The Chief of Police shall provide for the installation
and maintenance of traffic control devices when and as required under
the provisions of this chapter, to make effective the provisions of
this chapter, and may install and maintain such additional traffic
control devices as he 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.
[Amended 2-26-2007 by L.L. No. 2-2007; 1-28-2013 by L.L. No.
1-2013]
Every person convicted of an offense against any provision of this chapter which is not an offense against any provision of the Vehicle and Traffic Law of the State of New York shall be deemed guilty of a traffic infraction and shall be punished as provided in § 1800 of the Vehicle and Traffic Law. Such will be subject however to any additional requirements, fines and or punishments for convictions of an offense against any provision as defined in §
505-19.
If any article, section, subsection, paragraph,
sentence, clause or provision of this chapter shall be adjudged by
any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such adjudication
shall not affect, impair or invalidate the remainder thereof but shall
be confined in its operation to the article, section, subsection,
paragraph, sentence, clause or provision thereof directly involved
in the controversy in which such judgment shall have been rendered.
All prior local laws, ordinances, regulations
and rules or parts of such of the City of Port Jervis regulating traffic
and parking are hereby repealed, except that this repeal shall not
affect or prevent the prosecution or punishment of any person for
any act done or committed in violation of any local law, ordinance,
regulation or rule hereby repealed prior to the taking effect of this
chapter.
[Added 11-24-1997 by L.L. No. 8-1997]
A. Regulations not exclusive. The provisions of this
chapter imposing a time limit on parking or standing on a public street
for the purpose of performing maintenance on a vehicle shall not relieve
any person of the duty to observe other and more restrictive provisions
prohibiting or limiting the stopping, standing or parking of vehicles
as set forth in the New York State Vehicle and Traffic Law or the
Code of the City of Port Jervis or any New York statute or as hereinafter
provided.
B. Repairing vehicle parked on street. No person, persons,
firm, partnership or corporation shall, at any hour of the day or
night, make mechanical repairs or perform any routine maintenance
of any nature or description whatsoever to any motor vehicle while
said motor vehicle is parked, stored, positioned or standing on any
public street, avenue, road or highway within the corporate limits
of the City of Port Jervis.
C. Limited repair permitted. Limited repair of a vehicle
is permitted if such repair is of an emergency nature and such repair
shall not last more than 15 minutes.
D. Penalties for offenses; enforcement. Any person committing
an offense against any provision of this chapter shall, upon conviction
thereof, be guilty of a violation pursuant to the Penal Law of the
State of New York, punishable by a fine not exceeding $250 or by imprisonment
for a term not to exceed 15 days, or both such fine and imprisonment.
The continuation of an offense against the provisions of this chapter
shall constitute, for each day the offense is continued, a separate
and distinct offense hereunder.