A.
Definitions of words and phrases.
(1)
The words and phrases used in this chapter shall, for the purposes
of this chapter, have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by
Article 1 of the Vehicle and Traffic Law of the State of New York.
(2)
COMMERCIAL VEHICLE
CURBLINE
FEDERAL HOLIDAYS
PUBLIC PARKING LOT
The following words and phrases, which are not defined by Article
1 of the Vehicle and Traffic Law of the State of New York, shall have
the meanings respectively ascribed to them in this section for the
purposes of this chapter:
Includes every type of motor-driven vehicle exceeding 6,000
pounds' gross weight designed and used for commercial purposes, such
as the transportation of goods, wares, equipment and merchandise,
including, without limitation, trucks, truck tractors, trailers, semitrailers,
omnibuses and school buses and every vehicle designed or used for
commercial purposes which is without motor power and designed to be
drawn by another vehicle and attached to the towing vehicle, and every
motor vehicle designed and used for commercial purposes for drawing
other vehicles which are so constructed as not to carry any load thereon
except any such vehicles as are run on rails or tracks and vehicles
of the passenger motor vehicle type.
[Added 4-25-1991 by L.L. No. 2-1991]
The prolongation of the lateral line of a curb or, in the
absence of a curb, the lateral boundary line of the roadway.
New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day,
Thanksgiving and Christmas shall be considered federal holidays.
A plot or parcel of land or building owned and/or leased
by the Town, not including highways, upon or within which the parking
of vehicles is regulated by signs and/or parking meters.
B.
Word usage; interpretation.
(1)
Official time standard. Whenever certain hours are named herein or
on traffic control devices, they shall mean the time standard which
is in current use in this state.
(2)
Measurements. Any linear measurements specified for various regulations
contained in this chapter shall be deemed to be approximate to the
extent that such measurements and the regulation to which they pertain
shall not be affected or altered in any way by the widening of a street,
by the construction of curbs, gutters or sidewalks or by any other
action which might tend to obliterate the point from which such measurements
were originally made. Unless otherwise indicated, measurements shall
be made from the nearest curbline of the street referred to in the
location description or, if there is no curbline, from the nearest
edge.
The Town of North Castle Police Department shall provide for
the installation and maintenance of traffic control devices when and
as required under the provisions of this chapter, to make effective
the provisions of this chapter, and may install and maintain such
additional traffic control devices as it may deem necessary to regulate,
warn or guide traffic under the Vehicle and Traffic Law of the State
of New York, subject to the provisions of §§ 1682 and
1684 of that law.
A.
For the purpose of maintaining an accurate record of all regulations adopted under the provisions of this chapter, there is hereby established a system of schedules, appearing as Article VII of this chapter, in which shall be entered all regulations after adoption. Such schedules shall be deemed a part of the section to which they refer. All regulations shall be adopted with reference to the appropriate schedule as indicated in the various sections of this chapter.
B.
Regulations shall be adopted by the Town Board, in accordance with
provisions of the Town Law and the Vehicle and Traffic Law, or by
an officer or agency authorized by the Town Board to adopt regulations
pursuant to § 1603 of the Vehicle and Traffic Law.
Every person convicted of an offense against any provision of
this chapter which is not an offense against any provision of the
Vehicle and Traffic Law of the State of New York shall be deemed guilty
of a traffic infraction and shall, for a first conviction thereof,
be punished by a fine of not more than $50 or by imprisonment for
not more than 15 days, or by both such fine and imprisonment; for
a second such conviction within 18 months thereafter, such person
shall be punished by a fine of not more than $100 or by imprisonment
for not more than 45 days, or by both such fine and imprisonment;
upon a third or subsequent conviction within 18 months after the first
conviction, such person shall be punished by a fine of not more than
$250 or by imprisonment for not more than 90 days, or by both such
fine and imprisonment.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Original § 196-4.1 of the 1987 Code,
Local surcharge for traffic violations, added 11-22-2004 by L.L. No.
9-2004, which immediately followed this section, was repealed 1-10-2005
by L.L. No. 2-2005.
A.
Except those parts, if any, which are subject to approval under § 1684
of the Vehicle and Traffic Law of the State of New York and § 46
of the Highway Law of the State of New York, this chapter and any
regulations adopted hereunder shall take effect as provided by law.
B.
Any part or parts of this chapter and any regulations adopted hereunder
which are subject to approval under § 1684 of the Vehicle
and Traffic Law and § 46 of the Highway Law of the State
of New York shall take effect from and after the day on which approval
in writing is received from both the New York State Department of
Transportation and the New York State Department of Public Works.
