TRAFFIC ORDINANCE NO. 1 PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Town Board of the Town of Hancock, Delaware County, New York, after holding a public hearing on June 7, 1967, at 7:30 o'clock, PM, EDST, in the Municipal Building in the Village of Hancock, New York, and hearing all interested persons, did enact Traffic Ordinance No. 1 of the Town of Hancock as follows: TRAFFIC ORDINANCE NO. 1 OF THE TOWN OF HANCOCK PREAMBLE The Town Board of the Town of Hancock, County of Delaware, State of New York, pursuant to the provisions of the Vehicle and Traffic Law of the State of New York, does, on May 3, 1967 hereby enact the following Ordinance to regulate traffic upon the highways within the Town of Hancock, outside the corporate limits of any village ARTICLE 1 WORDS AND PHRASES DEFINED Section 1. Definition of words and phrases. (a) The words and phrases used in this Ordinance shall for the purpose of this Ordinance have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by Article 1 of the Vehicle and Traffic Laws of the State of New York ARTICLE 11 TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES Section 20. Authority to install traffic control devices. The Town of Hancock Highway Department shall install and maintain traffic control devices when and as required under the provisions of said Ordinance and may install and maintain such additional control devices as it 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 Sections 1682 and 1684 of that law. ARTICLE 111 DELEGATION OF POWERS Section 30. Authority of Superintendent of Highways of the Town of Hancock and all Police Agencies to regulate traffic. Pursuant to the provisions of sub-section (a) of Section 1603 of the Vehicle and Traffic Law power is hereby delegated to the superintendent of Highways of the Town of Hancock and all Police Agencies to exercise, by official order, rule or regulation the following powers granted to the legislative body of this town in Article 41 of the Vehicle and Traffic Law subject, however, to the limitations imposed by Sections 1664 and 1684 of the Vehicle and Traffic Law. 1. Order signs erected directing slow-moving traffic, trucks, buses or specified types of vehicles to use a designated lane, or with signs, signals or markings designate those lanes to be used by traffic mowing in a particular direction regardless of the center of the roadway. 2. Determine those highways or portions of highways which shall be marked to indicate where overtaking and passing or driving to the left of the roadway would be especially hazardous in accordance with the standards, minimum warrants and sign or marking specifications established by the State Traffic Commission. 3. License, regulate or prohibit processions, assemblages, or parades. Whenever such a procession assemblage or parade authorized by a local authority will block the movement of traffic on a town highway maintained by the town or on a highway which connects two town highways maintained by the town, to make a through route, for a period in excess of ten minutes, such authority must, prior to such blocking, provide and designate with conspicuous signs a detour adequate to prevent unreasonable delay in the movement of traffic on said town highway maintained by the town. 4. Prohibit or regulate the operation and the stopping, standing or parking of vehicles in cemeteries and in public parks. 5. Provide for the removal and storage of vehicles parked or abandoned on highways during snowstorms, floods, fires or other public emergencies, or found unattended where they constitute an obstruction to traffic or any place where stopping, standing or parking is prohibited and for the payment of reasonable charges for such removal and storage by the owner or operator of any such vehicle. 6. Establish a system of truck routes upon which all trucks, tractors, and tractor-trailer combinations having a total gross weight in excess of ten thousand pounds are permitted to travel and operate and excluding such vehicles and combinations from all highways except those which constitute such truck route system. Such exclusion shall not be construed to prevent the delivery or pickup of merchandise or other property along the highways from which such vehicles and combinations are otherwise excluded. Any such system of truck routes shall provide suitable connection with all state routes entering or leaving such town. 7. Temporarily exclude from any portion of any town highway any vehicle with a gross weight of over four or more tons or any vehicle with a gross weight in excess of any designated weight on any wheel, axle, any number of axles, or per inch width of tire when in its opinion such highway would be materially injured by the operation of any such vehicle thereon. Such exclusion shall take effect upon the erection of signs on the section of highway from which such vehicles are excluded, and a notice that such vehicles are excluded shall be published in a newspaper in the county where the highway is situated. The exclusion shall remain in effect until the removal of the signs as directed by the town board. Upon written application by any operator of a vehicle subject to this section, the town board may issue a permit providing appropriate exemption to such vehicle, if it is deemed that said vehicle is performing essential local pickup or delivery services and that a failure to grant such permit would crate hardship. Every such permit shall be carried on the vehicle to which it refers and shall be open to inspection of any peace officer. Such permits shall be for the duration of the restriction imposed under this section. 8. Regulate traffic by means of traffic control signals. 9. Designate any highway or any separate roadway thereof for one-way traffic. 10. Exclude trucks, commercial vehicles, tractors, tractor-trailer combinations and trucks in excess of any designated weight from designated highways. 11. Prohibit, restrict or limit the stopping, standing or parking of vehicles. ARTICLE IV TRAFFIC CONTROL SIGNALS (to be reserved) ARTICLE V ONE-WAY ROADWAY (to be reserved) ARTICLE VI PEDESTRIANS CROSSINGS (to be reserved) ARTICLE VII TURNING MOVEMENTS (to be reserved) ARTICLE VIII STOP AND YIELD INTERSECTIONS Section 80. Through streets (to be reserved) Section 81. Stop Intersections. (a) The intersection of the Klondike Road with Delaware County Highway No. 28 is hereby designated as a Stop intersection and a Stop sign shall be erected on the Klondike Road at its entrance to said intersection from the west. (b) The intersection of the Charles Medlar Road with Delaware County Highway No. 28 is hereby designated as a Stop intersection and a Stop sign shall be erected on the Charles Medlar Road at its entrance to said intersection from the north. (c) The intersection of the Biffar Road with the Delaware County Highway No. 28 is hereby designated as a Stop intersection and a Stop sign shall be erected on the Biffar Road as its entrance to said intersection from the east. (d) The intersection of Railroad Avenue (which extends from East Branch to Fishs Eddy on the former O & W right of way ) with Delaware County Highway No. 28 is hereby designated as a Stop intersection and a Stop sign shall be erected on Railroad Avenue at its entrance to said intersection from the north. (e) The intersection of the Bojo Road with Delaware County Highway No. 28 is hereby designated as a Stop intersection and Stop signs shall be erected on the Bojo Road at its entrance to said intersection from the east and west. (f) The intersection of Trailer Street with Delaware County Highway No. 28 is hereby designated as a Stop intersection and a Stop sign shall be erected on Trailer Street at its entrance to said intersection from the north (g) The intersection of Railroad Avenue (in East Branch) with School Street is hereby designated as a Stop intersection and a Stop sign shall be erected on Railroad Avenue at its entrance to said intersection from the west. (h) The intersection of Railroad Avenue (in East Branch) with Main Street is hereby designated as a Stop intersection and a Stop sign shall be erected on Railroad Avenue at its entrance to said intersection from the west. Section 82. Yield intersections. (a) The intersection of the Hubbell Hill Road with Delaware County Highway No. 28 is hereby designated as a Yield intersection and a Yield sign shall be erected on Hubbell Hill Road at its entrance to said intersection from the North. (b) The intersection of the Hubbell Hill road with Main Street is hereby designated as a Yield intersection and a Yield sign shall be erected on Hubbell Hill Road at its entrance to said intersection from the north. (c) The intersection of the Hubbell Hill Road with Railroad Avenue is hereby designated as a Yield intersection and a Yield sign shall be erected on Hubbell Hill Road at its entrance to said intersection from the east. The intersection of Ridge Road with Main Street is hereby designated as a Yield intersection and a Yield sign shall be erected on Ridge Road at its entrance to said intersection from the east. (f) The intersection of River Road with Main Street is hereby designated as a Yield intersection and a Yield sign shall be erected on River Road at its entrance to said intersection from the west. (g) The intersection of Back Street with Railroad Avenue is hereby designated as a Yield intersection and a Yield sign shall be erected on Back Street at its entrance to said intersection from the north. (h) The intersection of Carcass Brook Road with Baxter Brook Road is hereby designated as a Yield intersection and a Yield sign shall be erected on Carcass Brook Road at its entrance to said intersection from the west. (I) The intersection of the Charles Medlar Road with the Burnwood Road is hereby designated as Yield intersection and a Yield sign shall be erected on the Charles Medlar Road at its entrance to said intersection from the south. (j) The intersection of Burnwood Road with Methol Road is hereby designated as a Yield intersection and a Yield sign shall be erected on Burnwood Road at its entrance to said intersection from the south. (k) The intersection of the Arlyn Milk Road with the Biffar Road is hereby designated as a Yield intersection and a Yield sign shall be erected on the Arlyn Milk Road at its entrance to said intersection from the north. (l) The intersection of the John Milk Road with Delaware County Highway No. 28 is hereby designated as a Yield intersection and a Yield sign shall be erected on the John Milk Road at its entrance to said intersection from the west. (m) The intersection of the Anderson Road with the John Milk Road is hereby designated as a Yield intersection and a Yield sign shall be erected on the Anderson Road at its entrance to said intersection from the west. (n) The intersection of the John Milk Road with the Klondike Road is hereby designated as a Yield intersection and a Yield sign shall be erected on the John Milk road at its entrance to said intersection from the south. (o) The intersection of the Shea Road with the Klondike Road is hereby designated as a Yield intersection and a Yield sign shall be erected on the Shea Road at its entrance to said intersection from the north. (p) The intersection of the Shea Road with Delaware County Highway No. 28 is hereby designated as a Yield intersection and a Yield sign shall be erected on the Shea Road at its entrance to said intersection from the south. (q) The intersection of the John Deck Road with the Klondike Road is hereby designated as a Yield intersection and a Yield sign shall be erected on the John Deck Road at its entrance to said intersection from the south. (r) The intersection of the Nevin Road with the Klondike Road is hereby designated as a Yield intersection and a Yield sign shall be erected on the Nevin Road at its entrance to said intersection from the south. (s) The intersection of the Nevin Road with the John Deck Road is hereby designated as a Yield intersection and a Yield sign shall be erected on the Nevin Road at its entrance from the north. (t) The intersection of the Swope Road with the Silas Tompkins Road is hereby designated as a Yield intersection and a Yield sign shall be erected on the Swope Road at its entrance to said intersection from the south. (u) The intersection of the Bouchouxville Road with the Lordville Road is hereby designated as a Yield intersection and a Yield sign shall be erected on the Bouchouxville Road at its entrance to said intersection from the east. (v) The intersection of the Warren Road with the Lordville Road is hereby designated as a Yield intersection and a Yield sign shall be erected on the Warren Road at its entrance to said intersection from the west. (w) The intersection of the Peas Eddy Road with the Baudendistel Road is hereby designated as a Yield intersection and a Yield sign shall be erected on the Peas Eddy Road at its entrance to said intersection from the east. ARTICLE IX SPEED REGULATIONS. Section 90. Maximum speed limits. (to be reserved) ARTICLE X PARKING, STANDING AND STOPPING (to be reserved) PARKING METERS (to be reserved) ARTICLE XII REMOVAL AND STORAGE OF VEHICLES Section l20. Authority to Impound Vehicles (a) When any vehicle is parked or abandoned on any highway within the town of Hancock during a snowstorm, flood, ire or other public emergency which affects that portion of the public highway upon which said vehicle is parked or abandoned, said vehicle may be removed by Town of Hancock Highway Department. (b) When any vehicle is found unattended on any highway within this town where said vehicle constitutes an obstruction to traffic, said vehicle may be removed by Town of Hancock Highway Department. (c) When any vehicle is parked or abandoned on any highway within this town where stopping, standing or parking is prohibited, said vehicle may be removed by Town of Hancock Highway Department. Section 121. Storage and charges After removal of any vehicle as provided in this article, the Town of Hancock Highway Department may store such vehicle in a suitable place at the expense of the owner. Such owner, or person in charge of the vehicle, may redeem the same upon payment to Town of Hancock Highway Department of the amount of all expenses actually and necessarily incurred in effecting such removal. Removal charges shall not exceed $l5.00 and storage charges shall not exceed $3.00 per day or fraction thereof. Section 122. Notice of Removal The Town of Hancock Highway Department shall without delay report the removal and the disposition of any vehicle removed as provided in this article to the Superintendent of Highways and it shall be the duty of such Superintendent of Highways to ascertain to the extent possible the owner of the vehicle or person having same charge, and to notify him of the removal and disposition of such vehicle and of the amount which will be required to redeem same. ARTICLE XIII TRUCK EXCLUSIONS (to be reserved) ARTICLE XIV TRUCK ROUTE SYSTEM (to be reserved) ARTICLE XV PAVEMENT MARKINGS (to be reserved) ARTICLE XVI SAFETY ZONES (to be reserved) ARTICLE XVII CENTER LINE ALLOCATIONS (to be reserved) ARTICLE XVIII LANE DESIGNATION (to be reserved) ARTICLE XXX PENALTIES (to be reserved) ARTICLE XXXI REPEAL OF PRIOR ORDINANCES Section 310. Ordinances repealed; general. All prior ordinances repealed or parts of ordinances of this town regulating traffic are hereby repealed , except that this repeal shall not affect or prevent the prosecution or punishment of any person for any act done or committed in violation of any ordinance hereby repealed prior to the taking effect of this ordinance. ARTICLE XXXII EFFECT OF ORDINANCE Section 320. Constitutionality. If any part or parts of this ordinance are, for any reason held to be invalid, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this ordinance. Section 32l. Time to take effect. (a) This ordinance shall take effect from and after the lst day of July, l967, except those parts, if any, which are subject to approval under Section l684 of the Vehicle and Traffic Law and Section 46 of the Highway Law of the State of New York. (b) Any part or parts of this ordinance which are subject to approval under Section l684 of the Vehicle and Traffic Law and Section 46 of the Highway Law of the State of New York shall take effect from and after the day on which approval in writing is received from both the New York State Traffic Commission and the New York State Department of Public Works. BY ORDER OF THE TOWN BOARD OF THE TOWN OF HANCOCK BY: Florence A. Whiting (s) Florence A. Whiting, Town Clerk

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