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Editor's Note: An ordinance enacted February 21, 1973, repealed former Sections 13-20 through 13-26, derived from and ordinance of February 6, 1950, § 3 through 9 and an ordinance of February 4, 1952, § 2, and added new Sections 13-20 through 13-22.
State law references: Authority of city to create agency for control of vehicular and pedestrian traffic, § 20, Subdivision 32, of the General City Law.
[Ord. of 2-6-1950, § 2; Ord. of 2-4-1952, § 1; Ord. of 12-17-1973, § 1; Ord. of 3-7-1974, § 1]
There is hereby established and created in the City of Poughkeepsie a commission to be known as the "Traffic Commission." The Traffic Commission shall consist of five members, to wit: the City Administrator, the officer in the Police Department assigned to traffic control and the other members to be appointed by the Mayor. The term of office of the City Administrator and the officer in the Police Department assigned to traffic control shall terminate at the expiration of the term of his municipal office or employment; the term of the office of the other three members of the Traffic Commission shall terminate at the expiration of the term of office of the Mayor appointing and designating such members.
[Ord. of 2-6-1950, § 3; Ord. of 2-21-1973]
The Traffic Commission, within the confines of budgetary limits and appropriations and to the extent moneys are available therefor, may employ and retain the services of traffic and planning engineers, the duty of said traffic and planning engineers to advise and consult with the Traffic Commission and the Common Council of the City of Poughkeepsie and to survey and analyze the traffic conditions and problems of the city, to assist in the formulation of traffic and parking plans and to recommend the enactment of specific ordinances, rules and regulations to prohibit, limit, regulate and control traffic upon the streets of the city.
[Ord. of 2-6-1950, § 4, 5; Ord. of 2-21-1973]
The Traffic Commission is hereby empowered and authorized to make advisory recommendations to the Common Council of the City of Poughkeepsie concerning temporary ordinances, rules and regulations to prohibit, limit, regulate or control traffic upon the streets of the city.
[Ord. of 2-6-1950, § 6; Ord. of 2-21-1973; Ord. of 5-6-1974, § 1]
The Common Council shall have exclusive power to enact and make ordinances, rules and regulations to prohibit, limit, regulate or control traffic upon the streets of the city and shall not be bound by any recommendations of the Traffic Commission. The Common Council shall have the power to enact and make temporary ordinances, rules and regulations which shall by their terms remain in effect for a period of 90 days from the date of the adoption. Prior to the expiration of the said ninety-day period, the Traffic Commission shall submit to the Common Council a recommendation concerning the temporary ordinance pursuant to Section 13-21 of this Chapter and the Common Council shall approve said ordinance in permanent form or reject the same.