charges. After removal of any vehicle as provided in this section, such vehicle will be stored in a suitable place at the expense of the owner. Such owner or person in charge of the vehicle may redeem the same upon payment to the Town of Clarkstown of the amount of all expenses actually and necessarily incurred in effecting such removal, together with any charges for storage, such storage charges not to exceed $25 per day or fraction thereof.
[Amended 10-9-1984 by L.L. No. 3-19849-11-1991 by L.L. No. 6-1991]
C. 
Notice of removal. The Chief of Police or the Superintendent of Highways shall, without delay, report the removal and the disposition of any vehicle removed as provided in this Article to the Supervisor, who shall cause the Chief of Police to ascertain, to the extent possible, the owner of the vehicle or person having the same in charge and to notify him of the removal and disposition of such vehicle and of the amount which will be required to redeem the same.
D. 
Sale or conversion of abandoned vehicles.
[Amended 4-26-1979 by L.L. No. 3-1979]
(1) 
Auction sale of abandoned vehicles. In the event that vehicles are abandoned, as provided in § 1224 of the Vehicle and Traffic Law of the State of New York, the Town of Clarkstown may cause the same to be auctioned at a public auction after due notice to the public, as provided by applicable statute, the proceeds of which auction are to be applied to the general fund of the Town of Clarkstown. The Town Clerk is hereby authorized to execute certificates of transfer of title to the vehicles so auctioned.
(2) 
Conversion of abandoned vehicles. In the event that vehicles are abandoned, as provided in § 1224 of the Vehicle and Traffic Law of the State of New York, the Town of Clarkstown may convert in any calendar year 1% of its unclaimed abandoned vehicles or two such vehicles, whichever is greater, to its own use.
[Amended 5-12-1976 by L.L. No. 5-1976]
A. 
Regulation and control with respect to parking areas and driveways of a hospital, office building or office building complex or place of public assembly, or parking area of a shopping center, or the parking areas and driveways of facilities owned or leased by a not-for-profit corporation, or the parking areas, driveways and private streets or roadways of a private apartment house complex, private condominium complex or cooperative apartment complex, or the parking areas, private streets, roadways or driveways of mobile home parks or manufactured home parks, or the parking areas and driveways of a fire station, or the parking areas, private streets, roadways or driveways of an industrial park or industrial complex. The Town Board of the Town of Clarkstown, pursuant to the authority granted under § 1660-a of the Vehicle and Traffic Law of the State of New York and § 130, Subdivision 15, of the Town Law of the State of New York, does hereby authorize the Superintendent of Highways of the Town of Clarkstown, subject to the approval by resolution of the Town Board, to perform the following functions, in the discharge of which the Superintendent of Highways may, as required, request the assistance of the Clarkstown Police Department, which shall cooperate and provide such necessary aid as may be indicated or required in the circumstances:
[Amended 4-8-1980 by L.L. No. 1-1980; 9-11-1991 by L.L. No. 6-1991; 10-12-1993 by L.L. No. 3-1993; 5-13-2008 by L.L. No. 4-2008]
(1) 
Order stop signs, flashing signals or yield signs erected at entrance or exit locations to such area or designate any intersection in such area as a stop intersection or as a yield intersection and order like signs or signals at one or more entrances to such intersection.
(2) 
Regulate traffic in any such area, including regulation by means of traffic control signals.
(3) 
Prohibit or regulate the turning of any vehicles or specified types of vehicles at intersections or other designated locations in such area.
(4) 
Regulate the crossing of any roadway in such area by pedestrians.
(5) 
Designate any separate roadway in such area for one-way traffic.
(6) 
Prohibit, regulate, restrict or limit the stopping, standing or parking of vehicles in specified areas of such area.
(7) 
Designate safety zones in any such area.
B. 
Illegally parked and abandoned vehicles.
[Amended 9-11-1991 by L.L. No. 6-1991; 5-13-2008 by L.L. No. 4-2008]
(1) 
In addition to the foregoing, the Police Department of the Town of Clarkstown is hereby authorized and directed to remove and store or have removed and stored vehicles parked or abandoned in such area during snowstorms, floods, fires or other public emergencies or unattended vehicles in such area where:
(a) 
They obstruct traffic; or
(b) 
Stopping, standing or parking is prohibited.
(2) 
The owner or operator of any motor vehicle parked in violation of the foregoing provision shall be liable for any expenses incurred by the Town in the removal of said motor vehicle, together with any charges for storage of said motor vehicle; such storage charges shall be established by the Chief of Police.
C. 
Establishing and marking of fire zones. The Chief Fire Safety Inspector of the Town of Clarkstown, in cooperation with the Chief of Police and the Traffic Advisory Board, subject to approval by resolution of the Town Board of the Town of Clarkstown, is hereby authorized, pursuant to the authority granted under § 1660-a of the Vehicle and Traffic Law of the State of New York and § 130, Subdivision 15, of the Town Law of the State of New York, to determine and establish appropriate fire lanes and fire zones at parking areas and driveways of a hospital, office building or office building complex or place of public assembly, or parking area of a shopping center, or the parking areas and driveways of facilities owned or leased by a not-for-profit corporation, or the parking areas, driveways and private streets or roadways of a private apartment house complex, private condominium complex or cooperative apartment complex, or the parking areas, private streets, roadways or driveways of mobile home parks or manufactured home parks, or the parking areas and driveways of a fire station, or the parking areas, private streets, roadways or driveways of an industrial park or industrial complex. The owner or the person in general charge of the operation and control of such area, subsequent and pursuant to the resolution of the Town Board approving the same, shall provide or cause to be erected or installed adequate signs, markings and other devices to delineate said fire lanes and fire zones on such premises and shall at all times maintain such signs, markings and other devices delineating such fire lanes and fire zones as directed by the Chief Fire Safety Inspector of the Town of Clarkstown.
[Amended 4-8-1980 by L.L. No. 1-198010-12-1993 by L.L. No. 3-199312-31-1996 by L.L. No. 19-199611-12-2002 by L.L. No. 13-2002; 5-13-2008 by L.L. No. 4-2008]
D. 
Fire lanes shall not be less than 20 feet of unobstructed width, shall be able to withstand live loads of fire apparatus and shall have a minimum of 13 feet six inches of vertical clearance. Fire lanes and fire zones shall be marked with signs that have the words "NO STANDING - FIRE LANE (or ZONE)" and shall have the appropriate yellow pavement markings installed in conformance with the New York State Uniform Traffic Code requirements.
[Added 12-31-1996 by L.L. No. 19-1996; amended 11-12-2002 by L.L. No. 13-2002]
E. 
Prohibitions. No motor vehicle shall park, stand or remain unattended in a fire lane or fire zone. Fire lanes and fire zones are to be maintained free of all obstructions at all times.
[Added 12-31-1996 by L.L. No. 19-1996]
A. 
Any other provision notwithstanding, any police officer of the Town of Clarkstown is hereby authorized and empowered to issue or cause to be issued a summons, returnable in the Justice Court of the Town of Clarkstown or any other court of competent jurisdiction, for any motor vehicle in violation of the traffic and safety provisions of this article, and, likewise, the Building Inspector hereby is authorized and empowered to issue such summons for any violation involving the operation, maintenance and control of any premises.
[Amended 4-9-2013 by L.L. No. 2-2013]
B. 
Every person convicted of a traffic infraction for a violation of any provision of this article shall, for a first conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not more than $250 or by imprisonment for not more than 15 days, or by both such fine and imprisonment; for a second such conviction within 18 months thereafter, such person shall be punished by a fine of not more than $1,000 or by imprisonment for not more than 15 days, or by both such fine and imprisonment; upon a third or subsequent conviction within 18 months after the first conviction, such person shall be punished by a fine of not more than $2,500 or by imprisonment for not more than 15 days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
[Amended 9-11-1991 by L.L. No. 6-1991; 4-9-2013 by L.L. No. 2-2013]
C. 
Any person committing an offense against any provision of this article shall be guilty of a violation punishable by a fine not exceeding $250 or by imprisonment for a term not exceeding 15 days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. The continuation of an offense against the provisions of this article shall constitute, for each day the offense is continued, a separate and distinct offense hereunder.
[Amended 4-28-1976 by L.L. No. 3-1976]
D. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, any violation hereof which constitutes a misdemeanor under the Vehicle and Traffic Law shall be punished in the manner as provided by the Vehicle and Traffic Law of the State of New York.
A. 
Required obedience to traffic laws. It is unlawful and, unless otherwise specified in the New York State Vehicle and Traffic Law with respect to particular offenses, it is a violation for any person to do any act forbidden or to fail to perform any act required by the New York State Vehicle and Traffic Law and shall be punishable by a fine of not less than $80.
B. 
Obedience to required traffic control devices. Every person shall obey the instructions of any official traffic control device applicable to him placed in accordance with the provisions of the New York State Vehicle and Traffic Law, unless otherwise directed by a traffic or police officer, subject to the exceptions granted the driver of an authorized emergency vehicle in the New York State Vehicle and Traffic Law. Failure to comply with this section shall constitute a violation and be punishable by a fine of not less than $150.