[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Board of the Town of Lancaster 3-16-1992 by L.L. No. 1-1992 (Ch. 35 of the 1966 Codification). Amendments noted where applicable.]
This chapter shall be known as "Local Law No. 1 of the Year 1992 Providing for Traffic Regulation at Off-Street Parking Areas in the Town of Lancaster."
In order to secure safety and protect persons and property from fire, certain off-street parking areas and access roads within the Town of Lancaster, outside of the Villages of Lancaster and Depew, shall be regulated as hereinafter provided.
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Words used in the singular shall include the plural. Words used herein shall imply their usual and customary meanings, unless given specific meanings herein.
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As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
FIRE LANE
An area near or around the perimeter of a building or on an access road thereto within or on which parking and standing are prohibited, and includes those designated by the Town Board pursuant to the Chapter 350, Vehicle and Traffic, of the Code of the Town of Lancaster.
OFF-STREET PARKING AREA
An area of real property improved with one or more buildings which are designed to accommodate the parking and standing of motor vehicles and which shall include those areas more particularly described in Chapter 400, Zoning, Article VII, § 400-27E(1)(a), of the Code of the Town of Lancaster, with the exception of Subsection E(1)(a)[6] and [14][1] therein contained.
OWNER
Includes, in addition to its usual and customary meaning, a person, lessee, receiver, trustee, assignee or other person or entity operating and/or exercising control over an off-street parking area..
PARK or 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.
PERSON
A natural person, firm, copartnership, association or corporation.
STAND or 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.
VEHICLE
Any and every device in, upon or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway, except devices manned by human power.
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Editor's Note: So in original; such subsections no longer exist.
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The owner of an off-street parking area, the Chief of Police or the Chief of the Fire Department within whose jurisdiction the off-street parking area is located may submit a written request that such off-street parking area be made subject to regulation hereunder to the Town Clerk. Upon receipt of the request, the Town Clerk shall refer it to the Town Board. The Town Board may require the applicant to submit additional information as it deems necessary. The Town Board may submit the proposal to other public agencies and submit it to the owner, where the request comes from another source, for additional advice and recommendations.
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Whenever a new off-street parking area is constructed or an existing one is enlarged, the Town Board may make it subject to regulation under this law without request.
The Town Board shall hold a public hearing to determine whether an existing or proposed off-street parking area shall be subject to regulation under this law.
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After the hearing, the Town Board may establish one or more fire lanes in and upon the off-street parking area if it determines that it is necessary to secure safety and protect persons and property from fire.
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The Town Board shall direct the owner of an existing or proposed off-street parking area to erect signs and provide pavement markings necessary to designate the fire lanes established.
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Fire lanes in existing off-street parking areas shall not be located so as to eliminate existing parking spaces.
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The Town Board and/or Building Inspector may adopt rules and regulations as to the number, location and type of signs, devices and pavement markings it deems necessary to carry out the purposes of this law.
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No person shall stand or park a vehicle in the fire lane as so established.
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Removal.
(1) 
Any vehicle may be removed and stored at the order of the Fire Department and/or the Police Department, if it is:
(a) 
Parked in the fire lane at any time.
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Parked, abandoned or found unattended in an off-street parking area or access road during a snowstorm, flood, fire or other public emergency where it constitutes an obstruction to traffic or is located where standing or parking is prohibited.
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Any vehicle removed or stored pursuant to the provisions of this section shall be impounded until the owner or operator pays the reasonable cost of removal and storage, which charge shall be in addition to all other penalties under this law.
Any sign, device or pavement marking to comply with or carry out any order, rule or regulation adopted pursuant to this chapter shall be erected and maintained by the owner. Failure to erect any such sign, device or marking within the time established therefor by the Town Board, or failure to thereafter maintain it in accordance with the direction of the Police Department, shall constitute a violation of this chapter.
Each violation of § 245-8 of this chapter shall be an offense punishable by a term of imprisonment not exceeding 15 days or a fine not exceeding $250, or both. Each violation of 245-7 of this chapter shall be an offense punishable by a term of imprisonment not exceeding five days or a fine not exceeding $100, or both.
If any section, clause or provision of this chapter or the application thereof to any persons is adjudged invalid, the adjudication shall not affect other sections, clauses or provisions or the application thereof which can be sustained or given effect without the invalid section, clause or provision or application, and to this end the various sections, clauses or provisions of this chapter are declared to be severable.
This chapter shall take effect after publication and filing as required by law.