As used in this article, the following terms shall mean and
include:
The Village of Great Neck and, with regard to property owned
by the Great Neck School District, both the Village and such school
district; and, with regard to property owned by the Great Neck Park
District, both the Village and such park district. When more than
one entity is a local authority, either may act independently.
Every vehicle which is or is designed to be operated or driven
upon a public highway which is propelled by any power other than muscular
power. For the purposes of this article, the term "motor vehicle"
shall exclude fire and police vehicles, other than ambulances, and
shall exclude all ambulances when they are actually being used in
the performance of emergency services.
An employee of a lawful authority. When such person is other
than a Village employee, such employee only shall be deemed a traffic
officer as to property owned by such person's employer.
The person named as “owner” on the state registration
of the motor vehicle, whether such person is the owner, lessee, or
a secured lender.
[Added 10-15-2013 by L.L.
No. 11-2013]
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.
An officer of the Nassau County Police Department.
Any highway, road, street, avenue, alley, public parking
lot, public place, public driveway, or other public way, or other
public property within the Village.
Any area of property owned by a lawful authority used as
a means of motor vehicle travel, access, or egress, and/or for the
parking, standing, or stopping of motor vehicles.
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 or loading or unloading material.
When prohibited, 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 other traffic officer or traffic control signal.
All signs, signals, markings, and other devices placed or
erected by a lawful authority for the purpose of regulating, warning,
or guiding traffic. For clarity, the pavement markings on streets
and in public parking lots designating specific parking spaces are
traffic control devices.
A.
No person shall park, stand, or stop a motor vehicle upon any public
highway in violation of any traffic control device, unless otherwise
directed by a police officer or other traffic officer.
B.
No person shall park, stand, or stop a motor vehicle upon any public
highway in violation of any lawful instruction of any police officer
or other traffic officer.
C.
No person shall park, stand, or stop a motor vehicle:
(1)
On the roadway side of any vehicle parked, standing, or stopped at
the edge or curb of a street;
(2)
On a sidewalk;
(3)
In a bus stop;
(4)
Within an intersection, except when permitted by official signs or
parking meters on the side of a street opposite a street which intersects
but does not cross such street;
(5)
On a crosswalk;
(6)
Between a safety zone and the adjacent curb or within 30 feet of
points on the curb immediately opposite the ends of a safety zone,
unless a different distance is indicated by official signs, markings,
or parking meters;
(7)
Alongside or opposite any street excavation or obstruction when parking,
standing, or stopping would obstruct traffic;
(8)
Within 15 feet of a fire hydrant except when such motor vehicle is
attended by an individual licensed by the State of New York to operate
such motor vehicle who is seated in the front operator's seat
and who can immediately move such motor vehicle in case of emergency,
unless a different distance is indicated by official signs, markings,
or parking meters, and, in no event, when such motor vehicle impairs
or hinders the access of a fire vehicle to a fire hydrant while such
fire vehicle is engaged in an emergency operation;
(9)
On a street or in a public parking lot that does not have a current
registration affixed in the location required by New York State law;
(10)
On a street or in a public parking lot that does not have a
current inspection sticker affixed in the location required by New
York State law; or
(11)
On a street or in a public parking lot that does not have a
current and unobstructed license plate securely affixed in the location
required by New York State law.
D.
No person shall park or stand a motor vehicle, whether occupied or
not, except momentarily to pick up or discharge a passenger or passengers:
(1)
In front of a public or private driveway;
(2)
Within 20 feet of a crosswalk at an intersection, unless a different
distance is indicated by official signs, markings, or parking meters;
(3)
Within 30 feet upon the approach to any flashing signal, stop, or
yield sign or traffic control signal located at the side of the roadway,
unless a different distance is indicated by official signs, markings,
or parking meters;
(4)
Within 20 feet of the driveway entrance to any fire station and,
when on the side of the street opposite to the entrance of any fire
station, within 75 feet of said entrance, when properly signposted,
unless a different distance is indicated by official signs, markings,
or parking meters; or
(5)
Alongside or obstructing a curb area which has been cut down, lowered
or constructed so as to provide accessibility to the sidewalk.
E.
Except where angle parking, standing, or stopping is authorized,
every motor vehicle parked, standing, or stopped:
(1)
Wholly upon a two-way roadway shall be so parked, standing, or stopped
with the right-hand wheels of such motor vehicle parallel to and within
12 inches of the right-hand curb or edge of the roadway; or
(2)
Wholly upon a one-way roadway shall be so parked, standing, or stopped
parallel to the curb or edge of the roadway, in the direction of authorized
traffic movement, with its right-hand wheels within 12 inches of the
right-hand curb or edge of the roadway, or its left-hand wheels within
12 inches of the left-hand curb or edge of the roadway; or
(3)
Partly upon a roadway shall be so parked, standing, or stopped parallel
to the curb or edge of the roadway. On a one-way roadway such motor
vehicle shall be facing in the direction of authorized traffic movement;
on a two-way roadway such motor vehicle shall be facing in the direction
of authorized traffic movement on that portion of the roadway on which
the motor vehicle rests.
G.
The Village may remove and store motor vehicles parked, standing,
or stopped in the public parking lots, streets, and other public areas
during snowstorms, floods, fires, or other public emergencies, or
otherwise found abandoned or unattended, where they constitute an
obstruction to traffic or where parking, standing, and/or stopping
is prohibited, and provide for the payment of such reasonable charges
for such removal and storage by the owner or operator of any such
vehicle as shall be determined from time to time by resolution of
the Board of Trustees.
H.
When a
motor vehicle is parked, standing, or stopped in violation of this
chapter, and there is a person operating the motor vehicle at the
time of the violation, the operator shall be guilty of such violation.
If there is no person operating the motor vehicle at the time, or
if the operator refuses to provide to the enforcement officer a valid
operator license with the operator’s name and address, the owner,
as the person responsible for the motor vehicle, shall be conclusively
deemed guilty of such violation.
[Added 10-15-2013 by L.L.
No. 11-2013]
I.
Proper
display of stickers and permits.
[Added 11-19-2013 by L.L.
No. 13-2013]
(1)
No
motor vehicle shall stop, stand, or park on any public highway or
in any public parking lot that does not have a current certificate
of inspection affixed to its windshield or other location as required
by the State of New York or such other state within which the vehicle
has been registered.
(2)
No
motor vehicle shall stop, stand, or park on any public highway or
in any public parking lot that does not have a current registration
sticker affixed to its windshield or other location as required by
the State of New York or such other state within which the vehicle
has been registered.
(3)
No
motor vehicle shall stop, stand, or park in any public parking lot
in a parking space that is designated by signage as restricted to
parking by holders of parking permits issued by the Village that does
not have a current parking permit issued by the Village for the parking
space in which it is located that is prominently and unobstructedly
displayed through its rear window. It shall be an affirmative defense
that for the particular vehicle and/or the particular parking permit
at issue, another location on the vehicle was required by or acceptable
to the Village for the display of the permit and that the permit was
prominently and unobstructedly displayed at that location on the vehicle.
J.
No person
shall park a motor vehicle on a public street or in a public parking
lot between 12:00 midnight and 6:00 a.m. when there is over three
inches of snow on that street or in that parking lot within 15 feet
of where the vehicle is parked, unless authorized by a lawful authority.
[Added 12-2-2014 by L.L. No. 13-2014]
A.
No provision of this article for which a traffic control device is
required shall be enforced against any person if at the time and place
of the alleged violation a traffic control device is not in sufficient
position and sufficiently legible to be seen by an ordinarily observant
person operating a motor vehicle upon a public highway providing notice
of the subject prohibition. Whenever a particular section does not
state that a traffic control device is required, such section shall
be effective even though no device is erected or in place.
B.
Whenever traffic control devices are sufficiently positioned and
sufficiently legible to be seen by an ordinarily observant person
operating a motor vehicle upon a public highway, such devices shall
be presumed to have been so placed by the official act or direction
of a lawful authority, unless the contrary shall be established by
the alleged violator by competent evidence.
C.
Any traffic control device that meets the then-existing New York
State standards for the placement and legibility of such device shall
be presumed to be sufficiently positioned and sufficiently legible
to be seen by an ordinarily observant person operating a motor vehicle
upon a public highway, unless the contrary shall be established by
the alleged violator by competent evidence.
D.
It shall be an affirmative defense to any alleged violation of this
article that the actions taken by the operator of the motor vehicle
were in compliance with the directions of a police officer, other
traffic officer, or traffic control device, or authorized by a lawful
authority.
[Amended 12-2-2014 by L.L. No. 13-2014]
