All existing traffic-control signs, signals,
markings and devices posted pursuant to order of the Board of Trustees
shall be deemed to have been posted under authority granted by this
chapter and by the Vehicle and Traffic Law of the State of New York,
and the posting thereof is hereby ratified and confirmed. All violations
of the directions on said signs, signals, markings and devices presently
erected or hereafter erected shall be prosecuted as violations of
this chapter.
No person shall meddle, tamper or interfere
with or willfully break, injure, deface, remove or destroy any traffic-control
sign, signal, marking or device placed or erected pursuant to the
provisions of this chapter.
A.
Obedience required. The operator of a vehicle shall
obey the instructions of any official traffic-control sign, signal,
marking or device applicable thereto placed in accordance with the
provisions of this chapter or of the Vehicle and Traffic Law, unless
otherwise directed by a traffic or police officer, subject to the
exceptions granted the operator of an authorized emergency vehicle
in the Vehicle and Traffic Law.
B.
Signs. No provision of this chapter or of the Vehicle
and Traffic Law for which signs are required shall be enforced against
an alleged violator if at the time and place of the alleged violation
an official sign is not in proper position and sufficiently legible
to be seen by an ordinarily observant person. Whenever a particular
section does not state that signs are required, such section shall
be effective even though no signs are erected or in place.
[Amended 4-11-1995 by L.L. No. 1-1995]
The erection of stop signs at all four corners
of through streets intersecting with each other shall be authorized
within the right-of-way as provided by the Vehicle and Traffic Law.
The Board of Trustees may, at such times as
it deems advisable, authorize the Police Department to place yield
signs at any intersections of streets or highways, and the erection
or placing of such yield signs shall be presumptive evidence that
such signs were erected and placed at the direction of the Board of
Trustees.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: The schedule of yield intersections
is on file in the village offices.
