As used in this article, the following terms shall mean and include:
MOTOR VEHICLE
Every vehicle which is or is designed to be operated or driven upon a public highway which is propelled by any power other than muscular power. For the purposes of this article, the term "motor vehicle" shall exclude fire and police vehicles, other than ambulances, and shall exclude all ambulances when they are actually being used in the performance of emergency services.
OWNER
The person named as "owner" on the state registration of the motor vehicle, whether such person is the owner, lessee, or a secured lender.
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.
POLICE OFFICER
An officer of the Ballston Spa Police Department.
PUBLIC HIGHWAY
Any highway, road, street, avenue, alley, public parking lot, public place, public driveway, or other public way, or other public property within the Village.
PUBLIC PARKING LOT
Any area of property owned by the Village used as a means of motor vehicle travel, access, or egress, and/or for the parking, standing, or stopping of motor vehicles.
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 or loading or unloading material.
STOPPING
When prohibited, any halting, even momentarily, of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the directions of a police officer or other traffic officer or traffic control signal.
TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICE
All signs, signals, markings, and other devices placed or erected by the Village, the County of Saratoga, or the State of New York, of regulating, warning, or guiding traffic. For clarity, the pavement markings on streets and in public parking lots designating specific parking spaces are traffic control devices.
A. 
No person shall park, stand, or stop a motor vehicle upon any public highway in violation of any traffic control device, unless otherwise directed by a police officer or other traffic officer.
B. 
No person shall park, stand, or stop a motor vehicle upon any public highway in violation of any lawful instruction of any police officer or other traffic officer.
C. 
No person shall park, stand, or stop a motor vehicle:
(1) 
On the roadway side of any vehicle parked, standing, or stopped at the edge or curb of a street;
(2) 
On a sidewalk;
(3) 
In a bus stop;
(4) 
Within an intersection, except when permitted by official signs or parking meters on the side of a street opposite a street which intersects but does not cross such street;
(5) 
On a crosswalk;
(6) 
Between a safety zone and the adjacent curb or within 30 feet of points on the curb immediately opposite the ends of a safety zone, unless a different distance is indicated by official signs, markings, or parking meters;
(7) 
Alongside or opposite any street excavation or obstruction when parking, standing, or stopping would obstruct traffic;
(8) 
Within six feet of a fire hydrant, except when such motor vehicle is attended by an individual licensed by the State of New York to operate such motor vehicle who is seated in the front operator's seat and who can immediately move such motor vehicle in case of emergency, unless a different distance is indicated by official signs, markings, or parking meters, and in no event when such motor vehicle impairs or hinders the access of a fire vehicle to a fire hydrant while such fire vehicle is engaged in an emergency operation;
(9) 
On a street or in a public parking lot when the motor vehicle does not have a current registration affixed in the location required by New York State law;
(10) 
On a street or in a public parking lot when the motor vehicle does not have a current inspection sticker affixed in the location required by New York State law; or
(11) 
On a street or in a public parking lot when the motor vehicle does not have a current and unobstructed license plate securely affixed in the location required by New York State law;
(12) 
In whole or in part on any portion of a municipal street where there is no pavement;
(13) 
On a street or in a parking lot in the Village's Commercial or Central Business District Zone when the motor vehicle is wider than the markings of a single parking space as denoted on the street or parking lot, unless such vehicle has permission to do so, such as for temporary food truck vending or construction-related activities.
D. 
No person shall park or stand a motor vehicle, whether occupied or not, except momentarily to pick up or discharge a passenger or passengers:
(1) 
In front of a public or private driveway;
(2) 
Within five feet of a crosswalk at an intersection, unless a different distance is indicated by official signs, markings, or parking meters;
(3) 
Within five feet upon the approach to any flashing signal, stop, or yield sign or traffic control signal located at the side of the roadway, unless a different distance is indicated by official signs, markings, or parking meters;
(4) 
Within 10 feet of the driveway entrance to any fire station and, when on the side of the street opposite to the entrance of any fire station, within 75 feet of said entrance, when properly signposted, unless a different distance is indicated by official signs, markings, or parking meters; or
(5) 
Alongside or obstructing a curb area which has been cut down, lowered or constructed so as to provide accessibility to the sidewalk;
(6) 
On a portion of a street that constitutes a bridge located above a waterway.
E. 
Except where angle parking, standing, or stopping is authorized, every motor vehicle parked, standing, or stopped:
(1) 
Wholly upon a two-way roadway shall be so parked, standing, or stopped with the right-hand wheels of such motor vehicle parallel to and within 12 inches of the right-hand curb or edge of the roadway; or
(2) 
Wholly upon a one-way roadway shall be so parked, standing, or stopped parallel to the curb or edge of the roadway, in the direction of authorized traffic movement, with its right-hand wheels within 12 inches of the right-hand curb or edge of the roadway, or its left-hand wheels within 12 inches of the left-hand curb or edge of the roadway; or
(3) 
Partly upon a roadway shall be so parked, standing, or stopped parallel to the curb or edge of the roadway. On a one-way roadway, such motor vehicle shall be facing in the direction of authorized traffic movement; on a two-way roadway, such motor vehicle shall be facing in the direction of authorized traffic movement on the adjacent travel lane.
F. 
No person regularly engaged in the sale or repair of motor vehicles shall park a motor vehicle upon any street or public parking lot for the purpose of:
(1) 
Displaying such motor vehicle for sale;
(2) 
Greasing or repairing such motor vehicle, except for such repairs as may be necessitated by an emergency; or
(3) 
General storage of vehicles, whether long-term or for a time longer than 30 minutes.
G. 
The Village may remove and store motor vehicles parked, standing, or stopped in the public parking lots, streets, and other public areas during snowstorms, floods, fires, or other public emergencies, or otherwise found abandoned or unattended, where they constitute an obstruction to traffic or where parking, standing, and/or stopping is prohibited, and provide for the payment of such reasonable charges for such removal and storage by the owner or operator of any such vehicle as shall be determined from time to time by resolution of the Board of Trustees.
H. 
When a motor vehicle is parked, standing, or stopped in violation of this chapter, and there is a person operating the motor vehicle at the time of the violation, the operator shall be guilty of such violation. If there is no person operating the motor vehicle at the time, or if the operator refuses to provide to the enforcement officer a valid operator license with the operator's name and address, the owner, as the person responsible for the motor vehicle, shall be conclusively deemed guilty of such violation.
I. 
Proper display of stickers and permits.
(1) 
No motor vehicle shall stop, stand, or park on any public highway or in any public parking lot that does not have a current certificate of inspection affixed to its windshield or other location as required by the State of New York or such other state within which the vehicle has been registered.
(2) 
No motor vehicle shall stop, stand, or park on any public highway or in any public parking lot that does not have a current registration sticker affixed to its windshield or other location as required by the State of New York or such other state within which the vehicle has been registered.
(3) 
No motor vehicle shall stop, stand, or park in any public parking lot in a parking space that is designated by signage as restricted to parking by holders of parking permits issued by the Village that does not have a current parking permit issued by the Village for the parking space in which it is located that is prominently and unobstructedly displayed through its rear window. It shall be an affirmative defense that for the particular vehicle and/or the particular parking permit at issue, another location on the vehicle was required by or acceptable to the Village for the display of the permit and that the permit was prominently and unobstructedly displayed at that location on the vehicle.
J. 
No person shall park a motor vehicle on a public street or in a public parking lot between 12:00 midnight and 6:00 a.m. when there is over three inches of snow on that street or in that parking lot within 15 feet of where the vehicle is parked, unless authorized by a lawful authority.
A. 
No provision of this article for which a traffic control device is required shall be enforced against any person if at the time and place of the alleged violation a traffic control device is not in sufficient position and sufficiently legible to be seen by an ordinarily observant person operating a motor vehicle upon a public highway providing notice of the subject prohibition. Whenever a particular section does not state that a traffic control device is required, such section shall be effective even though no device is erected or in place.
B. 
Whenever traffic control devices are sufficiently positioned and sufficiently legible to be seen by an ordinarily observant person operating a motor vehicle upon a public highway, such devices shall be presumed to have been so placed by the official act or direction of a lawful authority, unless the contrary shall be established by the alleged violator by competent evidence.
C. 
Any traffic control device that meets the then-existing New York State standards for the placement and legibility of such device shall be presumed to be sufficiently positioned and sufficiently legible to be seen by an ordinarily observant person operating a motor vehicle upon a public highway, unless the contrary shall be established by the alleged violator by competent evidence.
D. 
It shall be an affirmative defense to any alleged violation of this article that the actions taken by the operator of the motor vehicle were in compliance with the directions of a police officer, other traffic officer, or traffic control device, or authorized by a lawful authority.
A. 
Except for violations of Article II above, 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 $200 or by imprisonment for not more than 90 days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
B. 
Each day that a violation of this article shall continue shall be deemed a separate and distinct offense.