This chapter shall be entitled "Removal of Abandoned and Inoperative
Vehicles From Public Property Within the Incorporated Village of Poquott."
Pursuant to Section 10 of the Home Rule Law, the Vehicle and Traffic
Law, and the Village Law of the State of New York, the Incorporated Village
of Poquott, County of Suffolk, State of New York, hereby enacts this Local
Law 1 of 2007 of the Incorporated Village of Poquott.
The Incorporated Village of Poquott must have a mechanism that permits
the Village to remove vehicles from public property.
For the purpose of promoting the health, safety, morals or general welfare
of the community, regulating the use of streets and public places by motor
and other vehicles, and with reasonable consideration of the most desirable
use for which land in any building district may be adapted, to conserve property
values, to abate nuisances and undesirable uses, to regulate the parking,
storage or otherwise locating of house coaches, trailers, dismantled, unlicensed
or abandoned motor vehicles and to regulate the use of public parking fields
and areas, this article is enacted pursuant to the general and specific governmental
powers conferred upon the Board of Trustees by law.
The words and phrases used in this chapter shall, for the purposes of
this chapter, have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by Article I
of the Vehicle and Traffic Law of the State of New York. As used in this chapter,
the following terms shall have the meanings indicated.
ABANDONED VEHICLE
Shall be defined in the manner prescribed by § 1224 of
the Vehicle and Traffic Law of the State of New York as if set forth completely
herein.
INOPERATIVE VEHICLES
Any vehicle which is in such a condition or state of repair that
it cannot be operated immediately, or which is wholly or partially in such
a dismantled state that it cannot be used legally or licensed for use on a
public highway or street, or it is not intended to be so licensed or used,
or which does not bear a valid license plate or is not registered with an
appropriate government agency. The term excludes any vehicle which is actually
undergoing emergency repair which will not extend over a reasonable period
of time.
OWNER
Shall be defined in the manner prescribed by § 1224 of
the Vehicle and Traffic Law of the State of New York as if set forth completely
herein.