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Local Law No. 4 - 2016
This local law shall be known as the “Amendment to the Restriction of Truck Traffic from Hickory
Grove Drive East, Rockland Avenue and a section of Myrtle Boulevard Law by Adding Rocky Road
thereto” Law.
BE IT ENACTED by the Town Board of the Town of Mamaroneck
Section 1 – Purpose:
On March 2, 2016, the Town Board, acting pursuant to the authority given to it by section 1660 (a)
(17) of the New York Vehicle and Traffic Law, passed Local Law No. 2-2016 which banned heavy
trucks from traveling on Hickory Grove Drive East, Rockland Avenue and the section of Myrtle
Boulevard described below because these streets are in proximity to the Fenimore Road exit from
Interstate Route 95 and the industrial district of the Village of Mamaroneck, resulting in major
truck traffic on these streets as truck drivers either seek major thoroughfares such as Weaver
Street, or to return to the entrance to Interstate Route 95. The Town Board neglected
inadvertently to include Rocky Road as one of the streets from which large trucks should be
banned. In also assumed but did not include in the local law an exemption for heavy motor
vehicles owned or operated by governmental or public utilities. This amendment corrects those
oversights.
Section 2 – Creation of a Ban on Truck Traffic on Certain Streets:
(a) No trucks, commercial vehicles, tractors, tractor-trailer combinations, tractor-semitrailer
combinations, or tractor-trailer-semitrailer combinations weighing in excess of eleven (11) tons
shall be permitted to drive upon Hickory Grove Drive East, Rockland Avenue, Rocky Road and the
section of Myrtle Boulevard lying between its intersections with Weaver Street and Lakeside
Drive. This prohibition shall not be construed as preventing the delivery or pickup of merchandise
or other property from parcels that abut the streets or section thereof from which such vehicles
or combination of vehicles is otherwise excluded pursuant to this law.
(b) This local law shall not apply to motor vehicles meeting the description contained in
paragraph (a) of this section that are owned or operated by (i) the United States of America, or
the State of New York, or any City, County, Town, Village or School District located in the State of
New York, or (ii) by any agency, authority, board, department, division or service of any of the
entities described in paragraph (b)(i) of this section, or (iii) by public utility companies or (iv) by
independent contractors engaged by any of the entities described in paragraph (b) (i), (ii) or (iii) of
this section.
Section 3- Violation:
A violation of this local law shall be punishable by a fine of $250.
Section 4 – Severability:
Should any provision of this Local Law be declared invalid or unconstitutional by any court of
competent jurisdiction, such declaration of unconstitutionality or invalidity shall not affect any
other provisions of this Local Law, which may be implemented without the invalid or
unconstitutional provisions.
Section 5 – Effective Date:
This Local Law shall become effective upon filing with the Secretary of State.