The Police Department is hereby authorized,
empowered and ordered to direct, control, restrict and regulate all
traffic, including the movements of pedestrians and animals and vehicular
traffic of every kind, in all streets of the Village of Newark; and
the temporary diversions or exclusion of traffic whenever it or any
office deems it necessary. All persons traveling upon any street,
or part thereof, must obey and comply with the signals and direction
of any officer or member of the Police Department as to stopping,
starting, approaching or departing from any place, or the method of
taking on or unloading passengers, or loading or unloading freight
or merchandise. So far as practicable, the directions, orders and
regulations of the Police Department in reference to traffic shall
conform to the provisions of this chapter.
To expedite traffic and safeguard pedestrians,
a traffic officer may temporarily disregard any traffic light when,
in his opinion, an emergency exists, and may take personal charge
of traffic; and all vehicles and pedestrians shall follow and conform
to the directions of such traffic officer.
It shall be unlawful for any person to place
or maintain or to display upon or in view of any street any unofficial
sign, signal or device which purports to be or is an imitation or
resembles an official traffic sign or signal, or which attempts to
direct the movement of traffic, or which conceals or hides an official
sign or signal. Every such prohibited sign, signal or device is hereby
declared to be a public nuisance, and the Chief of Police is hereby
empowered to remove the same, or cause it to be removed, without notice.
The Chief of Police is authorized to mark lanes
for traffic on street pavements at such places as he or she may deem
advisable, and also to mark and establish parking spaces consistent
with the provisions of this chapter.
[Amended 2-19-2013 by L.L. No. 1-2013; 5-17-2016 by L.L. No. 3-2016]
A. No vehicle
shall be parked or left standing on any street nearer than 20 feet
to any corner made by one street intersecting another, or in front
of any alley, driveway or sidewalk so as to block or shut off the
same. Whenever a vehicle is stopped, parked or left standing in the
street, it shall be parked with the right-hand wheels within 12 inches
of the right-hand curb unless otherwise indicated by lines or directed
by the police or traffic officer. In case lines, marks or divisions
are provided for parking in the space permitted, parking shall conform
to such lines, marks or divisions. Double parking at any time is prohibited.
B. It shall
be unlawful for any person to obstruct the use of any fire hydrant
within the Village of Newark or to park a motor vehicle in front thereof,
from the curbline to the center of the street, and to within 10 feet
from either side thereof.
C. It shall
be unlawful for any person to park a motor vehicle on or across any
portion of any sidewalk within the Village of Newark.
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 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
§§ 1682 and 1684 of that law.
[Amended 4-21-1998 by L.L. No. 1-1998]
A. The Board of Trustees is hereby authorized and empowered to make or amend by resolution any rule or regulation set forth in or pursuant to Articles
II through
IV of this chapter for the reasonable control of traffic on the public streets in the Village of Newark and to erect signs indicating such directions to operators of vehicles using said public streets; and when such provisions have been adopted by the Village Board at any meeting of said Board duly held and caused to be published in the official newspaper, and the area is reasonably marked indicating the direction for the control of traffic, violations of such direction shall constitute a violation of this chapter and shall subject the violator to the penalty prescribed in §
140-37 hereof. Any such provisions so adopted shall become effective upon the publication of said provisions in the official newspaper unless otherwise determined by the Board of Trustees.
B. 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
VI 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.