The Board of Trustees of the Village of Lake
Success, County of Nassau, State of New York, pursuant to the provisions
of the Vehicle and Traffic Law of the State of New York, does hereby
enact the following chapter to regulate traffic and the use of vehicles
within the corporate limits of the Village of Lake Success.
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
VEHICLE
Every device in and upon, or which any person or property
is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway, except devices that
can be moved only by human power or used exclusively upon rails and
tracks.
When any vehicle is parked or abandoned or found
unattended on any highway or public place within the Village of Lake
Success during a snowstorm, flood, fire or other public emergency
affecting such highway or public place, or which vehicle constitutes
an obstruction to traffic, or where stopping, standing or parking
is prohibited, said vehicle may be removed by order of the Lake Success
Police Department and shall be removed and stored in such place and
by such commercial towing garage as may, from time to time, be designated
by the Board of Trustees. Such removal and storage shall be at the
expense of the owner of said vehicle, and such owner or person in
charge of the vehicle may redeem same upon payment to the designated
garage of the full cost of removal and storage, the rates for which
shall be uniform and shall be approved, from time to time, by the
Board of Trustees. The Lake Success Police Department shall endeavor
to ascertain the owner of each such vehicle removed from the Village
and shall notify him of the removal and disposition of his vehicle
and the amount of the charges which will be required to redeem same.
None of the foregoing provisions shall be considered to interfere
with the sale of unclaimed vehicles pursuant to other provisions of
law.
No person shall ride a bicycle or vehicle or
drive or ride a horse upon any street within the Village at a rate
of speed or in a manner to endanger the life, limb and/or property
of the public.
[Added 11-21-1983 by L.L. No. 8-1983]
A. Stop intersections. The intersections described in
the Schedule of Traffic Signs, Part 2, are hereby designated as full-stop intersections, and
stop signs shall be erected as indicated. All vehicles shall comply
with said signs by coming to a full stop before proceeding.
B. School crossing stops. All vehicles shall come to
a full stop and defer to pedestrians crossing at locations having
stop signs, as indicated by the Schedule of Traffic Signs, Part 3.
C. Yield intersections. The intersections described in
the Schedule of Traffic Signs, Part 4, are hereby designated as yield
intersections, and yield signs erected there shall be complied with
by all vehicles.
D. One-way streets. The streets or parts of streets described
in the Schedule of Traffic Signs, Part 5, are hereby designated as
one-way streets, and vehicles shall proceed only in the direction
indicated.
E. Prohibited turns. No vehicle shall make a turn of
the kind designated as prohibited at any of the locations or at the
times specified, as described in the Schedule of Traffic Signs, Part
6.
F. Keep right. All vehicles shall proceed only on the
right side of obstructions as indicated by "keep right" signs at locations
described in the Schedule of Traffic Signs, Part 7.
G. Do not enter. No vehicle may enter into any street
or part of a street designated with a "do not enter" sign in locations
described in the Schedule of Traffic Signs, Part 8, and "dead end"
signs, also in Part 8, indicating there is no outlet for traffic which
enters the street.
H. Do not block side road. No vehicle may stop or enter
an intersection where there is not sufficient space to proceed beyond
a side road, so as to block access to or egress from any side road.
Locations of signs saying "do not block side road" are described in
the Schedule of Traffic Signs, Part 9.
I. Lanes must turn as indicated. All vehicles in lanes
marked with signs "left lane must turn left" or "right lane must turn
right" shall only proceed if they turn in the manner indicated at
the intersections described in the Schedule of Traffic Signs, Part
10.
J. Do not pass. No vehicle shall pass another vehicle
going in the same direction on streets posted with "do not pass" signs,
as described in the Schedule of Traffic Signs, Part 11.
K. No through trucks. No commercially licensed vehicle
may proceed continuously through a street, from one intersection to
the next, on streets so designated in the Schedule of Traffic Signs,
Part 12.
[Added 11-21-1983 by L.L. No. 7-1983]
The Village of Lake Success shall install and
maintain 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 the Board of Trustees 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.
[Added 11-21-1983 by L.L. No. 7-1983]
The provisions of this chapter shall be implemented
by the adoption of regulations by the Board of Trustees or by the
Chief of Police, who is hereby authorized pursuant to § 1603
of the Vehicle and Traffic Law and § 20-2002 of the Village
Law to implement and adopt such regulations. Such regulations shall
be placed in the Schedule of Traffic Signs which shall be attached
to and form a part of this chapter, and a violation of any regulation contained in said schedules
shall be deemed a violation of this chapter.
[Amended 4-16-1979 by L.L. No. 1-1979; 3-4-1985 by L.L. No.
1-1985; 8-13-2012 by L.L. No. 4-2012]
Any person violating any of the foregoing provisions
of this chapter shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding $1,500
for each and every offense.