A. 
The words and phrases used in this chapter shall for the purpose of this chapter have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by Article 1 of the Vehicle and Traffic Law of the State of New York.
B. 
The following words and phrases which are not defined by Article 1 of the Vehicle and Traffic Law of the State of New York shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them in this section for purposes of the traffic ordinances of this City.
CURBLINE
The prolongation of the lateral line of a curb or, in the absence of a curb, the lateral boundary line of the roadway.
HOLIDAYS
New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas.
OFFICIAL TIME STANDARD
The time standard which is in current use in this state whenever certain hours are named herein or on traffic control devices.
PARKING METER ZONE
A designated location upon or within which the parking of vehicles is regulated by parking meters.
PUBLIC PARKING LOT
A plot or parcel of land or building owned and/or leased by this City, not including highways, upon or within which the parking of vehicles is regulated by signs and/or parking meters.
The Department of Public Works shall install and maintain traffic control devices when and as required under the provisions of this chapter to make effective the provisions of said chapter and may install and maintain such additional traffic control devices as it may deem necessary to regulate, warn or guide traffic under the Vehicle and Traffic Law of the State of New York subject to the provisions of §§ 1682 and 1684 of that law.
A. 
The Chief of Police shall have the power, in the event of fire or other emergency or to expedite traffic or to safeguard pedestrians or property, to direct traffic as 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 regulating traffic.
B. 
The Chief of Police shall in the exercise of his powers as set forth in Subsection A herein, cause appropriate signs to be temporarily erected whenever necessary to adequately advise all persons of such temporary changes.
Traffic control signals shall be installed, maintained and operated as follows:
A. 
Three section signal heads at the following intersections:
Name of Street
At Intersection With
Castle Street
Exchange Street
Castle Street
Genesee Street
Castle Street
Main Street and Milton Street
Castle Street
[Added by Ord. No. 78-18, eff. 12-6-1978]
Pulteney Street
Copeland Avenue and Town and Country Plaza
[Added 5-1-1996 by Ord. No. 96-2]
Hamilton Street
Exchange Street
[Repealed by Ord. No. 80-21, eff. 7-2-1980]
Exchange Street
North Street
Exchange Street
State Street and Middle Street
Genesee Street
Avenue D
Genesee Street
Lewis Street
Genesee Street
North Street
North Main Street
[Added 5-1-1996 by Ord. No. 96-2]
North Street
North Street, East
Evans Street
North Street, West
Larchmont Street
North Street, West
North Brook Street
Pulteney Street
Hamilton Street
Pulteney Street
Milton Street and High Street
Pulteney Street
Washington Street
Pulteney Street
William Street
Seneca Street
Linden Street
Wegman's Entrance and Town and Country Plaza
[Added 5-1-1996 by Ord. No. 96-2]
Hamilton Street
White Springs Road
[Added 5-1-1996 by Ord. No. 96-2]
Hamilton Street
William Street
[Added by Ord. No. 78-18, eff. 12-6-1978]
South Main Street
B. 
Three section signal heads with green arrows permitting right turns on red designated as follows:
(1) 
Castle Street at West North Street with green arrow permitting right turn on red into Castle Street from West North Street for traffic proceeding from the west.
(2) 
Exchange Street at Lake Street with green arrows permitting right turns into Lake Street from Exchange Street for traffic proceeding from the south and into Exchange Street from Lake Street for traffic proceeding from the east.
(3) 
Seneca Street at Main Street with green arrow permitting right turn into Seneca Street from Main Street for traffic proceeding from the south.
[Amended by Ord. No. 70-5, eff. 3-4-1970; Ord. No. 70-16, eff. 6-3-1970; Ord. No. 70-30, eff. 12-2-1970; Ord. No. 74-13, eff. 6-5-1974; Ord. No. 74-23, eff. 8-7-1974; 12-6-1978 by Ord. No. 78-18; Ord. No. 79-18, eff. 9-5-1979; Ord. No. 80-13, eff. 6-4-1980; Ord. No. 80-22, eff. 8-6-1980; Ord. No. 83-15, eff. 7-6-1983; 4-5-1989 by Ord. No. 89-6]
A. 
The following streets are hereby designated as one-way traffic in the direction indicated:
(1) 
Center Street between State Street and North Street proceeding north.
(2) 
Dorchester Avenue proceeding north and east.
(3) 
Franklin Street from Exchange Street to west line of driveway west of the Penn Central Railroad tracks proceeding east.
(4) 
Howard Street proceeding west.
(5) 
Linden Street proceeding south.
(6) 
Park Avenue proceeding west.
(7) 
Park Place proceeding from its northerly intersection with Main Street and proceeding westerly, then southerly and then easterly in a semicircle to its southerly intersection with Main Street.
(8) 
Pine Street proceeding south.
(9) 
Seymour Alley proceeding east.
(10) 
Union Street proceeding north.
(11) 
West Street between Washington Street and High Street proceeding north.
[Amended 8-6-2008 by Ord. No. 4-2008]
(12) 
William Street between Main Street and Pulteney Street proceeding east.
(13) 
Mason Street between North Street and Torrey Avenue proceeding north.
(14) 
Milton Street between Pulteney and Main Street proceeding west.
(15) 
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive proceeding south.
(16) 
Patterson Alley proceeding west.
(17) 
Argyle Street proceeding east.
(18) 
Worthington Avenue proceeding east.
(19) 
Geneva Gardens between Pulteney Street and Jay Street proceeding west and south.
[Added 9-2-1998 by Ord. No. 98-12; amended 11-17-1998 by Ord. No. 98-16]
The turning of vehicles so as to proceed in the opposite direction is hereby prohibited at the following locations:
Name of Street
At Intersection With
Castle Street
Exchange Street
Castle Street
Linden Street
Castle Street
Main Street and Milton Street
Seneca Street
Exchange Street
Seneca Street
Linden Street
Seneca Street
Main Street