Pursuant to the provisions of Subdivision (a)
of § 1603 of the Vehicle and Traffic Law power is hereby
delegated to the Building and Code Inspector and all police agencies
to exercise, by official order, rule or regulation the following powers
granted to the legislative body of this Town in Article 41 of the
Vehicle and Traffic Law; subject, however, to the limitations imposed
by §§ 1664 and 1684 of the Vehicle and Traffic Law.
A. Upon a roadway which is divided into three lanes,
allocate the center lane exclusively for traffic moving in a specified
direction.
B. 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 road.
C. 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 marking specifications
established by the State Traffic Commission.
D. 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 Town highway
maintained by the Town, or on a highway which connects two Town highways
maintained by the Town, to make a through route, for a period in excess
of ten 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 Town highway
maintained by the Town.
E. Prohibit or regulate the operation and the stopping,
standing or parking of vehicles in cemeteries and in public parks.
F. 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.
G. Regulate traffic by means of traffic control signals.
H. Establish a system of truck routes upon which all
trucks, tractors, and tractor-trailer combinations having a total
gross weight in excess of ten thousand 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.
I. 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 sales, or per inch width of tire when in its opinion
such highway would be materially injured by the transportation of
any such vehicle thereon. 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 or 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.