All provisions of the New Jersey State Motor
Vehicle and Traffic Laws and regulations, including those regarding
equipment, lights, licenses, brakes, etc., shall apply in County parks
areas and shall be strictly enforced.
[Amended 8-15-2023 by Ord. No. 9-2023]
A. No person
shall operate, cause or permit to be operated any vehicle recklessly
or negligently or at a speed or in such a manner as to endanger or
injure other persons or property.
B. A person who drives a vehicle carelessly, or without due caution
and circumspection, in a manner so as to endanger, or be likely to
endanger, a person or property, shall be guilty of careless driving.
No person shall operate a vehicle in any part
of a County parks area at a rate of speed exceeding that posted. Where
the speed limit is not posted, no person shall operate a vehicle at
a rate of speed exceeding 15 miles per hour.
No person shall use any parks areas for the
repairing or cleaning of any vehicle, except in an emergency.
No person shall use any parks area for the purpose
of demonstrating any motorized vehicle or for the purpose of instructing
another or learning to drive or operate a motorized vehicle.
No person shall cause or permit a vehicle in
tow of another to enter a parks area of proceed therein, except that,
in case of a breakdown, a disabled vehicle may be towed to the nearest
exit.
Vehicles shall only be operated on roadways
designated for that purpose.
Whenever any County representative shall indicate
or direct, by gesture or otherwise, that a vehicle shall be slowed
or stopped or its course altered, the driver thereof shall immediately
obey such directions.
No owner or driver shall cause or permit his
or her vehicle to stand anywhere outside of designated parking spaces,
except for a reasonable time in a drive to take up or set down passengers.
When a road, drive, path or other area shall
be restricted as to traffic or closed and duty marked by signs, road
markings or barricades, it shall be a violation of this chapter to
fail to observe and obey such signs, road markings or barricades.
The provisions of this chapter shall not apply
to the vehicles, trucks and apparatus of a fire department, police
department, other emergency agency or ambulances or to emergency vehicles
of the County when responding for emergency work in case of fire,
accident, public disaster, impending danger or other emergency.