This chapter shall be known as and may be cited as the "Town
of Saugerties Fire Lane Law."
The purpose of this chapter is to regulate the stopping, standing
or parking of any vehicle at any time in any area hereinafter established
by the Town Board of the Town of Saugerties or its designee as a fire
lane in order to prevent the obstruction or interference with the
ingress and egress of emergency vehicles for the protection of persons
and property.
As used in this chapter, unless the context or subject matter
otherwise requires, the following words shall have the following definitions:
AUTHORIZED EMERGENCY VEHICLE
Every ambulance, police vehicle, fire vehicle, civil defense
emergency vehicle and ordnance disposal vehicle of the armed forces
of the United States.
COMMERCIAL VEHICLE
Any vehicle engaged in the delivery and/or loading of merchandise,
supplies or other material, or the rendering of services to stores
or business establishments.
EMERGENCY OPERATION
The operation or parking of an authorized emergency vehicle,
when such vehicle is engaged in transporting a sick or injured person,
pursuing an actual or suspected violator of the law, or responding
to or working or assisting at the scene of an accident, authorized
emergency training exercise, disaster, police call, alarm of fire
or other emergency. Emergency operation shall not include returning
from such service.
FIRE LANE
Any zone or area established as such pursuant to this chapter.
PARKING
The standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise
than temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in
loading or unloading merchandise or passengers.
RESIDENT
A person who resides in the Town of Saugerties or pays real
property taxes to the Town of Saugerties.
STANDING
The stopping of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise
than temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in
receiving or discharging passengers.
STOPPING
When prohibited, means any halting, even momentarily, of
a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except when necessary to avoid
conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the directions of
a police officer or traffic-control sign or signal.
TOWN
The Town of Saugerties situated in Ulster County in the State
of New York.
VEHICLE
Every device in, upon, or by which any person or property
is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway except devices moved
by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks.
This chapter applies only to fire lanes established by the Town
Board or its designee pursuant to this chapter or any amendment thereto.
The stopping, standing or parking of any vehicle in any area
established by the Town Board of the Town of Saugerties or its designee
and marked "Fire Lane" within the geographical limits of the Town
of Saugerties is hereby prohibited unless herein and hereafter expressly
permitted.
The prohibitions contained in §
122-5 hereof shall not apply to:
A. Vehicles parked at loading docks or service entrances to stores or
business establishments while said commercial vehicles are actively
engaged in the delivery and/or loading of merchandise, supplies or
other material, or the rendering of services to such stores or business
establishments.
B. Authorized emergency vehicles engaged in emergency operation within
the particular location of the fire lane.
C. All public transit buses or any other services to persons or property
within the particular location of the fire lane.
For purposes of this chapter, the "designee of the Town Board"
shall be the chief of the fire department whose company is primarily
responsible for the immediate vicinity where the violation occurs.