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Village of Orchard Park, NY
Erie County
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A. 
When any vehicle is parked or abandoned on any highway within this Village during a snowstorm, flood, fire or other public emergency which affects that portion of the public highway upon which said vehicle is parked or abandoned, said vehicle may be removed by the authority of the Director of Public Works.
B. 
When any vehicle is found unattended on any highway within this Village where said vehicle constitutes an obstruction to traffic, said vehicle may be removed by authority of the Director of Public Works.
C. 
When any vehicle is parked or abandoned on any highway within this Village where stopping, standing or parking is prohibited, said vehicle may be removed by authority of the Director of Public Works.
[Amended 3-23-1992 by L.L. No. 4-1992; 3-22-2010 by L.L. No. 2-2010]
After removal of any vehicle as provided in this article, the Director of Public Works may store such vehicle in a suitable place at the expense of the owner. Such owner, or person in charge of the vehicle, may redeem the same upon payment to the Village Clerk-Treasurer of the amount of all expenses actually and necessarily incurred in effecting such removal, such removal charges shall be as set forth in Chapter A232, Fees, together with any charges for storage, such storage charges shall be as set forth in Chapter A232, Fees.
The Director of Public Works shall without delay report the removal and the disposition of any vehicle removed as provided in this article to the Village Clerk-Treasurer, and it shall be the duty of the Village Clerk-Treasurer to ascertain to the extent possible the owner of the vehicle, or person having charge of same, and to notify him of the removal and disposition of such vehicle and of the amount which will be required to redeem same.
A. 
A truck route system, upon which all trucks, tractors and tractor-trailer combinations having a total gross weight in excess of six tons are permitted to travel and operate, shall consist of the following highways:
(1) 
East and West Quaker Street (NYS Route 20A).
(2) 
North and South Buffalo Street (NYS Routes 240 and 277).
(3) 
Armor Road.
(4) 
Freeman Road.
(5) 
Thorn Avenue.
B. 
All trucks, tractors and tractor-trailer combinations having a total gross weight in excess of six tons are hereby excluded from all highways within this Village, except from those highways listed in Subdivision A, except that this exclusion shall not be construed to prevent the delivery or pickup of merchandise or other property along the highway from which such vehicles and combinations are excluded.
[Added 6-25-2001 by L.L. No. 1-2001]
Traffic is hereby prohibited from travelling northbound up the ramp leading from the lower (southerly) to the upper (northerly) parking lot under the Water Tower, and the Village shall erect and maintain signs appropriate to controlling traffic in this manner.
[Added 9-6-2002 by L.L. No. 3-2002]
During the hours of 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. right-on-red turns are prohibited on all four corners of the intersections of North and South Buffalo Street and East and West Quaker Street.
[Added 12-12-2011 by L.L. No. 3-2011[1]; amended 7-9-2012 by L.L. No. 1-2012; 9-10-2012 by L.L. No. 2-2012]
Portable crosswalk monuments may be placed:
A. 
During school hours in the crosswalk on South Lincoln Street in front of the Orchard Park Central School Middle School.
B. 
During school hours in the crosswalk on School Street at South Lincoln Street in front of the Orchard Park Central School Middle School.
C. 
During school hours on South Davis Street in front of the South Davis Elementary School.
D. 
During daylight hours in the crosswalk on Thorn Avenue at the intersection of Bank Street.
[1]
Editor’s Note: This local law also provided for the renumbering of former § 200-21 as § 200-22.