[Adopted 4-29-1981 by L.L. No. 3-1981 as Ch. 69 of the 1975 Code]
This article is adopted pursuant to § 1640-a of the Vehicle and Traffic Law of the State of New York at the requests of owners of shopping centers in the Town of LaGrange, Dutchess County, New York.
A. 
Upon written request of either the owner or the person in general charge of the operation and control of a parking area in a shopping center in the Town of LaGrange (as the terms "parking area" and "shopping center" are defined in § 1640-a of the Vehicle and Traffic Law), the following traffic regulations shall be in effect from the effective date of this article at shopping center parking areas:
(1) 
The parking, standing or stopping of vehicles within areas marked "no parking" or "fire zone" is prohibited except for vehicles delivering merchandise.
(2) 
No vehicles shall stop, stand or park in front of any doorways in said shopping centers except for vehicles delivering merchandise.
B. 
Those areas set forth in Subsection A(1) and (2) of this section shall be known as "fire lanes" in said parking areas.
Any vehicle parked or abandoned in said fire lanes during snowstorms, floods, fires or other public emergencies shall be removed, upon the order of the Town Superintendent of Highways, to the Town of LaGrange garage and may not be recovered except upon payment to the Town Clerk for all expenses incurred in the removal and storage of said vehicle by the owner or operator of same.[1]
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Editor's Note: See also Art. III, Removal of Vehicles, of this chapter.
The violation of this article constitutes a traffic infraction, and every person convicted of a traffic infraction for a violation of this article shall be punishable 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 persons 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 $250 or by imprisonment for not more than 90 days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.