A.
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.
B.
CURBLINE
HOLIDAYS
OFFICIAL TIME STANDARD
PARKING METER SPACE
PARKING METER ZONE
PARKING METERS
PUBLIC PARKING LOT
VILLAGE
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:
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 Day and Christmas Day and any other bank holiday shall
be considered "holidays."
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.
The space alongside the curb in which a vehicle shall be
properly parked, which shall be indicated clearly by painted lines
or otherwise, and adjacent to which a parking meter is installed within
four feet of the front line of said space.
A designated location upon or within which the parking of
vehicles is regulated by parking meters.
Any mechanical device or meter not inconsistent with this
chapter placed or erected for the regulation of parking by authority
of this chapter.
A plot or parcel of land or building owned and/or leased
by the Village, not including highways, upon or within which the parking
of vehicles is regulated by signs and/or parking meters.
The Village of Warwick, New York.
The Village shall install and maintain 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 may be deemed necessary
to regulate, warn or guide traffic under the Vehicle and Traffic Law
of the State of New York, subject to the provisions of Sections 1682
and 1684 of that law.
Every person shall obey the instruction of any official traffic
control device applicable to him, placed in accordance with the provisions
of this chapter, unless otherwise directed by a traffic or police
officer, subject to the exceptions granted the driver of an authorized
emergency vehicle.
A.
Except when directed to proceed by a police officer, every driver of a vehicle approaching a stop sign shall stop as required by § 135-11 and after having stopped shall yield the right-of-way to any vehicle which has entered the intersection from another highway or which is approaching so closely on said highway as to constitute an immediate hazard during the time when such driver is moving across or within the intersection.
B.
The driver of a vehicle approaching a yield sign shall, in obedience to such sign, slow down to a speed reasonable for existing conditions or shall stop if necessary as provided in § 135-11 and shall yield the right-of-way to any pedestrian legally crossing the roadway on which he is driving, and to any vehicle in the intersection or approaching on another highway so closely as to constitute an immediate hazard during the time such driver is moving across or within the intersection; provided, however, that if such driver is involved in a collision with a pedestrian in a crosswalk or a vehicle in the intersection after driving past a yield sign without stopping, such collision shall be deemed prima facie evidence of his failure to yield right-of-way.
(Reserved)
