The provisions of this article shall apply except
when it is necessary to stop a vehicle to avoid conflict with other
traffic or in compliance with the directions of a police officer or
official traffic control device.
Except where necessary to avoid conflict with
other traffic, or when in compliance with law or the directions of
a police officer, or official traffic control device, no person shall
stop, stand or park a vehicle on the roadway side of any vehicle stopped,
standing or parked at the edge or curb of a street.
[Added 10-8-2003 by L.L. No. 9-2003]
Except where angle parking is authorized, every
vehicle stopped, standing or parked partly upon a roadway shall be
so stopped, standing or parked parallel to the curb or edge of the
roadway. On a one-way roadway, such vehicle shall be facing in the
direction of authorized traffic movement; on a two-way roadway, such
vehicle shall be facing in the direction of authorized traffic movement
on that portion of the roadway on which the vehicle rests.
[Added 10-6-2005 by L.L. No. 7-2005]
No person shall stop, stand or park any vehicle
within 15 feet of a fire hydrant, except when such vehicle is attended
by a licensed operator or chauffeur who is seated in the front seat
and who can immediately move such vehicle in case of emergency, unless
a different distance is indicated by official signs, markings or parking
meters.
No person shall park a vehicle at any time upon any of the streets or parts thereof described in Schedule XI (§
200-50), attached to and made a part of this chapter.
[Added 7-12-2012 by L.L. No. 1-2012]
Upon being notified of any gathering of persons for an event at or on any property under circumstances which may make such action appropriate, the Village Administrator is authorized to modify or suspend temporarily any or all of the parking regulations in Chapter
200, Article
III, of this Code in order to prohibit or limit on-street parking in the vicinity of the property during the periods immediately preceding, during and following the event. The Village Administrator also is authorized to post appropriate temporary signage with respect to applicable parking prohibition or limitation, and any person parking in violation of any such parking restriction shall be guilty of a violation of this chapter.
No person shall stop a vehicle upon any of the streets or parts of streets described in Schedule XII (§
200-51), attached to and made a part of this chapter.
No person shall stand a vehicle upon any of the streets or parts of streets described in Schedule XIII (§
200-52), attached to and made a part of this chapter.
[Added 9-12-2019 by L.L.
No. 7-2019]
As used in this section, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
A. Definitions.
IDLING
The continuous operation of a gasoline-powered engine of
a motor vehicle while "parking," "standing" or "stopping" (within
the meaning of the New York State Vehicle and Traffic Law §§ 129,1 1452 and/or portions
of 1473).
MOTOR VEHICLE
Any nongovernmental vehicle operated or driven upon a public
highway which is propelled by a gasoline-powered engine, but which
is not performing an emergency service.
B. Prohibition. No person shall cause or permit the engine of any vehicle other than a bus, as defined in § 104 of the Vehicle and Traffic Law and governed by §
200-29.1 herein, to idle for more than 10 minutes while parking, standing or stopping.
1Note: Defined there as "the standing
of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise than temporarily
for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading
merchandise or passengers."
2Note: Defined there as "the stopping
of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise than temporarily
for the purpose of and while actually engaged in receiving or discharging
passengers."
3Note: Defined here to incorporate
that part of the definition which states "any halting even momentarily
of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except when necessary to avoid
conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the directions of
a police officer or traffic-control sign or signal."
No person shall park a vehicle between the hours specified in Schedule XIV (§
200-53) of any day, unless otherwise indicated, upon any of the streets or parts of streets described in said Schedule XIV, attached to and made a part of this chapter.
[Amended 9-14-2017 by L.L. No. 8-2017]
No person shall stand, park or stop a vehicle during the times specified in Schedule XV (§
200-54) of any day, unless otherwise indicated, upon any of the streets or parts of streets described in said Schedule XV, attached to and made a part of this chapter.
No person shall stand a vehicle during the times specified in Schedule XVI (§
200-55) of any day, unless otherwise indicated, upon any of the streets or parts of streets described in said Schedule XVI, attached to and made a part of this chapter.
No person shall park a vehicle upon any of the streets or parts thereof described in Schedule XVIII (§
200-57), except at the angle designated and only within the painted stall lines. On all streets or portions thereof where angle parking is now or shall hereafter be authorized, all vehicles parked thereon shall be parked with the front thereof nearest the curb.
[Added 6-12-1991 by No. 2-1991]
No person shall cause or permit the engine of
a bus, as defined in § 104 of the Vehicle and Traffic Law,
to idle for more than three minutes while parking, standing or stopping
when the ambient temperature is in excess of 40º F. except while
passengers are on board or while boarding or discharging passengers.
The area bounded on the north by the sidewalk
along the southerly side of the waiting room of the Long Island Rail
Road and a line in easterly and westerly extension thereof and bounded
on the east, south and west by land of the Village of Lawrence is
hereby designated as a passenger loading zone, in which the following
regulations shall apply:
A. A passageway along the southerly side of said sidewalk
15 feet in width and leading to a public street must be left open
at all times for the free movement of vehicles and may be used only
for loading and discharging passengers.
(1) Parking therein is prohibited.
(2) Standing or stopping therein is prohibited for a period
of time longer than is necessary for the expeditious loading or unloading
or discharge of passengers and their personal baggage.
(3) Waiting therein for passengers is prohibited.
B. The pedestrian crosswalk from the station to the Lawrence
Village Park must at all times be left open for the free and safe
use of pedestrians.
(1) Pedestrians shall have the right-of-way therein over
vehicles and vehicles shall yield such right-of-way to pedestrians.
(2) Parking, standing or stopping on such crosswalk or
in any way obstructing the same is prohibited.
C. Elsewhere in said zone, parking is prohibited for
a period of time longer than five minutes, and standing or stopping
therein is prohibited for a longer period of time than necessary to
wait for a train arrival or for the loading or unloading of passengers
and their baggage or for the transaction of business at the station
or at the store therein.
D. Any police officer present may direct traffic in said
zone, contrary to the foregoing provisions, and his directions shall
be complied with.
E. The location of said passageway and said crosswalk
shall be designated by painting on the pavement or by other pavement
marking. and a sign shall be posted on the side of the station adjacent
to said sidewalk or at some other conspicuous place, bearing the words
"passenger loading zone" and a reference to this section.
No person shall park a vehicle between 3:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m. on any streets or parts of streets in the Village, except on those streets and parts of streets indicated in Schedule XXII (§
200-61), attached to and made a part of this chapter.
[Added 9-13-2004 by L.L. No. 6-2004]
No person shall stop, park or leave standing
any motor vehicle in any area designated as a place for handicapped
parking unless the vehicle displays a special vehicle identification
permit or bears a disabled person’s or disabled veterans’
registration entitling such motor vehicle to park in any public or
private area of the Village designated as a place for parking for
persons with disabilities. Such permit and/or registration shall be
for use exclusively in a vehicle in which the person to whom it has
been issued is being transported.
[Added 7-13-2023 by L.L. No. 3-2023]
No person shall park a commercial vehicle at any time upon any of the streets or parts thereof described in Schedule XXIV (§
200-63), attached to and made a part of this chapter.