This chapter shall be known and may be cited
as the "City of Auburn Traffic and Vehicles Ordinance."
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
HOLIDAY
OFFICIAL TIME STANDARD
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 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.
Includes such days designated as public holidays as provided
in § 24 of the General Construction Law.
The time standard which is in current use in this state whenever
certain hours are named herein or on traffic control devices.
A plot or parcel of land or building owned and/or leased
by this City, not including highways, upon or within which the parking
of vehicles is regulated by signs and/or parking meters.
The Department of Public Works and Parks 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 shall install and maintain such additional traffic
control devices as the Council 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.
Pursuant to the provisions of § 1603(a)
of the Vehicle and Traffic Law, power is hereby delegated to the City
Manager to exercise, by official order, rule or regulation, the following
powers granted to the Council of this City in Article 39 of the Vehicle
and Traffic Law, subject to the limitations imposed by §§ 1643
and 1684 of the Vehicle and Traffic Law and not inconsistent with
any ordinances heretofore or hereafter enacted:
A.
To provide for the installation, operation, maintenance,
policing and supervision of parking meters.
B.
To provide for pedestrian crossings and safety zones
in the congested district established in § 60.5 of this
chapter.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Original § 60.5,
Congested District established; § 60.6, Parking time limit
in Congested District; § 60.7, Parking permits within Congested
District; and § 60.8, Issuance of parking permits within
Congested District, which immediately followed this section, were
repealed 10-2-1997 by Ord. No. 26-1997.
