[Adopted 4-5-1983 by L.L. No. 4-1983 (Ch. 200 of the 1976 Code)]
A. 
The words and phrases used in this article shall, for the purpose of this article, have the meanings ascribed to them in the Vehicle and Traffic Law of the State of New York.
B. 
Words and phrases not defined in the Vehicle and Traffic Law of the State of New York shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this Code.
C. 
"Village parking space" shall mean every parking space which is in or on a public street or is in or on a public or private premises within the Village subject to traffic regulation by the Village.
[Added 5-17-1994 by L.L. No. 1-1994; amended 2-4-2003 by L.L. No. 2-2003]
[Amended 2-4-2003 by L.L. No. 2-2003; 4-16-2013 by L.L. No. 5-2013]
Pursuant to the provisions of the Vehicle and Traffic Law of the State of New York and the Village Law of the State of New York, the Board of Trustees is hereby authorized to adopt by resolution orders, rules, and regulations:
A. 
Governing traffic on public streets.
B. 
Governing traffic on property owned or leased by the Village.
C. 
Providing for the issuance of permits to park on property owned or leased by the Village.
D. 
Establishing a system of fees to be charged for the use of public parking fields owned or leased by the Village, including the public parking fields paid for, in whole or in part, as a local assessment on property benefited.
E. 
In accordance with § 1640-a of the Vehicle and Traffic Law of the State of New York, pursuant to the written request of the owner, the person in general charge of the operation and control of such area, or the Police Chief or the Police Commissioner of the Police Department serving such area, with respect to the parking area of a shopping center, office building and office building complex or place of public assembly, 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 and driveways of a fire station, as follows:
(1) 
Order stop signs, flashing signals, or yield signs erected at specified 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 where they constitute an obstruction to traffic or 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) 
Adopt such additional reasonable rules and regulations with respect to traffic and parking in any such area as local conditions may require for the safety and convenience of the public or of the users of any such area.
(11) 
Make special provisions with relation to stopping, standing, or parking of vehicles registered pursuant to § 404-a of the Vehicle and Traffic Law of the State of New York or those possessing a special vehicle identification parking permit issued in accordance with § 1203-a of the Vehicle and Traffic Law of the State of New York.
F. 
Unless a penalty is otherwise expressly provided in this chapter, any person found guilty of a violation of an order, rule, or regulation adopted pursuant to this section shall be punishable in accordance with the penalties set forth in § 537-25 of this chapter.
The Superintendent of Public Works shall have the authority and responsibility to see to the installation and maintenance of traffic control devices, when and as required under the provisions of this article, and shall install and maintain such additional traffic control devices as he may be directed to do so by the Board of Trustees to regulate, warn or guide traffic in accordance with and subject to the provisions of the Vehicle and Traffic Law of the State of New York.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Original § 200-4, Handicapped parking penalty, which previously followed this section, was repealed 6-11-1985 by L.L. No. 8-1985.
[1]
Editor’s Note: Original § 537-8, Regulation of traffic at Millbrook Court Apartments, added 6-7-1994 by L.L. No. 5-1994, as amended, was repealed 4-16-2013 by L.L. No. 5-2013.
[Added 5-17-1994 by L.L. No. 1-1994]
A. 
The purpose of this section is to promote the health, safety and general welfare of the community and to prevent the obstruction of government administration and enforcement by persons seeking to avoid the time limitations for parking of motor vehicles in or on public streets within the Village or in or upon premises within the Village which are subject to traffic regulation by the Village.
B. 
It is hereby declared to be a violation of this section for any person or persons, with intent to avoid the time limitations for parking of motor vehicles in Village parking spaces:
[Amended 5-15-2001 by L.L. No. 11-2001]
(1) 
To remove or cause to be removed chalk or other markings placed on a motor vehicle's tires by a police or other governmental officer when such markings were placed to assist in determining the length of time said motor vehicle is parked therein.
(2) 
To remove or cause to be removed a motor vehicle from one Village parking space and to place said motor vehicle in another Village parking space within a five hundred-foot distance measuring from the closest two points of the respective Village parking spaces.
(3) 
To remove or cause to be removed a motor vehicle from one Village parking space in a Village parking field to another Village parking space in the same or another Village parking field, regardless of the distance between the parking spaces.
C. 
Presumptions.
[Amended 5-15-2001 by L.L. No. 11-2001]
(1) 
The removal of a chalk or other marking from the tires of a motor vehicle parked in a Village parking space, which chalk or other marking was placed by a police or other governmental officer to assist in determining the length of time said motor vehicle is parked in a Village parking space, is presumptive evidence of an intent to avoid the time limitations for parking of motor vehicles in Village parking spaces.
(2) 
The removal of a motor vehicle from one Village parking space and the placing of that motor vehicle in another Village parking space within a five-hundred-foot distance, measuring from the closest two points of the respective Village parking spaces, is presumptive evidence of an intent to avoid the time limitations for parking of motor vehicles in Village parking spaces.
(3) 
The removal of a motor vehicle from one Village parking space in a Village parking field to another Village parking space in the same or another Village parking field, regardless of the distance between the parking spaces, is presumptive evidence of an intent to avoid the time limitations for parking of motor vehicles in Village parking spaces.
[Added 5-15-2001 by L.L. No. 11-2001]
A. 
Prohibition. No person employed within the Village shall park the motor vehicle by which such person is coming to or leaving such person's employment in a Village parking field except in a parking space which is marked for employees only and for which an appropriate Village parking permit is properly affixed to such motor vehicle.
B. 
Presumptions. The parking for more than two hours, cumulatively between 8:30 a.m. and 6:00 p.m., on any one day, in any one or more Village parking fields of a motor vehicle which is registered in the name of and/or to the place of residence of a person who is an employee of a business within the Village is presumptive evidence of an intent to avoid the prohibition against employee parking in Village parking fields.
[Added 2-19-2002 by L.L. No. 5-2002]
Every person convicted of a violation of the provisions of § 537-9 or 537-10 of this article shall, for a first conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not more than $25; for a conviction of a second violation, both of which were committed within a period of 60 days, such person shall be punished by a fine of not more than $50; for a conviction of a third violation, all three of which were committed within a period of 60 days, such person shall be punished by a fine of not more than $100; for a conviction of a fourth or subsequent violation, all of which were committed within a period of 60 days, such person shall be punished by a fine of not more than $200.