Traffic and Parking Regulations

EMPLOYEE

Refund Schedule

A student who officially withdraws from college or chooses NOT to continue to make use of campus parking is eligible to receive a parking fee refund. The registration fee is non-refundable. Students who do not return for the spring semester may request a refund for that portion until the end of the 2nd week of spring semester. All parking refunds will be made in accordance with applicable Federal Title IV regulation and/or SUNY policies in the same percentage as tuition. The parking tag must be returned to the Student Service Center.

NOTE:

• All refunds will include New York State and local sales taxes.
• Withdrawal date will be the official withdrawal form date as recorded by the Registrar's Office.

Second Vehicle Provision

Only one parking fee will be charged to the owner of two or more vehicles if the following provisions are met:

• each vehicle must be registered and display proper validation
• only one registered vehicle may be parked on college property at any given time

Two or more vehicles owned by the same person may be parked on college property at the same time provided a parking fee has been paid for each registered vehicle or a guest pass has been issued.

Special Notice

Any vehicle which will be operated on or parked on the campus of SUNY College of Technology at Canton must be registered.

The parking fee is assessed to all students. The parking fee and registration fee are subject to New York State and local taxes payable at the Student Service Center.

Family members of faculty/staff enrolled as students must pay the parking and registration fee per schedule and park in designated student lots.

Faculty/Staff/Students

In the event it becomes necessary to operate a vehicle on campus, other than the vehicle you have registered (temporary basis, i.e. vehicle broke down, repairs to vehicle, etc.) a temporary registration is required. You may obtain a temporary registration at the University Police Department (open 7 days a week/24 hrs. a day), or at the One-Hop Shop in the Miller Campus Center (Mon-Fri during business hours).

Visitors

All visitors are required to register their vehicles. This can be accomplished by stopping at the University Police Department or the One-Hop Shop.

Payment

There is an annual fee of $10.00 for employees for each vehicle registered and is payable on or before October 31.

When Deductions May be Made from Salary or Wages

1. When an officer or employee accumulates $25.00 or more in unpaid fines;
2. When an officer or employee leaves state service; and
3. Each campus may clear all remaining unpaid traffic fines by deduction from salary or wages, regardless of the amount, during the months of June and August.

Tickets - Dismissals/Appeals

To appeal a parking ticket charge, fine must be paid and appeal hearing requested within five business days of date of charge.

Questions relating to dismissals of tickets must be addressed to University Police supervisory personnel.

571.1 Registration of Vehicles

571.2 Parking Regulations

1. 1. No person shall park a vehicle in any area except those areas specifically designated as motor vehicle lots or spaces. Where campus parking areas have been designated, respectively, for students, employees or visitors, as the case may be, no motor vehicle shall be parked in a designated parking area other than the parking area to which such registrant or visitor has been assigned. Special parking permission may be granted in extraordinary circumstances by the Chief of University Police. The Chief of University Police may also restrict parking in designated areas due to extraordinary circumstances such as weather conditions, special campus events, construction, etc., provided that notice of such restrictions be published in campus communications and/or appropriate signs be erected.
      
      
      1. All students will be required to park in student parking lots 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 13 or 24 or any other area as designed by the Chief of University Police. Students may also park in that portion of French Hall designated "15 Minute Temporary Parking With Flashers On." Commuter students may also park in that portion of Miller Campus Center parking lot designated as "Commuter Student Parking."
      2. Students are not to park in the following areas at any time. Violators will be ticketed and their vehicles may be towed away at the owner's expense:
         
         • East and west side of Nevaldine Hall;
         • Service drive and parking area east of Chaney Dining Center;
         • Service drive and parking area east of each Residence Hall;
         • Wicks and McArthur Parking Lot 5 in its entirety;
         • French Hall Parking Lot;
         • No student shall park or cause a vehicle to be parked on the premises of the University during periods when the College is not in session;
         • On any area of the Academic Plaza;
         • Dana Hall Parking Lot;
         • East of Southworth Library;
         • Cook Hall parking lot;
         • Any portion of Cornell Drive;
         • Newell Hall parking lot;
         • Cooper Complex parking lot;
         • University Police parking lot;
         • Northeast side of Campus Center.
      3. All employees assigned to Payson Hall, Cook Hall, Richard W. Miller Campus Center, Wicks Hall, and the Faculty Office Building will park in parking lot 5, 6 or 7. Employees with special permits issued by Chief of University Police can park in Miller Campus Center parking lot. Residence hall directors of Heritage, Rushton and Mohawk Residence Halls will park in designated areas of the service drives on the east side of each hall. Smith Residence Hall Director and custodial staff will park in parking lot 1. Custodial staff of Heritage, Rushton and Mohawk residence halls will park in designated areas of the service drives on the east side of each hall. Chaney Dining Center employees will park in the parking area on the southeast side of Chaney Dining Hall. Southworth Library employees will park on the east side of Southworth Library. Nevaldine Hall employees will park on either the east or west side of that building, lots 10A and 10B. Cooper Service Building employees will park in designated areas of that building's parking lot. French Hall employees will park in the French Hall parking lot or lot 6 or 7. University Police employees will park in the parking lot adjacent to the University Police building. Veterinary Science building employees will park in Nevaldine parking lot or Newell parking lot.
      4. Employees are not to park in the following areas at any time. Violators will be ticketed and their vehicles may be towed away at the owner's expense.
         
         1. any area designated in paragraph (a)(1) of this section, except student parking lots 6 and 7; or;
         2. on any area of the academic plaza; or;
         3. on any portion of Cornell Drive;
   2. No person shall park a motor vehicle within their designated parking area other than within the space for the parking or standing of a motor vehicle as indicated by posted signs, pavement markings, or painted lines restricting or limiting such parking.

No person shall park a vehicle on the premises of the university in such a manner as to interfere with the use of a fire hydrant, fire lane, or other emergency zone, create any other hazard or unreasonably interfere with the free and proper use of a roadway or pedestrian way. Any person, except those having express permission of the Chief of University Police or designee, who parks in areas restricted by signs or fails to properly register their vehicle, will be ticketed and their vehicle may be towed away at the owner's expense.

1. No person shall park or cause a vehicle to be parked in spaces marked as handicapped parking spaces unless an appropriate permit for handicapped parking is displayed.

571 3. Traffic Regulations

1. 1. Operation of vehicles on or off campus must conform with all State and municipal regulations as well as college regulations. The Vehicle and Traffic Law shall apply upon such premises notwithstanding any references in such law to public highways, streets, roads or sidewalks.
   2. A complaint regarding any violation of the Vehicle and Traffic Law or any traffic ordinance applicable on such premises shall be processed in accordance with the requirements of applicable law. All violations other than parking are handled through uniform traffic tickets, which are answerable to the Town Justice, Town of Canton.
   3. The speed limit on all college roads is as posted. No person shall drive a vehicle on university streets, roads or highways at a speed greater than is reasonable and prudent under the conditions and having regard to the actual and potential hazards then existing, but in no event shall a person drive a vehicle in excess of 30 miles per hour unless a different speed is authorized and indicated by the university.
   4. All vehicles are excluded from all pedestrian walkways, except service and emergency vehicles specifically authorized by the Chief of University Police, or designee.
   5. The following roadways are designated for one-way traffic:
      1. The southerly Cooper Service Complex Exit Drive for traffic proceeding in a westerly direction only.
      2. The easterly driveway from parking lot 1 for traffic proceeding in a southerly direction only.
      3. The easterly driveway from parking lot 3 for traffic proceeding in a northerly direction only.
   6. The following roadways are designated as stop intersections with the erection of stop signs as indicated below:

1. The following intersections are designated as yield intersections with the erection of yield signs as indicated below:

1. Standing is prohibited on all roadways on the grounds of the SUNY Canton, Village of Canton, St. Lawrence County.

571.4 Enforcement

1. 1. Tickets for violations must be issued only by members of the University Police Department.
   1. A complaint regarding any violation of the campus regulations shall be in writing reciting the time and place of the violation and the title, number or substance of the applicable rule.
   2. The complaint must be affirmed by the officer witnessing the violation and shall be served upon the violator or attached to the vehicle involved.
   3. The complaint shall indicate the amount of the fine assessable for the violation, and advise that if the person charged does not dispute the violation, fines must be paid within five business days after the date the ticket is issued.
   4. The complaint shall recite that, if the charge is disputed, an appeal hearing may be requested after paying the fine within five business days from the date the ticket was issued.
   5. The complaint shall recite that, should the alleged violator fail to act within the period as prescribed in paragraphs (3) and (4) of this subdivision, the complaint is proved and shall warrant that grades and transcripts will be withheld in the case of students and deduction will be made from salary or wages in the case of employees of the college. In all other cases, unpaid fines shall be referred to the office of the Attorney General for collection.
   2. If the violator disputes the charge and requests an appeal hearing, an appeal form will be supplied which will be used to schedule the offender before the campus parking violation appeals board. If the board finds the ticket was unwarranted, then the refund will be authorized. Appeals must be requested within five business days from the date of the ticket. Any person who does not appear before his or her scheduled appeals board meeting will forfeit his or her right of appeal. This means that the complaint is proved.
   3. The penalty for violation of these regulations is:
   1. a $15 fine for each violation, and
   2. a $50 fine for violation of a handicapped designated space.

1. Upon finding that five campus parking violations have been incurred during an academic year, the campus motor vehicle registration may be revoked with a loss of parking privileges for the balance of the academic year and may result in the vehicle being towed from the campus at the violators expense.

   Three or more unanswered complaints in an 18-month period by the same person regarding violations of a campus parking rule, shall result in a referral to the New York State Commissioner of Motor Vehicles for review in considering the renewal of an operators license and/or a motor vehicle registration, and the imposition of a fee as approved by the campus president or designee, or by the Board of Trustees, as the case may be, to meet the administrative costs of such referral.

SECTION 5. Appeals Board

1. 1. The campus president or designee shall designate a hearing officer or board not to exceed three persons to hear complaints for violation of campus traffic and parking regulations enforceable on campus. Such hearing officer or board shall not be bound by the rules of evidence but may hear or receive any testimony or evidence directly relevant and material to the issues presented. The board will be comprised of a panel of six persons as follows: two students, two faculty, and two classified staff. Any three persons, one from each constituency, shall be present to hear appeals. At the conclusion of the hearing or not later than five days thereafter, such hearing board shall file a report. A notice of the decision shall be promptly transmitted to the violator. The report shall include:
   1. the name and address of the alleged violator;
   2. the time and place when the complaint was issued;
   3. the campus rule violated;
   4. a concise statement of the facts established on the hearing based upon the testimony or other evidence offered;
   5. the time and place of the hearing;
   6. the name(s) of all witnesses;
   7. each adjournment, stating upon whose application and to what time and place it was made; and
   8. the decision (guilty or not guilty) of the hearing board.

   The campus parking violation appeals board will be responsible for administration of this section. This board will meet at the call of the chairperson.

   No excuses will be accepted because of ignorance of the vehicle registration, traffic and parking regulations.