This chapter shall be known as "Chapter 131, Vehicles and Traffic, of the Code of the Town of Southeast" and shall apply within the Town of Southeast to all drivers and/or owners of motor vehicles using the highways and parking facilities of the Town.
A.
The words and phrases used in this chapter shall,
for the purpose 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.
CURBLINE
HOLIDAYS
OFFICIAL TIME STANDARD
PARKING METER ZONE
PUBLIC PARKING LOT
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 purpose 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.
New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day,
Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.
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.
A designated location upon or within which the parking of
vehicles is regulated by parking meters. For purposes of this chapter,
a "parking meter zone" shall be a limited-time parking area.
A plot or parcel of land or building owned and/or leased
by this Town, not including highways, upon or within which the parking
of vehicles is regulated by signs and/or parking meters.
A.
The Superintendent of Highways shall provide for the
installation and maintenance of 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 the Town Board 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
1683 of that law.
B.
Except where obedience to the provisions of this chapter
is required by the Vehicle and Traffic Law of the State of New York,
every person is hereby required to obey all applicable provisions
of this chapter and of every regulation adopted pursuant thereto,
provided that, where applicable, notice of such provisions or regulations
is properly posted as required by law. The local law enforcement officials
are hereby charged with enforcement of these regulations and are,
in addition, empowered to make and enforce temporary regulations for
emergency or special conditions.
