Q: We have a curb cut in front of our municipal building. Common sense would dictate that one does not park in front of it, but, well… Is there a requirement that the space in front be designated as a no parking zone?
A: Parking in front of a curb cut is illegal according to state law, so Round Lake doesn’t need to pass a new law in order to prevent people from parking there.
The New York state Vehicle and Traffic Law prohibits standing or parking a vehicle “alongside or obstructing a curb area which has been cut down, lowered or constructed so as to provide accessibility to the sidewalk,” according to David Orr, director of the Cornell Local Roads Program.
Drivers can stop briefly to drop off or pick up passengers.
Options for enforcing that law as it pertains to the curb cut in front of the municipal building are varied and would involve the village attorney and law enforcement.
You or the village board could authorize a sign warning people not to park there without passing a new law, Orr said.
If the village did want to institute a specific no-parking restriction, a regulation would need to be passed under section 1640 of the Vehicle and Traffic Law, and the village attorney would need to be involved.
The village law enforcement and courts would have to enforce the sign and new rule.
Ramps at intersections and designated crosswalks are also no-parking zones according to the Vehicle and Traffic Law, although the law states that crosswalk markings do not have to be present for a portion of road to be considered a crosswalk.
A crosswalk can also be “that part of a roadway at an intersection included within the connections of the lateral lines of the sidewalks on opposite sides of the highway between the curbs or, in the absence of curbs, between the edges of the traversable roadway.”
Orr put it more succinctly, stating that every intersection acts as if it’s a crosswalk.
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