The various laws, ordinances, regulations and
resolutions of the Town of North Hempstead, regarding vehicles and
traffic, shall be known collectively as the "Uniform Traffic Code
of the Town of North Hempstead" or the "Uniform Traffic Code" when the context is clear. The Uniform Traffic Code, as
published by General Code Publishers Corp. and as presented to the
Town Board on September 17, 1996, is hereby adopted. Law enforcement
officers shall cite violations by reference to sections of the Uniform
Traffic Code.
The Uniform Traffic Code shall not effect the
repeal of any existing law, ordinance, regulation or resolution of
the Town of North Hempstead regarding vehicles and traffic (hereafter
"prior legislation"). In the event of any inconsistency between the
Uniform Traffic Code and any such prior legislation, the provisions
of the Uniform Traffic Code, as published, shall govern. Any such
prior legislation that inadvertently was not included in the published
version of the Uniform Traffic Code shall continue in full force and
effect.
A copy of the Uniform Traffic Code, in loose-leaf
form, shall be certified by the Town Clerk of the Town of North Hempstead
by impressing thereon the Seal of the Town of North Hempstead, and
such certified copy shall remain on file in the office of said Town
Clerk to be made available to persons desiring to examine the same
during all times while said Code is in effect.
Any and all additions, deletions, amendments
or supplements to any of the local laws, ordinances and resolutions
known collectively as the "Uniform Traffic Code" or any new local
laws, ordinances or resolutions, when acted or adopted in such form
as to indicate the intention of the Town Board to be a part thereof,
shall be deemed to be incorporated in such Code so that reference
to the Uniform Traffic Code shall be understood and intended to include
such additions, deletions, amendments or supplements. Whenever such
additions, deletions, amendments or supplements to the Uniform Traffic
Code shall be enacted or adopted, they shall thereafter be printed
and, as provided hereunder, inserted in the loose-leaf book containing
said Code, as amendments and supplements thereto.
It shall be the duty of the Town Clerk, or someone
authorized and directed by the Town Clerk, to keep up-to-date the
certified copy of the book containing the Uniform Traffic Code required
to be filed in the office of the Town Clerk for the use of the public.
All changes in said Code and all local laws, ordinances and resolutions
adopted by the Town Board subsequent to the enactment of this local
law in such form as to indicate the intention of said Town Board to
be a part of said Code shall, when finally enacted or adopted, be
included therein by temporary attachment of a copy of such changes
or local laws, ordinances or resolutions until such changes or local
laws, ordinances or resolutions are printed as supplements to said
Code book, at which time supplements shall be inserted therein.
Copies of the Code book containing the Uniform
Traffic Code may be purchased from the Town Clerk of the Town of North
Hempstead upon the payment of a fee to be set by resolution of the
Town Board, which may also arrange by resolution for procedures for
the periodic supplementation thereof.
[Added 11-19-2019 by L.L.
No. 17-2019]
A. It shall be unlawful for license plates to be kept in a condition
that is not easily readable. License plates shall not knowingly or
otherwise be covered by glass or any plastic material, coated with
any artificial or synthetic material or substance that conceals or
obscures such license plates or that distorts a recorded or photographic
image of such license plate.
B. License plates shall not be obstructed by any part of the vehicle
or by anything carried thereon, except for a receiver-transmitter
issued by a publicly owned tolling facility in connection with electronic
toll collection when such receiver- transmitter is affixed to the
exterior of a vehicle in accordance with mounting instructions provided
by the tolling facility.
C. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, partnership, association,
limited-liability company or corporation to sell, offer for sale or
distribute any artificial or synthetic material or substance for the
purpose of application to a license plate that will, upon application
to a license plate, distort a recorded or photographic image of such
license plate.
Any person who, without authorization from the
Town Clerk, changes or amends, by additions or deletions, any part
or portion of the Uniform Traffic Code or who alters or tampers with
such Code in any manner whatsoever which will cause the legislation
of the Town of North Hempstead to be misrepresented thereby, or who
violates any other provisions of this local law, shall, upon conviction
thereof, be subject to a fine of not more than $250 for each offense.