§ 1640-A — Traffic regulations at parking areas and driveways of hospitals, shopping centers, office buildings and office building complexes, places...

§ 1640-a. Traffic regulations at parking areas and driveways of\nhospitals, shopping centers, office buildings and office building\ncomplexes, places of public assembly, facilities owned or leased by\nnot-for-profit corporations, private apartment complexes and fire\nstations; private condominium complex; mobile home parks; manufactured\nhome parks. The legislative body of any city or village, with respect to\nthe parking areas and driveways of a hospital or parking area of a\nshopping center, office building and office building complex or place of\npublic assembly, or the parking areas and driveways of facilities owned\nor leased by a not-for-profit corporation or the parking areas,\ndriveways, and private streets or roadways of a private apartment house\ncomplex, private condominium complex, or cooperative apartment complex,\nor the parking areas, private streets, roadways or driveways of mobile\nhome parks or manufactured home parks, or the parking areas and\ndriveways of a fire station, and pursuant to the written request of the\nowner, the person in general charge of the operation and control of such\narea, the fire chief of the city or village fire department or the\npolice chief or the police commissioner of the police department serving\nsuch area, may, by local law or ordinance:\n 1. Order stop signs, flashing signals or yield signs erected at\nspecified entrance or exit locations to any such area or designate any\nintersection in such area as a stop intersection or as a yield\nintersection and order like signs or signals at one or more entrances to\nsuch intersection.\n 2. Regulate traffic in any such area, including regulation by means of\ntraffic-control signals.\n 2-a. Notwithstanding the provisions of section sixteen hundred\nforty-three to the contrary, establish maximum speed limits in any such\narea at not less than fifteen miles per hour.\n 3. Prohibit or regulate the turning of vehicles or specified types of\nvehicles at intersections or other designated locations in any such\narea.\n 4. Regulate the crossing of any roadway in any such area by\npedestrians.\n 5. Designate any separate roadway in any such area for one-way\ntraffic.\n 6. Prohibit, regulate, restrict or limit the stopping, standing or\nparking of vehicles in specified areas of any such area.\n 7. Designate safety zones in any such area.\n 8. Provide for the removal and storage of vehicles parked or abandoned\nin any such area during snowstorms, floods, fires or other public\nemergencies, or found unattended in any such area, (1) where they\nconstitute an obstruction to traffic or (2) where stopping, standing or\nparking is prohibited, and for the payment of reasonable charges for\nsuch removal and storage by the owner or operator of any such vehicle.\n 9. Adopt such additional reasonable rules and regulations with respect\nto traffic and parking in any such area as local conditions may require\nfor the safety and convenience of the public or of the users of any such\narea.\n 10. 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 In the case of a college or university, as defined in section two of\nthe education law, the provisions of this section shall apply only upon\nthe written request of the governing body of such college or university.\n