[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Board of the
Town of Clarkstown 4-3-1974 by L.L. No. 2-1974 as Ch. 18 of the 1974
Code; amended in its entirety 6-16-2009 by L.L. No. 4-2009. Subsequent amendments
noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Vehicles and traffic — See Ch. 278.
The Town Board of the Town of Clarkstown, aware of the needs
of a progressive and expanding community, and further aware that the
growth of the Town of Clarkstown has created traffic hazards and fire
hazards resulting from motor vehicle operation in various parts of
the Town, acting under authority of the Town Law of the State of New
York, hereby determines that the enactment of this chapter will contribute
to minimize and, wherever possible, prevent traffic congestion on
public streets and highways and ameliorate traffic and other motor-vehicle-caused
fire hazards and thus will also contribute to promoting and protecting
the public health, safety and general welfare.
A.
The
Town Board is hereby authorized and empowered to create a Traffic
and Traffic Fire Safety Advisory Board, which shall consist of seven
members, who shall be especially qualified by reason of training or
experience in traffic safety, traffic engineering, fire safety and
fire safety engineering, planning of traffic and parking patterns
to enable their use by emergency vehicles, community planning or other
relevant business or profession or by reason of civic interest and
sound judgment.
B.
The
members of the Traffic and Traffic Fire Safety Advisory Board shall
be appointed by the Town Board. The Fire Inspector, the Chief of Police,
the Building Inspector and the Superintendent of Highways of the Town
of Clarkstown or their designees, are hereby designated advisors to
this Board. The Traffic and Traffic Fire Safety Advisory Board shall
elect a Chairman from its own members. The term of office of the Chairman
shall be one year. The Town Board may provide for compensation to
be paid to said members and a Secretary and provide for such other
expenses as may be necessary and proper, not exceeding in all the
appropriations that may be made by the Town Board for such Traffic
and Traffic Fire Safety Advisory Board. The Town Board is hereby authorized
to make such appropriation as it may see fit for such expenses; however,
such expenses shall be a charge upon the taxable property of that
part of the Town outside of incorporated villages.
C.
Members
shall be appointed for terms of five years. If a vacancy shall occur
otherwise than by expiration of a term, it shall be filled by the
Town Board by appointment for the unexpired term. Except as hereinabove
stated, persons appointed by the Town Board to fill an unexpired term
shall do so at the pleasure of the Town Board.
D.
Meetings
of the Traffic and Traffic Fire Safety Advisory Board shall be held
at such time as the Board may determine and at such times at the call
of the Chairman. Four members of such Board shall constitute a quorum
for the transaction of business. All meetings of such Board shall
be open to the public. The Board shall keep minutes of its proceedings,
showing the vote of each member upon any question or, if absent or
failing to vote, indicating such fact, and shall also keep records
of its examinations and official actions. Every rule, regulation,
every amendment, or repeal thereof, and every requirement, decision
or determination of the Board shall immediately be filed in the office
of the Town Clerk and shall be a public record. The Board shall have
the power to adopt, amend and repeal rules and regulations after a
public hearing by the Traffic and Traffic Fire Safety Advisory Board
and subject to the approval of the Town Board governing its procedure
and the transaction of business.
A.
The
Traffic and Traffic Fire Safety Advisory Board shall review the traffic
and fire rules, regulations, ordinances or local laws adopted or to
be adopted by the Town of Clarkstown regulating and controlling traffic
and parking in the Town of Clarkstown, including but not limited to
speed limits, parking, traffic signals, blind intersections, bad curves,
delineation of fire lanes, fire zones, traffic and parking patterns
in subdivisions, sites and shopping centers and the elimination of
traffic hazards and traffic-connected fire hazards in the Town of
Clarkstown.
B.
The
Traffic and Traffic Fire Safety Advisory Board shall investigate and
report to the Town Board upon the problems referred to it by the Town
Board or Town officials.
C.
Prior
to the holding of a public hearing by any Town agency other than the
Town Board, the Traffic and Traffic Fire Safety Advisory Board shall
review traffic patterns and parking facilities for new construction,
including but not limited to subdivisions, site layouts and shopping
centers, in cooperation with the Planning Board, for fire hazards,
traffic hazards, ingress and egress for emergency vehicles of all
types and kinds, the location and number of fire hydrants and other
interrelated factors.
D.
The
Traffic and Traffic Fire Safety Advisory Board shall coordinate Town
traffic and safety programs with similar programs of adjacent municipalities
and the County of Rockland.
E.
Nothing
herein contained shall give the Traffic and Traffic Fire Safety Advisory
Board any authority or supervision over the Building Inspector, Fire
Inspector, Chief of Police or Superintendent of Highways of the Town
of Clarkstown in the performance of the duties enjoined upon them
by law.
The Town Board may, by resolution, ordinance or local law, provide
for the referral of any matter to the Traffic and Traffic Fire Safety
Advisory Board before the final action thereon by the body or officer
of the Town having final authority to act thereon, with or without
the provision that final action thereon shall not be taken until the
Traffic and Traffic Fire Safety Advisory Board has submitted its report
or has had a reasonable time, to be fixed by the Town Board, to submit
the report.
Upon receipt of applications for traffic calming devices, the
Traffic and Traffic Fire Safety Advisory Board shall recommend traffic
calming measures to the Town Board for its review and action, based
on criteria set forth in the Town of Clarkstown Traffic Calming Program,
in conjunction with the Traffic Technical Advisory Committee and after
preliminary review of said applications by Town staff, including but
not limited to the Superintendent of Highways and the Town's
traffic consultant.
