It shall be unlawful for any person to fail
to comply with any order, rule or regulation relating to traffic or
parking made by or under the authority of the Village Board or in
accordance with this chapter, or for any person to fail to comply
with any direction by voice, hand or sign of any member of the Police
Department in connection therewith, or for any person to fail to comply
with any traffic control device, sign or marking unless otherwise
directed by a member of the Police Department.
Traffic control devices, markings, or signs shall be installed and operated at the intersection of those streets or at those locations described in Schedule I (§ 235-61), attached to and made a part of this chapter. Each traffic control device, marking or sign shall conform to the manual and specifications of the New York State Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices (NYS MUTCD). No person shall operate a vehicle on or over any street within the Village except in full compliance with all traffic control devices, markings and signs.
The speed limit for both directions of traffic along the streets or parts thereof described in Schedule II (§ 235-62), attached to and made a part of this chapter, is hereby established at the rate of speed indicated. No person shall operate a motor vehicle over any street within the Village at a rate of speed in excess of the rate of speed indicated.
No person shall drive a vehicle at a speed in excess of that indicated in Schedule III (§ 235-63), attached to and made a part of this chapter, in the areas described in said schedule, during school days between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m.
The streets or parts of streets described in Schedule IV (§ 235-64), attached to and made a part of this chapter, are hereby designated as one-way streets in the direction indicated.
No person shall make a U-turn on any of the streets or parts of streets described in Schedule V (§ 235-65), attached to and made a part of this chapter.
No person shall make a turn of the kind designated (left, right, all) at any of the locations described in Schedule VI (§ 235-66), attached to and made a part of this chapter.
No person shall make a right turn when facing a steady red signal (stop indication) at any of the locations described in Schedule VII (§ 235-67), attached to and made a part of this chapter.
All persons shall make a turn of the kind designated (left, right) at the locations described in Schedule VIII (§ 235-68), attached to and made a part of this chapter.
The streets or parts of streets described in Schedule IX (§ 235-69), attached to and made a part of this chapter, are hereby designated as through streets.
The intersections described in Schedule X (§ 235-70), attached to and made a part of this chapter, are hereby designated as stop intersections.
The intersections described in Schedule XI (§ 235-71), attached to and made a part of this chapter, are hereby designated as yield intersections.
The streets or parts of streets designated in Schedule XII (§ 235-72), attached to and made a part of this chapter, shall have lanes reserved for the use of vehicles as provided in said schedule.
A.
MOTOR VEHICLE
POINT OF DESTINATION
SHORTEST ROUTE
TRUCK ROUTE STREET
TRUCK ROUTE SYSTEM
The following words and phrases, when used in this
section, shall, for the purposes of this section, have the meanings
respectively ascribed to them as follows:
Any motorized vehicle lawfully permitted to operate on the
highways of New York State, and shall include not only the motorized
portion of such vehicle but also any and all trailers, cargo-holds,
and/or other appurtenances thereto being pulled, carried or otherwise
transported by said motorized portion.
The location on a given street or highway where any portion
of a vehicle's load or cargo is to be loaded and/or unloaded.
That particular street or combination of intersecting streets
which, when compared to any other available route or routes, traverses
the least distance as measured from the truck route system to the
point of destination (or between other points of measurement as may
be specifically provided for hereunder).
Any particular individual street or portion thereof, as designated in § 235-74, which comprises any portion of the truck route system.
The entire network of truck route streets designated in § 235-74.
B.
The streets and highways or portions thereof set forth in Schedule XIV (§ 235-74) are hereby designated as and they shall constitute the Village of Horseheads truck route system.
C.
Motor vehicles in excess of 10,000 pounds prohibited.
(1)
No person, firm or corporation shall drive or operate
or cause to be driven or operated a motor vehicle, including vans,
trucks, tractors, tractor-trailer combinations, tractor-semitrailer
combinations, or tractor-trailer-semitrailer combinations, having
a total gross weight, including load, in excess of 10,000 pounds on,
along or through any Village street, except as further provided in
this section.
(2)
Vehicles specifically exempted. The following vehicles
shall be exempt from the prohibitions of this section:
(a)
Emergency and municipal vehicles. Due to the
nature of their work and the need for unhindered access to all Village
streets, authorized emergency vehicles and vehicles owned or operated
by a government or municipality, which would otherwise be regulated
by this section, are hereby specifically exempted from the application
of this section. This shall include but is not limited to the following
municipal vehicles: fire vehicles, police vehicles, highway, sanitation
and public works vehicles, and vehicles of any agent of a municipality,
provided that such agent's vehicles are then engaged in official municipal
business.
(b)
Recreation vehicles. Those vehicles commonly
referred to as “recreational vehicles” or “RV's”
and which would otherwise be regulated by this section, including
but not limited to house coaches, motor homes, campers, and boat/trailer
combinations.
(c)
Single-rear-axle motor vehicles: those motor
vehicles containing no more than one rear axle located behind the
driver's seat with a gross weight, including load, in excess of 10,000
pounds, provided that said single-rear-axle motor vehicle is proceeding
to or from a point of destination within the boundaries of the Village
of Horseheads. However, if said single-rear-axle motor vehicle has
no point of destination within the boundaries of the Village of Horseheads
(i.e., through traffic), said vehicle must proceed as provided herein
utilizing the truck route system.
D.
Regulation of motor vehicles in excess of 10,000 pounds.
(1)
This section shall not be construed to prevent the
delivery or pickup of merchandise or other property along the Village
streets from which such vehicles and combinations are otherwise excluded,
provided the regulations and requirements of this section are complied
with.
(a)
Point of destination on truck route street.
If the point of destination is on a truck route street, the driver
shall proceed within the truck route system to the point of destination,
and, upon leaving said point of destination, the driver shall proceed
within the truck route system until such time as the driver may lawfully
deviate from said truck route system as provided herein.
(b)
Point of destination on nontruck route street.
If the point of destination is located on a street which does not
comprise a part of the truck route system, the driver shall proceed
within the truck route system until it intersects with the shortest
route, and then the driver shall proceed on said shortest route to
the point of destination. Upon leaving said point of destination,
the driver shall proceed on the shortest route to the truck route
system and then shall proceed within the truck route system until
such time as the driver may lawfully deviate from said truck route
system as provided herein.
(c)
Multiple points of destination. If the driver
has more than one point of destination within the Village, then the
driver shall proceed within the truck route system to the shortest
route for any one of the points of destination, which shall then be
known as the current point of destination. The driver shall then proceed
on the shortest route to said current point of destination, and, upon
leaving said current point of destination, the driver shall proceed
on the shortest route as compared between the current point of destination
to the driver's next point of destination and the current point of
destination to the truck route. Each successive point of destination
shall then be known as the current point of destination for the purposes
of determining the shortest route. If there are two or more possible
shortest routes, the driver must proceed on one of them.
(2)
Permitted delivery or pickup of merchandise or other
property along the streets from which the aforesaid vehicles or combinations
are otherwise prohibited shall not include delivery or pickup for
the following purposes: delivering messages, dining, visitation, travel
to places of abode, or other similar acts not a necessary and vital
part of a merchandise or other property delivery and pickup business.
E.
Length of stay. Prohibited vehicles shall remain on
such prohibited streets for a period of time no longer than necessary
and reasonable to make such delivery or to complete a loading of such
vehicle.
F.
Enforcement. A law enforcement or police officer shall
have the authority to require any person driving or in control of
any commercial vehicle proceeding over a Village street which is not
part of the truck route system to proceed to any public or private
scale available for the purpose of weighing and determining whether
this section has been complied with.
No person shall operate or park any vehicle
on any street, municipal parking lot, or portion thereof for the primary
purpose of advertising.
No person shall drive into any street which
is barricaded for the purpose of preventing the use of the street
by vehicle traffic, and no person shall destroy, damage, remove, tamper
with or fail to observe any barricades, signs, traffic cones or lights
which have been placed on the right-of-way of the street for any reason
which the Village Manager, Chief of Police or Director of Public Works
may deem proper.
It shall be unlawful for any person or persons
to engage in any sports, ballplaying, or games of any kind in the
streets or municipal parking lots of the Village.
Upon such streets as are divided by a parkway,
grass plot, or similar condition, drivers of vehicles shall keep to
the right of such a division except when otherwise directed by an
officer, signs, signals, or markings.
A funeral composed entirely or partially of
a procession of vehicles shall be identified as such by means of a
sign with the word “funeral” attached to both the front
and last vehicles with similar identifying devices in the intervening
vehicles as may be reasonable. Each driver in a funeral or other procession
shall keep as near to the right edge of the roadway as is feasible
and follow the vehicle ahead as closely as is practicable and safe.
At an intersection where a traffic control device is present or operating,
the driver of the first vehicle in a funeral or other procession shall
be the only one required to stop or obey the device before proceeding
through the intersection.
No vehicle containing inanimate contents subject
to being blown therefrom shall be driven or moved upon any of the
streets in the Village unless the exposed contents of the vehicle
is enclosed with a protective cover to prevent the contents from escaping
therefrom.
No person shall drive a vehicle across, over
or upon a curb or sidewalk along any street, except within the area
and at those places where there has been lawfully permitted and constructed
an entrance to a parking lot or private road or driveway, or except
in those cases where it is reasonably necessary to do so in making
a delivery of a heavy material to the adjacent property and then only
with the permission and consent of the abutting property owner, and
when effective measures have been taken to protect the curb and sidewalk
from damage.
The provisions of this article shall not apply
to operators actually engaged in work upon a street or highway closed
to travel or under construction or repair, to officers and other municipal
personnel when engaged in the performance of public duties, nor to
drivers of emergency vehicles when operating in an emergency and in
performance of public duties when the nature of the work of any of
these necessitates a departure from any section of this article. These
exceptions shall not, however, protect the driver of any vehicle from
the consequences of reckless disregard of the safety of others.
A.
When traffic control signals are not in place or not
operational, the driver of a vehicle shall yield the right-of-way,
slowing down or stopping if necessary, to a pedestrian crossing the
street within a crosswalk on the street upon which the vehicle is
traveling.
B.
Whenever any vehicle is stopped at a marked crosswalk,
or any unmarked crosswalk at an intersection to permit a pedestrian
to cross the street, the driver of any other vehicle approaching from
the rear shall not overtake and pass such stopped vehicle.
C.
No vehicle shall enter a marked crosswalk until there
is sufficient space beyond the crosswalk to accommodate such vehicle.
D.
The driver of a vehicle emerging from or entering
a private road, parking lot, or driveway shall yield the right-of-way
to any pedestrian approaching on any sidewalk extending across such
private road, parking lot, or driveway.
