NY Veh & Traf L § 1640 (2021)
2021 New York Laws VAT - Vehicle and Traffic Title 8 - Respective Powers of State and Local Authorities Article 39 - Regulation of Traffic by Cities and Villages 1640 - Traffic Regulations in All Cities and Villages.

§ 1640. Traffic  regulations  in  all  cities  and  villages.  (a) The legislative body of any city or village, with respect to highways (which term for the purposes of this section shall include private  roads  open to public motor vehicle traffic) in such city or village; subject to the limitations  imposed by section sixteen hundred eighty-four may by local law, ordinance, order, rule or regulation:   1. Designate through highways and order stop signs,  flashing  signals or  yield  signs erected at specified entrances thereto or designate any intersection as a stop intersection or a yield  intersection  and  order like signs or signals at one or more entrances to such intersection.   2.  Prohibit or regulate the turning of vehicles or specified types of vehicles at intersections or other designated locations.   3. Regulate the crossing of any roadway by pedestrians.   4. Designate any highway or any separate roadway thereof  for  one-way traffic.   5.  Exclude  trucks,  commercial  vehicles,  tractors, tractor-trailer combinations,        tractor-semitrailer        combinations,         or tractor-trailer-semitrailer combinations from highways specified by such legislative  body.  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.   6.  Prohibit,  restrict  or limit the stopping, standing or parking of vehicles; provided, however, that a vehicle may not be found  to  be  in violation  of  a  parking regulation if it is parked at a broken parking meter at a time when metered parking is authorized.   7. Determine those highways or portions of  highways  which  shall  be marked  to  indicate where overtaking and passing or driving to the left of or crossing such markings would be especially hazardous in accordance with the standards, minimum warrants and sign or marking  specifications established by the department of transportation.   8. Designate safety zones.   9. Provide for the installation, operation, maintenance, policing, and supervision  of  parking  meters,  establish parking time limits at such meters, designate hours of operation of  such  meters,  and,  except  as provided  in  section  twelve  hundred  three-h of this chapter, fix and require the payment of fees applicable to parking where such meters  are in  operation.  Such  fees  shall  be  paid  to such city or village and credited to its general fund, unless a different disposition  prescribed by  local  law or ordinance enacted prior to or after the effective date of this section.   10. 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 pick up  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 city or village.   11. Regulate traffic by means of traffic-control signals.   12. License, regulate or prohibit speed contests,  races,  exhibitions of  speed,  processions,  assemblages  or parades. Whenever such a speed contest, race, exhibition of speed,  procession,  assemblage  or  parade authorized  by a local authority will block the movement of traffic on a state highway maintained by the state, or on a  highway  which  connects two  state highways maintained by the state 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 highway maintained by the state.   13.  Prohibit  or regulate the operation and the stopping, standing or parking of vehicles in cemeteries and in public parks.   14. 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.   15. Provide for the establishment, operation, policing and supervision of a prepaid parking permit system, establishing parking time limits for such permits and fix and require  the  payment  of  fees  applicable  to parking where such a prepaid permit parking system is in operation. Such fees  shall  be  paid  to the city of Albany and credited to its general funds, unless  a  different  disposition  prescribed  by  local  law  is enacted.  A  prepaid parking permit system may not be established at any location at which parking  is  subject  to  a  parking  meter  fee.  The provisions  of  this  paragraph shall only be applicable for the city of Albany.   16. Adopt such additional reasonable local laws,  ordinances,  orders, rules  and  regulations  with respect to traffic as local conditions may require subject to the limitations contained in the various laws of this state.   17. Make special provisions with relation  to  stopping,  standing  or parking  of  vehicles registered pursuant to section four hundred four-a of this chapter or those possessing  a  special  vehicle  identification parking  permit  issued  in  accordance  with  section  one thousand two hundred three-a of this chapter.   18. Declare a snow emergency and  designate  any  highway  or  portion thereof as a snow emergency route.   19. Prohibit vehicles engaged in the retail sale of frozen desserts as that  term  is  defined  in  subdivision  thirty-seven  of section three hundred seventy-five  of  this  chapter  directly  to  pedestrians  from stopping  for  the purpose of such sales on any highway within such city or village, or on all such highways. Nothing herein shall  be  construed to  prohibit the operator of such vehicle from stopping such vehicle off of such highway, in a safe manner, for the sole  purpose  of  delivering such  retail  product  directly to the residence of a consumer or to the business address of a customer of such retailer.   20. Exclude trucks,  commercial  vehicles,  tractors,  tractor-trailer combinations,         tractor-semitrailer        combinations,        or tractor-trailer-semitrailer combinations in  excess  of  any  designated weight,  designated  length,  designated height, or eight feet in width, from highways or set limits on hours of operation of  such  vehicles  on particular  city  or village highways or segments of such highways. Such exclusion shall not be construed to prevent the delivery  or  pickup  of merchandise  or  other  property  along  the  highways  from  which such vehicles or combinations are otherwise excluded.   21. Serve notice of a violation of  any  provision  of  local  law  or ordinance  relating  to  the  prevention of noise pollution caused by an audible motor vehicle burglar alarm and over which the city  or  village has  jurisdiction  upon  the  owner  of a motor vehicle by affixing such notice to said vehicle in a conspicuous place.   22. Prohibit  or  regulate  the  stopping,  standing  and  parking  of vehicles in designated areas reserved for public business at or adjacent to a government facility.  (b)  Such  a legislative body also may by local law, ordinance, order, rule or regulation prohibit, restrict or limit the stopping, standing or parking of vehicles upon property  owned  or  leased  by  such  city  or village.  (c)  Each  such legislative body shall cause to be determined, for all bridges and elevated structures under its jurisdiction, the capacity  in tons  of  two  thousand pounds which the bridge or structure will safely carry. At bridges or structures of insufficient strength to carry safely the legal loads permissible by section three  hundred  eighty-five,  the legislative body of such city or village shall cause signs to be erected to inform persons of the safe capacity.  (d)  Each  such  legislative  body  of a city or a village shall cause signs to be erected to inform persons of the  legal  overhead  clearance for  all  bridges and structures on highways under its jurisdiction. The legal clearance shall be one foot less than the measured clearance.  The measured  clearance  shall  be  the  minimum  height  to  the  bridge or structure measured vertically from the traveled portion of the  roadway. On  bridges  or  structures  having  fourteen  feet  or more of measured clearance, no such signs shall be required.  (e) No legislative body of a city or a village  shall  enact  any  law that prohibits the use of sidewalks by persons with disabilities who use either a wheelchair or an electrically-driven mobility assistance device being operated or driven by such person.