§ 1640 — Traffic regulations in all cities and villages

New York § 1640

• Jurisdiction: New York
• Law VAT: Vehicle & Traffic
• Title 8: Respective Powers of State and Local Authorities
• Art. 39: Regulation of Traffic By Cities and Villages

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§ 1640. Traffic regulations in all cities and villages. (a) The\nlegislative body of any city or village, with respect to highways (which\nterm for the purposes of this section shall include private roads open\nto public motor vehicle traffic) in such city or village; subject to the\nlimitations imposed by section sixteen hundred eighty-four may by local\nlaw, ordinance, order, rule or regulation:\n 1. Designate through highways and order stop signs, flashing signals\nor yield signs erected at specified entrances thereto or designate any\nintersection as a stop intersection or a yield intersection and order\nlike signs or signals at one or more entrances to such intersection.\n 2. Prohibit or regulate the turning of vehicles or specified types of\nvehicles at intersections or other designated locations.\n 3. Regulate the crossing of any roadway by pedestrians.\n 4. Designate any highway or any separate roadway thereof for one-way\ntraffic.\n 5. Exclude trucks, commercial vehicles, tractors, tractor-trailer\ncombinations, tractor-semitrailer combinations, or\ntractor-trailer-semitrailer combinations from highways specified by such\nlegislative body. Such exclusion shall not be construed to prevent the\ndelivery or pickup of merchandise or other property along the highways\nfrom which such vehicles and combinations are otherwise excluded.\n 6. Prohibit, restrict or limit the stopping, standing or parking of\nvehicles; provided, however, that a vehicle may not be found to be in\nviolation of a parking regulation if it is parked at a broken parking\nmeter at a time when metered parking is authorized.\n 7. Determine those highways or portions of highways which shall be\nmarked to indicate where overtaking and passing or driving to the left\nof or crossing such markings would be especially hazardous in accordance\nwith the standards, minimum warrants and sign or marking specifications\nestablished by the department of transportation.\n 8. Designate safety zones.\n 9. Provide for the installation, operation, maintenance, policing, and\nsupervision of parking meters, establish parking time limits at such\nmeters, designate hours of operation of such meters, and, except as\nprovided in section twelve hundred three-h of this chapter, fix and\nrequire the payment of fees applicable to parking where such meters are\nin operation. Such fees shall be paid to such city or village and\ncredited to its general fund, unless a different disposition prescribed\nby local law or ordinance enacted prior to or after the effective date\nof this section.\n 10. Establish a system of truck routes upon which all trucks,\ntractors, and tractor-trailer combinations having a total gross weight\nin excess of ten thousand pounds are permitted to travel and operate and\nexcluding such vehicles and combinations from all highways except those\nwhich constitute such truck route system. Such exclusion shall not be\nconstrued to prevent the delivery or pick up of merchandise or other\nproperty along the highways from which such vehicles and combinations\nare otherwise excluded. Any such system of truck routes shall provide\nsuitable connection with all state routes entering or leaving such city\nor village.\n 11. Regulate traffic by means of traffic-control signals.\n 12. License, regulate or prohibit speed contests, races, exhibitions\nof speed, processions, assemblages or parades. Whenever such a speed\ncontest, race, exhibition of speed, procession, assemblage or parade\nauthorized by a local authority will block the movement of traffic on a\nstate highway maintained by the state, or on a highway which connects\ntwo state highways maintained by the state to make a through route, for\na period in excess of ten minutes, such authority must, prior to such\nblocking, provide and designate with conspicuous signs a detour adequate\nto prevent unreasonable delay in the movement of traffic on said highway\nmaintained by the state.\n 13. Prohibit or regulate the operation and the stopping, standing or\nparking of vehicles in cemeteries and in public parks.\n 14. Provide for the removal and storage of vehicles parked or\nabandoned on highways during snowstorms, floods, fires or other public\nemergencies, or found unattended where they constitute an obstruction to\ntraffic or any place where stopping, standing or parking is prohibited,\nand for the payment of reasonable charges for such removal and storage\nby the owner or operator of any such vehicle.\n 15. Provide for the establishment, operation, policing and supervision\nof a prepaid parking permit system, establishing parking time limits for\nsuch permits and fix and require the payment of fees applicable to\nparking where such a prepaid permit parking system is in operation. Such\nfees shall be paid to the city of Albany and credited to its general\nfunds, unless a different disposition prescribed by local law is\nenacted. A prepaid parking permit system may not be established at any\nlocation at which parking is subject to a parking meter fee. The\nprovisions of this paragraph shall only be applicable for the city of\nAlbany.\n 16. Adopt such additional reasonable local laws, ordinances, orders,\nrules and regulations with respect to traffic as local conditions may\nrequire subject to the limitations contained in the various laws of this\nstate.\n 17. Make special provisions with relation to stopping, standing or\nparking of vehicles registered pursuant to section four hundred four-a\nof this chapter or those possessing a special vehicle identification\nparking permit issued in accordance with section one thousand two\nhundred three-a of this chapter.\n 18. Declare a snow emergency and designate any highway or portion\nthereof as a snow emergency route.\n 19. Prohibit vehicles engaged in the retail sale of frozen desserts as\nthat term is defined in subdivision thirty-seven of section three\nhundred seventy-five of this chapter directly to pedestrians from\nstopping for the purpose of such sales on any highway within such city\nor village, or on all such highways. Nothing herein shall be construed\nto prohibit the operator of such vehicle from stopping such vehicle off\nof such highway, in a safe manner, for the sole purpose of delivering\nsuch retail product directly to the residence of a consumer or to the\nbusiness address of a customer of such retailer.\n 20. Exclude trucks, commercial vehicles, tractors, tractor-trailer\ncombinations, tractor-semitrailer combinations, or\ntractor-trailer-semitrailer combinations in excess of any designated\nweight, designated length, designated height, or eight feet in width,\nfrom highways or set limits on hours of operation of such vehicles on\nparticular city or village highways or segments of such highways. Such\nexclusion shall not be construed to prevent the delivery or pickup of\nmerchandise or other property along the highways from which such\nvehicles or combinations are otherwise excluded.\n 21. Serve notice of a violation of any provision of local law or\nordinance relating to the prevention of noise pollution caused by an\naudible motor vehicle burglar alarm and over which the city or village\nhas jurisdiction upon the owner of a motor vehicle by affixing such\nnotice to said vehicle in a conspicuous place.\n 22. Prohibit or regulate the stopping, standing and parking of\nvehicles in designated areas reserved for public business at or adjacent\nto a government facility.\n (b) Such a legislative body also may by local law, ordinance, order,\nrule or regulation prohibit, restrict or limit the stopping, standing or\nparking of vehicles upon property owned or leased by such city or\nvillage.\n (c) Each such legislative body shall cause to be determined, for all\nbridges and elevated structures under its jurisdiction, the capacity in\ntons of two thousand pounds which the bridge or structure will safely\ncarry. At bridges or structures of insufficient strength to carry safely\nthe legal loads permissible by section three hundred eighty-five, the\nlegislative body of such city or village shall cause signs to be erected\nto inform persons of the safe capacity.\n (d) Each such legislative body of a city or a village shall cause\nsigns to be erected to inform persons of the legal overhead clearance\nfor all bridges and structures on highways under its jurisdiction. The\nlegal clearance shall be one foot less than the measured clearance. The\nmeasured clearance shall be the minimum height to the bridge or\nstructure measured vertically from the traveled portion of the roadway.\nOn bridges or structures having fourteen feet or more of measured\nclearance, no such signs shall be required.\n (e) No legislative body of a city or a village shall enact any law\nthat prohibits the use of sidewalks by persons with disabilities who use\neither a wheelchair or an electrically-driven mobility assistance device\nbeing operated or driven by such person.\n