It is the aim of the Town Board of the Town
of Haverstraw to promote the public health, welfare and safety of
its residents by:
A. Regulating the use and operation of motor vehicles
upon the streets, highways and public places accessory to or connected
with industrial, commercial, professional, educational and recreational
facilities and other services or facilities accessible to the public
in the unincorporated portions of the Town.
B. Designating fire lanes and/or fire zones in shopping
centers and on private roadways and streets of apartment house complexes.
C. Regulating the use and operation of motor vehicles
in shopping centers and/or private roadways and streets of apartment
house complexes.
D. Disposing of unattended and abandoned motor vehicles
in fire lanes or other public places or zones duly marked restricted
by the Police Department or on any other public road or public area
similarly restricted during periods of public emergency by a Town
of Haverstraw agency in the interest of safety or during the winter
season where the same impedes or interferes with snow removal or safe
motor vehicle traffic.
E. Exercising the powers granted to the Town Board pursuant
to the Vehicle and Traffic Law of the State of New York (hereinafter
referred to as the "Vehicle and Traffic Law").
F. Providing for such additional reasonable ordinances,
orders, rules and regulations with respect to traffic as are not inconsistent
with the various other laws in this state.
The Town of Haverstraw Highway Department and/or
the Police Department of the Town of Haverstraw shall install and
maintain traffic control devices, when, as and where required by direction
of the Town Board of the Town of Haverstraw, under the provisions
of this chapter to make effective the provisions of this chapter and
may install and maintain such additional traffic control devices,
by direction of the Town Board of the Town of Haverstraw, as the Town
Board may deem necessary to regulate, warn or guide traffic under
the Vehicle and Traffic Law, all subject to the provisions of §§ 1682
and 1684 of that law.