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 I of the Vehicle and Traffic Law of the State of
New York.
B.
CURBLINE
FIRE LANES
OFFICIAL TIME STANDARD
PARKING FIELDS
PARKING METER
PARKING METER SPACE
PARKING METER ZONE
SCHOOL DAYS
The following words and phrases which are not defined
by Article I 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:
The prolongation of the lateral line of a curb or, in the
absence of a curb, the lateral boundary line of the roadway.[1]
A vehicular access roadway or driveway designated officially
by the Fire Department as a required means of Fire Department emergency
access.
[Added 10-2-2007 by L.L. No. 2-2007]
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.
Any part of land determined by the owner or owners of said
land to be used by the public for the purpose of parking vehicles.
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.
Any space within a 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.
A 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.
When school is officially open for regular sessions.
[1]
Editor's Note: The former definition of holidays,
which immediately followed this definition, was deleted 9-4-2001 by
L.L. No. 2-2001.
The Superintendent of Public Works of the Village
of Massena, New York, shall install 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.
A.
Every person shall obey the instructions of any official
traffic control device applicable thereto placed in accordance with
the provisions of this chapter in the manner prescribed by and subject
to the exceptions specified in the Vehicle and Traffic Law of the
State of New York.
B.
Every person shall obey any property provision of
this chapter applicable thereto in the manner prescribed by this chapter
when such obedience is not required by the Vehicle and Traffic Law
of the State of New York.
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 IX 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
Vehicle and Traffic Law.
