This article is enacted pursuant to New York State Vehicle and Traffic Law § 1660-a, New York State Town Law § 130, Subdivision 15, and New York State Municipal Home Rule Law § 10.
[Adopted 2-5-2024 by L.L. No. 2-2024]
As used in this article, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
The property owner, the fire chief of the fire department serving the designated area or the police department serving the designated area.
For the purpose of this article, "designated areas" shall mean parking areas and driveways of a hospital, office building or office building complex or place of public assembly, or parking area of a shopping center, or the parking areas and driveways of facilities owned or leased by a not-for-profit corporation, or the parking areas, driveways and private streets or roadways of a private apartment house complex, private condominium complex or cooperative apartment complex, or the parking areas, private streets, roadways or driveways of mobile home parks or manufactured home parks, or the parking areas and driveways of a fire station, or the parking areas, private streets, roadways or driveways of an industrial park or industrial complex.
The Town of Monroe, excluding the area within any incorporated Village within the Town.
A.
Upon submission of a written request by an authorized person, the Town Board may adopt a resolution approving such written request and authorize the regulation and control of designated areas in the Town as set forth in § 51-27B. With respect to such written requests, the Town Board may, by resolution, approve, deny or approve with modifications any such written request.
B.
Subject to the authorization set forth in the resolution of approval, the Town Superintendent of Highways, the police department or police agency serving such designated area or the Chief of the Fire Department serving the designated area shall be authorized to perform the following functions in the designated area:
(1)
Order stop signs, flashing signals or yield signs erected at entrance or exit locations to any such area or designate any intersection in such area as a stop intersection or as a yield intersection and order like signs or signals at one or more entrances to such intersection.
(2)
Regulate traffic in any such area, including regulation by means of traffic-control signals.
(3)
Establish maximum speed limits in any such area at not less than 15 miles per hour.
(4)
Prohibit or regulate the turning of vehicles or specified types of vehicles at intersections or other designated locations in any such area.
(5)
Regulate the crossing of any roadway in any such area by pedestrians.
(6)
Designate any separate roadway in any such area for one-way traffic.
(7)
Prohibit, regulate, restrict or limit the stopping, standing or parking of vehicles in specified areas of any such area.
(8)
Designate safety zones in any such area.
(9)
Provide for the removal and storage of vehicles parked or abandoned in any such area during snowstorms, floods, fires or other public emergencies, or found unattended in any such area, 1) where they constitute an obstruction to traffic or 2) where stopping, standing or parking is prohibited, and for the payment of reasonable charges for such removal and storage by the owner or operator of any such vehicle.
(10)
To adopt such additional reasonable rules and regulations with respect to traffic and parking in a parking area as local conditions may require for the safety and convenience of the public or of the users of the parking areas.
C.
Nothing herein shall require the Town Board to approve regulation of designated areas and the Town Board may impose reasonable conditions on the approval and authorization of such regulation.
D.
Nothing herein shall be interpreted as authorizing regulation of any areas other than the designated areas defined herein and set forth in the New York State Vehicle and Traffic Law § 1660-a.
A.
It shall constitute a traffic infraction within the meaning of Vehicle and Traffic Law § 1800 for any person or vehicle that fails to comply with traffic control signs, signals, or markings installed pursuant to this article.
B.
Any person who defaces, damages, obstructs or otherwise impedes the visibility of signs, markings or signals installed pursuant to this article shall be guilty of a violation.
A.
Every person convicted of a traffic infraction for a violation of any of the above provisions of this chapter, adopted pursuant to § 1660-a of the Vehicle and Traffic Law of the State of New York, shall for the first conviction thereof be punishable by a fine not to exceed $50 and for a second or subsequent conviction shall be punishable by a fine not to exceed $100.
B.
Every person convicted of a violation of § 51-28B shall for the first conviction thereof be punishable by a fine not to exceed $250 and for a second or subsequent conviction shall be punishable by a fine not to exceed $500. Nothing herein shall be deemed to preclude, in lieu of prosecution under this section, a prosecution for criminal mischief, criminal tampering or any other related offense under the New York State Penal Law arising out of the acts described herein.