A. 
The words and phrases used in this chapter shall, for the purposes of this chapter, have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by Article 1 of the Vehicle and Traffic Law of the State of New York.
B. 
The following words and phrases, which are not defined by Article 1 of the Vehicle and Traffic Law of the State of New York, shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them in this section for the purposes of this chapter:
COMMERCIAL VEHICLE
Any vehicle or motor vehicle used and operated in connection with any business, occupation or enterprise, operated for hire, including, without limitation by the enumeration thereof, taxicabs, service and delivery trucks, vending trucks, moving vans, semitrailers, bulldozers, earthmoving machinery, rollers, cranes, derricks, oil trucks, tank trucks, tow trucks, buses, hearses, maintenance or repair trucks and vehicles used for carrying signs for advertising or directional purposes.
CURBLINE
The prolongation of the lateral line of a curb or, in the absence of a curb, the lateral boundary line of the roadway.
HOLIDAY
New Year's Day, Lincoln's Birthday, Washington's Birthday, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.
OFFICIAL TIME STANDARD
Whenever certain hours are named herein or on traffic control devices, they shall mean the time standard which is in current use in this state.
PARKING FIELDS
Any part of land determined by this Village or the owner or owners of said land to be used by the public for the purpose of parking vehicles.
PARKING METER
Any mechanical device or meter not inconsistent with this chapter placed or erected for the regulation of parking by authority of this chapter. Each parking meter installed shall indicate by proper legend the legal parking time established by this Village and, when operated, shall at all times indicate the balance of legal parking time and, at the expiration of such period, shall indicate illegal or overtime parking.
PARKING METER BOARD
Machines which are located in parking lots which have numbered spaces, and into which coins are deposited corresponding to the numbered parking space.
[Added 6-22-2004 by L.L. No. 2-2004]
PARKING METER SPACE
Any space within the parking meter zone adjacent to a parking meter and which is duly designated for the parking of a single vehicle by lines painted or otherwise durably marked upon the curb or the surface of the street adjacent to or adjoining a parking meter.
PARKING METER ZONE
Any street and/or any designated location set aside under provisions of this chapter for the installation of parking meters, and upon which parking meters have been installed and are in operation.
SCHOOL DAYS
When school is officially open for regular sessions.
The Superintendent of Highways shall install, as authorized, 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 he may deem 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 11-28-2017 by L.L. No. 11-2017; 4-9-2019 by L.L. No. 5-2019]
A. 
Uninspected vehicle. No motor vehicle shall be parked upon any street, road or highway or other public areas of the Village unless a valid certificate of inspection is affixed to the windshield as required by the Vehicle and Traffic Law of the State of New York. Any violation of this section shall constitute a parking violation. In such event, the registered owner of such vehicle shall be deemed the violator.
B. 
Unregistered vehicle. No motor vehicle shall be parked upon any street, road or highway or other public areas of the Village unless a valid registration sticker is affixed to the windshield together with proper plates on the vehicle as required by the Vehicle and Traffic Law of the State of New York. Any violation of this section shall constitute a parking violation. In such event the registered owner of such vehicle shall be deemed the violator.
A. 
Every person shall obey the instructions of any official traffic control device applicable to him placed in accordance with the provisions of the New York State Vehicle and Traffic Law, unless otherwise directed by a traffic or police officer, subject to the exceptions granted the driver of an authorized emergency vehicle in the New York State Vehicle and Traffic Law.
B. 
No provision of the New York State Vehicle and Traffic Law for which signs are required shall be enforced against an alleged violator if at the time and place of the alleged violation an official sign is not in proper position and sufficiently legible to be seen by an ordinary observant person. Whenever a particular section does not state that signs are required, such section shall be effective even though no signs are erected or in place.
C. 
Whenever official traffic control devices are placed in position approximately conforming to the requirements of the New York State Vehicle and Traffic Law, such devices shall be presumed to have been so placed by the official act or direction of lawful authority, unless the contrary shall be established by competent evidence.
D. 
Any official traffic control device placed pursuant to the provisions of this chapter and purporting to conform to the lawful requirements pertaining to such device shall be presumed to comply with the requirements of the New York State Vehicle and Traffic Law, unless the contrary shall be established by competent evidence.
A. 
No person shall turn a vehicle at an intersection unless the vehicle is in proper position upon the roadway as required in § 1160 of the New York State Vehicle and Traffic Law, or turn a vehicle to enter a private road or driveway or otherwise turn a vehicle from a direct course or move right or left upon a roadway unless and until such movement can be made with reasonable safety. No person shall so turn any vehicle without giving an appropriate signal in the manner hereinafter provided.
B. 
A signal of intention to turn right or left, when required, shall be given continuously during not less than the last 100 feet traveled by the vehicle before turning.
C. 
No person shall stop or suddenly decrease the speed of a vehicle without first giving an appropriate signal, in the manner provided in the New York State Vehicle and Traffic Law, to the driver of any vehicle immediately to the rear when there is an opportunity to give such a signal.
D. 
The signals provided for in § 1164 of the New York State Vehicle and Traffic Law shall be used to indicate an intention to turn, change lanes or start from a parked position and not be flashed on one side only on a parked or disabled vehicle or flashed as a courtesy or "do pass" signal to operators of other vehicles approaching from the rear.
E. 
The driver of a vehicle equipped with simultaneously flashing signals as provided for in Subdivision 18-a of § 375 of the New York State Vehicle and Traffic Law shall use such signals when the vehicle is stopped or disabled on a public highway, except when such vehicle is stopped in compliance with a traffic control device or when legally parked. The driver of the vehicle so equipped may use such signals whenever necessary to warn the operators of following vehicles of the presence of a traffic hazard ahead of the signaling vehicle or to warn the operators of other vehicles that the signaling vehicle may itself constitute a traffic hazard, taking into account traffic and highway conditions. No person shall use such signals for any other purpose.
[Amended 6-22-2004 by L.L. No. 2-2004]
A. 
No person shall drive a vehicle at a speed more than is reasonable and prudent under the conditions and having regard to the actual and potential hazards then existing.
B. 
Except when a special hazard exists that requires lower speed for compliance with Subsection A of this section or when maximum speed limits have been established as hereinafter authorized, no person shall drive a vehicle at a speed in excess of 55 miles per hour.
C. 
Whenever maximum school limits have been established on a highway adjacent to a school as authorized in §§ 1620, 1622, 1630, 1643 or 1662-a of the New York State Vehicle and Traffic Law, no person shall drive in excess of such maximum school speed limits during school days between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m.
D. 
Whenever maximum speed limits, rather than school speed limits, have been established as authorized in §§ 1620, 1622, 1623, 1625, 1627, 1630, 1643, 1644, 1652, 1662-a, 1663 and 1670 of the New York State Vehicle and Traffic Law, no person shall drive in excess of such maximum speed limits at any time.
E. 
The driver of every vehicle shall, consistent with the requirements of Subsection A of this section, drive at an appropriate reduced speed when approaching an intersection or railway grade crossing, when approaching and going around a curve, when approaching a hill crest, when traveling upon any narrow or winding roadway and when any special hazard exists with respect to pedestrians or other traffic by reason of weather or highway conditions, including but not limited to a highway construction or maintenance work area.
A. 
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 XI 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.
B. 
Regulations shall be adopted by the Board of Trustees in accordance with provisions of the Village Law and the Vehicle and Traffic Law, or by an officer or agency authorized by the Board of Trustees to adopt regulations pursuant to § 1603 of the New York State Vehicle and Traffic Law.
C. 
The schedules appended to this chapter may in certain instances represent an incomplete record of the subject matter contained therein and the existing traffic control devices in the Village of Babylon. Therefore, the Board of Trustees declares that any such items that may have been omitted from these schedules shall be given the full force, accord and effect of law and a presumption of validity, provided that they were in existence and plainly posted as such on the effective date of this chapter.