The Board of Trustees of the Village of Saugerties
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.
Pursuant to the provisions of § 1603(a)
of the Vehicle and Traffic Law, power is hereby delegated to the Village
of Saugerties Police Department to exercise, by official order, rule
or regulation, the following powers granted to the legislative body
of this Village in Article 39 of the Vehicle and Traffic Law; subject,
however, to the limitations imposed by §§ 1645 and
1684 of the Vehicle and Traffic Law. It shall:
A. Designate through highways and order stop signs, flashing
signals or yield signs erected at specified entrances thereto or designate
any intersection as a stop intersection or a yield intersection and
order like signs or signals at one or more entrances to such intersection.
B. Prohibit or regulate the turning of vehicles or specified
types of vehicles at intersections or other designated locations.
C. Regulate the crossing of any roadway by pedestrians.
D. Designate any highway or any separate roadway thereof
for one-way traffic.
E. Exclude trucks, commercial vehicles, tractors, tractor-trailer
combinations and trucks in excess of any designated weight from designated
highways.
F. Prohibit, restrict or limit the stopping, standing
or parking of vehicles.
G. Determine those highways or portions of highways which
shall be marked to indicate where overtaking and passing or driving
to the left of the roadway would be especially hazardous in accordance
with the standards, minimum warrants and sign or marking specifications
established by the State Department of Transportation.
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I. Provide for the installation, operation, maintenance,
policing and supervision of parking meters, establish parking time
limits at such meters, designate hours of operation of such meters,
and fix and require the payment of fees applicable to parking where
such meters are in operation. Such fees shall be paid to the Village
and credited to the general fund, unless a different disposition shall
be prescribed by local ordinance or law.
J. Establish a system of truck routes upon which all
trucks, tractors and tractor-trailer combinations having a total gross
weight in excess of 10,000 pounds are permitted to travel and operate
and excluding such vehicles and combinations from all highways except
those which constitute such truck route system. Such exclusion shall
not be construed to prevent the delivery or pickup of merchandise
or other property along the highways from which such vehicles and
combinations are otherwise excluded. Any such system of truck routes
shall provide suitable connection with all state routes entering or
leaving such Village.
K. Regulate traffic by means of traffic control signals.
L. License, regulate or prohibit processions, assemblages
or parades. When such a procession, assemblage or parade authorized
by a local authority will block the movement of traffic on a state
highway maintained by the state, or on a highway which connects two
state highways maintained by the state to make a through route, for
a period in excess of 10 minutes such authority must, prior to such
blocking, provide and designate with conspicuous signs a detour adequate
to prevent unreasonable delay in the movement of traffic on said highway
maintained by the state.
M. Prohibit or regulate the operation and the stopping,
standing or parking of vehicles in cemeteries and in public parks.
N. Provide for the removal and storage of vehicles parked
or abandoned on highways during snowstorms, floods, fires or other
public emergencies, or found unattended where they constitute an obstruction
to traffic or any place where stopping, standing or parking is prohibited,
and for the payment of reasonable charges for such removal and storage
by the owner or operator of such vehicle.
O. Adopt such additional reasonable local laws, ordinances,
orders, rules and regulations with respect to traffic as local conditions
may require, subject to the limitations contained in the various laws
of the state.
P. Adopt such local laws, ordinances, orders, rules or
regulations prohibiting, restricting or limiting the stopping, standing
or parking of vehicles upon property owned or leased to the Village
of Saugerties.