It is the purpose of this chapter to promote
the public health, safety, and general welfare, and to protect the
public by control over the disorderly operation of vehicles, snowmobiles
and motor vehicles. The provisions of this chapter are designed:
A. To protect human life and health;
B. To prevent conditions that destroy the aesthetic qualities
of the Town;
C. To prevent conditions which tend to depreciate not
only the property on which such conditions are located, but also the
property of other persons in the neighborhood and Town generally;
and
D. To prevent conditions that cause the Town to be less
safe and less pleasant a place in which to live and to do business.
This chapter shall apply to all areas within
the jurisdiction of the Town of Sullivan, outside the Village of Chittenango.
No person shall operate a vehicle, snowmobile,
or motor vehicle, including a limited use vehicle and specialty motor
vehicle, upon any public highway, or upon any private road, or upon
any driveway, parking lot or place over which a vehicle, snowmobile
or motor vehicle is operated, public or private, or upon a parking
area of a shopping center, in such a manner as to cause or create
a disturbance, or to cause alarm or fear for the safety of person
or property, or to disturb the peace and quiet of any person or persons
in the Town.
No owner of a vehicle, snowmobile or motor vehicle,
including a limited use vehicle and specialty motor vehicle, or person
to whom exclusive possession of same has been given by the owner,
shall permit or acquiesce in the disorderly operation of same, as
herein prohibited, and no owner of any private road, driveway, parking
lot or place over which a vehicle, snowmobile or motor vehicle is
operated, or parking area of a shopping center, or person to whom
exclusive possession of same has been demised by the owner, shall
permit or acquiesce in the disorderly operation of a vehicle, snowmobile,
or motor vehicle, as herein prohibited.
In their interpretation and application, the
provisions of this chapter shall be held to be minimum requirements
adopted for the promotion of the public health, morals, safety, or
the general welfare. Whenever the requirements of this chapter are
at variance with the requirements of any other lawfully adopted laws,
rules, regulations or ordinances, the most restrictive or that imposing
the higher standards, shall govern.
It shall be unlawful to violate any provision
of this chapter.
Penalties for violation of the provisions of
this chapter by failure to comply with any of its requirements are
as follows:
A. Any person found to be violating any provision of
this chapter shall be served by the Town with written notice stating
the nature of the violation and providing a reasonable time limit
for the satisfactory correction thereof. The offender shall, within
the period of time stated in such notice, permanently cease all violations.
B. Any person who fails to comply with the provisions
of this chapter shall, upon conviction, be guilty of a violation as
defined in § 10.00 of the Penal Law of the State of New
York and shall be subject to a fine not exceeding $250 for each offense
or by imprisonment not exceeding 15 days, or by both such fine and
imprisonment. The continued violation of any provision of any section
of this chapter shall constitute a separate offense for each and every
day such violation of any provision hereof shall continue.
C. As an alternative, upon violation of this chapter,
the proper authorities of the Town, in addition to other remedies,
may institute any appropriate action or proceeding, including an injunction,
to prevent such unlawful acts.
D. Any person violating any of the provisions of this
chapter shall become liable to the Town for any expense, loss or damage
occasioned the Town by reason of such violation, and the Town may
initiate an action in a court of competent jurisdiction to recover
such damages.
This chapter shall be enforced by the Town,
through its duly appointed representatives, as the Town Board may,
by resolution, from time to time designate.