(A) Establishment. The Town Board of Trustees and the Town Administrator, by motion or resolution, are hereby authorized to determine the location of passenger and freight curb loading zones, and shall have placed and maintained appropriate signs indicating the same and stating the hours during which the provisions of this section are applicable. By the same authority, such loading zones may be changed or discontinued.
(B) Costs. When such a loading zone is established on request of any person, the town shall not have signs placed until the applicant has paid to the town an amount of money established by the Board of Trustees to be adequate to reimburse the town for all costs of establishing and signing same.
(C) Passenger curb loading zones. No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle for any purpose or period of time other than for the expeditious loading or unloading of passengers in any place marked as a passenger curb loading zone during hours when the regulations applicable to such curb loading zone are effective and then only for a period not to exceed three minutes.
(D) Freight curb loading zones.
(1) Stopping prohibited. No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle for any purpose or length of time other than for the expeditious unloading and delivery or pick up and loading of materials in any place marked as a freight curb loading zone during hours when the provisions applicable to such zones are in effect. In no case shall the stop for loading or unloading of materials exceed 30 minutes.
(2) Passengers. The driver of a passenger vehicle may stop temporarily at a place marked as a freight curb loading zone for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading passengers when such stopping does not interfere with any motor vehicle used for the transportation of materials which is waiting to enter or about to enter such zone.
(Prior Code, § 6-5-9)