[Amended 11-12-2002 by L.L. No. 2-2002]
A.
Traffic control signals shall be installed and operated at the intersection of those streets and shall be of a type described in Schedule I (§ 145-36).
B.
The Village Board and/or Superintendent of Streets is hereby authorized
to place and maintain official traffic control devices when and as
required under this chapter to make effective the provisions of said
chapter and to carry out and enforce all duties imposed on or required
by him by this chapter and may place and maintain such additional
traffic control devices as deemed necessary to regulate, warn or guide
traffic.
C.
The Village Board is hereby authorized and empowered to make and
adopt regulations in regards to those matters in which it is specifically
authorized by this chapter to make regulations or determinations.
D.
All traffic control devices installed in the Village of Coxsackie
shall conform to the New York State Department of Transportation Manual
of Uniform Traffic – Control Devices. All signs and signals
required hereunder for a particular purpose shall, so far as practicable,
be uniform as to type and location throughout the Village. All traffic
control devices so erected and not inconsistent with the provisions
of state law or this chapter shall be deemed official traffic control
devices.
E.
The driver of any vehicle shall obey the instructions of any official
traffic control devices applicable thereto placed in accordance with
the provisions of this chapter unless otherwise directed by a police
officer, subject to the exceptions granted the driver of an authorized
emergency vehicle.
F.
No provisions of this chapter for which official traffic control
devices are required shall be enforced against an alleged violation
if, at the time and place of the alleged violation, an official traffic
control devices is not in proper position and sufficiently legible
to be seen by an ordinarily observant person. Whenever a particular
section does not state that official traffic control devices are required,
such sections shall be effective though no devices are erected or
in place.
G.
Whenever official traffic control devices are placed in position
approximately conforming to the requirements of this chapter or to
the Vehicle and Traffic Law of the State of New York, such devices
shall be presumed to have been so placed by the official act or direction
of lawful authority, unless the contrary shall be established by competent
evidence.
H.
The Police Department may authorize the temporary placing of official
traffic control devices when required by an emergency. The Police
Department shall notify the Mayor of such action as soon thereafter
as is practical.
I.
No person shall fail or refuse to comply with any lawful order or
directive of any Police Officer or other person duly empowered to
regulate traffic.
The streets or parts of streets described in Schedule II (§ 145-37) are hereby designated as one-way streets, and vehicles shall proceed only in the direction indicated.
No person shall make a turn of the kind designated (left, right, all) at any of the locations described in Schedule III (§ 145-38).
A.
The turning of vehicles so as to proceed in the opposite direction (otherwise known as a "U-turn") is hereby prohibited on any of the streets or parts of streets described in Schedule IV (§ 145-39).
A.
The Village Board and/or a traffic engineer is hereby authorized,
on the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation, to designate
gross vehicle weight limits on any street in the Village, and he shall
place and maintain official traffic control devices to indicate such
restrictions.
B.
The Village Board and/or a traffic engineer is hereby authorized,
on the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation, to designate
vehicle size and class restrictions on any street in the Village,
and he shall place and maintain official traffic control devices to
indicate such restrictions.
C.
It is required that all vehicles operated within the Village of Coxsackie
be in good and safe operating condition, and each shall be operated
only:
(1)
While having a valid New York State certificate of inspection, or
the equivalent thereof for any vehicle registered outside of New York
State, affixed on the vehicle in the proper location; and
(2)
While in full compliance with Article 9 of the Vehicle and Traffic
Law of the State of New York, as amended, which article is fully incorporated
herein by reference; and
(3)
While in full compliance with Article 10 of the Vehicle and Traffic
Law of the State of New York, as amended, which article is fully incorporated
herein by reference; and
(4)
While in full compliance with Article 6 of the Transportation Law
of the State of New York, as amended, which article is fully incorporated
herein by reference; and
(5)
While in full compliance with Article 21 of the Tax Law of the State
of New York, as amended, which article is fully incorporated herein
by reference; and
(6)
While properly registered in accordance with Article 14 of the Vehicle
and Traffic Law of the State of New York, as amended, which article
is fully incorporated herein by reference; and
(7)
While in full compliance with Article 49 of the Code of Federal Regulations,
as amended, which article is fully incorporated herein by reference;
and
D.
No vehicle may operate within the Village of Coxsackie if that vehicle
has been determined to be in an unsafe condition by a certified New
York State inspector or by a person certified by the State of New
York to conduct such inspections.
E.
No vehicle may operate within the Village of Coxsackie if it has
been determined that the vehicle should be put out of service by a
New York State Department of Transportation Inspector.
F.
It shall be presumed that a violation of this section found through
an inspection of a vehicle requested by an officer of the Police Department
of the Village of Coxsackie and inspected in the presence of any officer
thereof, after the vehicle was involved in an accident, was a violation
at the time of the accident. Any such inspection shall take place
only after at least two days' notice is given to the owner of the
vehicle, and the owner and/or person or persons he shall designate
shall have the right to attend the inspection.
The intersections described in Schedule VI (§ 145-41) are hereby designated as school stop intersections, and traffic shall stop as indicated at such times as "Full Stop – School Crossing" signs are displayed.
The intersections described in Schedule VII (§ 145-42) are hereby designated as yield intersections, and yield signs shall be erected as indicated.
Thirty miles per hour is hereby established as the maximum speed at which vehicles may proceed within the corporate limits of the Village, except that speed limits for vehicles proceeding on or along those streets or parts of streets described in Schedule VIII (§ 145-43) shall be as indicated in said schedule.
A.
No person shall operate any motor vehicle in excess of 15 miles per
hour within a school zone during the school noon hour, school recess
or while children are going to and from school during school hours,
when such limits and zone are properly signposted as directed by the
Village Board.
B.
Said school speed zones shall include that portion of the highway
which is signposted to designate said zone as such and that portion
of the highway adjacent to a school building and extending not more
than 300 feet along such highway in either direction from the building
line of a school abutting on such highway.
A.
Trucks over five tons excluded. Trucks, commercial vehicles, tractors and tractor-trailer combinations in excess of five tons are hereby excluded from the streets or parts of streets described in Schedule IX (§ 145-44).
B.
The regulations established in this section shall not be construed
to prevent the delivery or pickup of merchandise or other property
along the streets from which such vehicles and combinations are excluded.
No person shall operate or drive a motor vehicle, nor permit
another person to operate or drive a motor vehicle:
A.
Unless the person driving or operating the motor vehicle is duly
and properly licensed with a license which is in full force and effect
and valid, pursuant to Articles 19 and 20 of the Vehicle and Traffic
Law of the State of New York, as amended, which articles are fully
incorporated herein by reference; and
B.
Unless in full compliance with Article 33 of the Vehicle and Traffic
Law of the State of New York, as amended, which article is fully incorporated
herein by reference.
In accordance with the provisions of § 1111(d)(2) of the Vehicle and Traffic Law, no person shall make a right turn when facing a steady red signal at the locations designated in Schedule XI (§ 145-46).
