[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Board of the Town of Cortlandt 10-21-1997
by L.L. No. 7-1997. Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Traffic Safety Board — See Ch. 99.
The Town Board of the Town of Cortlandt has always deemed it in the
public interest and necessary for the public health, welfare and safety to
adopt ordinances regulating traffic control in the Town of Cortlandt. In this
day and age when amendments to the vehicles and traffic ordinance becomes
necessary on a more frequent basis, a more modern method of adopting such
restrictions is necessary. It is with this in mind that the Town Board does
hereby ordain and adopt this chapter.
The Town Board of the Town of Cortlandt, in accordance with this chapter,
may from time to time adopt traffic control restrictions on all traffic within
the Town of Cortlandt by adopting rules and regulations as part of this chapter.
Any rule or regulation with respect to the movement of traffic in the Town
of Cortlandt or with respect to parking of automobiles in the Town of Cortlandt
shall be done at a meeting of the Town Board wherein a resolution of the Board
shall be adopted specifically setting forth the restriction imposed by the
Town Board on traffic in the Town of Cortlandt.
The Town Clerk, following the Board's adoption of a resolution requiring
the regulation of traffic in the Town of Cortlandt, shall post said resolution
on the official bulletin board of the Town of Cortlandt as soon after the
adoption of said resolution may be practicable. Upon the posting of said resolution
on the official bulletin board of the town as aforementioned, the Town Clerk
shall cause a certified copy of said resolution to be forwarded to the Chief
of Police of the Town of Cortlandt, the New York State Police Barracks in
the Town of Cortlandt and the Westchester County Department of Public Safety.
Such regulations shall become effective 10 days following the posting of said
resolution on the official bulletin board of the Town of Cortlandt and the
erection of the appropriate traffic control device.
All regulations existing in the ordinances, local laws and regulations
of the Town of Cortlandt at the time of the adoption of this chapter shall
be continued and shall be indexed by the Town Clerk as if individually adopted
by this Town Board by resolutions pursuant to the procedure set forth herein.
Chapter 78[1] of the Town Code of the Town of Cortlandt be and hereby is repealed
in its entirety and Local Law No. 5-1989 be and is hereby repealed.
[1]
Editor's Note: Chapter 78 refers to Ch. 78, Vehicle and Traffic, of
the Code of 1967.
Any person who shall violate any rule or regulation as set forth and
adopted in accordance with this chapter shall be guilty of a traffic infraction
and should said violation be written as a violation of the Vehicle and Traffic
Law of the State of New York, shall be punished in accordance with the penalties
prescribed by the State Legislature in said Vehicle and Traffic Law. Should
no penalty be prescribed in the Vehicle and Traffic Law of the State of New
York, and a violation of this chapter shall take place, then the penalty imposed
thereon shall be a fine not to exceed the sum of $50 for the first offense
and for a second such offense a fine not to exceed the sum of $100. The Justice
Court of the Town of Cortlandt shall have full jurisdiction of any violation
of this chapter.
