The Board of Selectmen of the Town of Old Lyme
hereby establishes the following regulations restricting parking of
vehicles on all highways maintained by the Town.
Whenever in these regulations the following
terms are used, they shall have the meaning respectively ascribed
to them in this section:
PARK or PARKING
The standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, upon
a street otherwise than temporarily for the purpose of and while actually
engaged in receiving or discharging passengers or unloading wholesale
merchandise, or when stopped for any traffic regulations, traffic
signs or signals.
TRAFFIC
Pedestrians, vehicles and other conveyances, while using
the highway for purposes of travel and access to and from private
property.
No vehicle shall be parked at any time in such
manner as to interfere with a normal flow of traffic or with snowplowing
work or snow removal work.
During any snowstorm at such time as two inches
of snow have fallen and thereafter until the cessation of the snowstorm
and until the completion of snowplowing operations, the parking of
vehicles is prohibited on all highways maintained by the Town.
[Amended 1-27-2003; 4-23-2012]
Whenever any vehicle is being parked in violation of §
210-3 or
210-4 of this chapter, or is parked in any parking space on a public street beyond the legal parking time established for such space by a parking meter or by signage posted by order of the Board of Selectmen, said vehicle may be removed or conveyed by or under the direction of a Town or state policeman or Town constable by means of towing or otherwise removing the same to a public parking facility or garage at the risk of the owner. Before the owner or person in charge of such vehicle shall be permitted to remove the same from the custody of the Town or state policeman or a Town constable, he shall furnish evidence of his identity and ownership or right to possession and shall sign a receipt for such vehicle and for each violation shall pay to the Town of Old Lyme a fee of not more than $90, plus towing and storage charges, such towing and storage charges to be payable directly to the operator of the public parking facility or garage.