[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Board of the
Town of Islip 4-21-87. Amendments noted where applicable.]
This ordinance, applicable to skateboards, shall
apply whenever a skateboard is operated on any street or upon any
highway or upon any sidewalk or any place where pedestrians walk.
Every person operating a skateboard upon a highway
or road dedicated or otherwise, shall operate the same in strict observance
of all laws applicable to a vehicle and the use thereof and in compliance
with all rules of the road applicable to the operation of a vehicle
and in compliance with all traffic ordinances, except as to those
provisions of laws and ordinances which by their nature can have no
application.
The operator of a skateboard emerging from an
alley, driveway or building shall, upon approaching a sidewalk, yield
the right-of-way to all pedestrians approaching on said sidewalk.
No person shall stand, park or otherwise place
in a position of temporary storage a skateboard upon a highway, street,
sidewalk or against any building abutting a sidewalk in such a manner
which shall obstruct or render injury to a pedestrian or interfere
with vehicular traffic.
A.
No person shall operate a skateboard at nighttime
unless he or she is wearing reflective clothing, which shall be visible
from a distance of not less than fifty (50) feet and a maximum of
three hundred (300) feet from the front, side and rear of the skateboard
when directly in front of the lawful beams of a headlight on a motor
vehicle.
B.
"Reflective clothing" shall be defined, for the purposes
of this ordinance, as any shirt, vest, jacket or any other readily
visible piece of apparel equipped with a reflective surface, such
as phosphorescent tape or an equivalent reflective surface.
The parent of the minor child or the guardian
of any minor child shall not authorize or knowingly permit any such
child to violate any of the provisions of this ordinance.
A.
Any person or persons violating any provision of this
ordinance shall be guilty of an offense and shall forfeit and pay
a fine not to exceed twenty-five dollars ($25.) for each and every
offense.
B.
Any skateboard operated in violation of this ordinance
may be immediately impounded. The Town of Islip shall store such impounded
skateboards in a suitable, secure location. No impounded skateboards
may be released until all storage costs and fees have been paid. The
violator shall be responsible for the payment of all such costs and
fees. The per diem storage fee shall be two dollars ($2.). The impound
fee shall be five dollars ($5.).
C.
Any skateboard not redeemed within thirty (30) days
shall become the property of the Town of Islip.
This ordinance is to take effect and be in force
on and after May 10, 1987.
