§ 1660. Traffic regulation in all towns.
(a)The town board of any\ntown with respect to highways outside of villages in any such town, but\nnot including state highways maintained by the state except with respect\nto subdivisions six, eight, nine and ten, subject to the limitations\nimposed by section sixteen hundred eighty-four may by ordinance, order,\nrule or regulation:\n 1. Designate county roads and town highways as through highways and\norder stop signs, flashing signals or yield signs erected on county\nroads or town highways at specified entrances to such through highways\nor designate any intersection except those where one or more entering\nhighways is a state highway maintained by the state as a stop\nintersection or a yield intersection and order like signs or signals at\n
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§ 1660. Traffic regulation in all towns. (a) The town board of any\ntown with respect to highways outside of villages in any such town, but\nnot including state highways maintained by the state except with respect\nto subdivisions six, eight, nine and ten, subject to the limitations\nimposed by section sixteen hundred eighty-four may by ordinance, order,\nrule or regulation:\n 1. Designate county roads and town highways as through highways and\norder stop signs, flashing signals or yield signs erected on county\nroads or town highways at specified entrances to such through highways\nor designate any intersection except those where one or more entering\nhighways is a state highway maintained by the state as a stop\nintersection or a yield intersection and order like signs or signals at\none or more entrances to such intersections.\n 2. Upon a roadway which is divided into three lanes, allocate the\ncenter lane exclusively for traffic moving in a specified direction.\n 3. Order signs erected directing slow-moving traffic, trucks, buses or\nspecified types of vehicles to use a designated lane, or with signs,\nsignals or markings designate those lanes to be used by traffic moving\nin a particular direction regardless of the center of the roadway.\n 4. 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 5. Regulate traffic by means of traffic-control signals.\n 6. (i) License, regulate or prohibit speed contests, races,\nexhibitions of speed, processions, assemblages, or parades. Whenever\nsuch a speed contest, race, exhibition of speed, procession, assemblage\nor parade authorized by a local authority will block the movement of\ntraffic on a state highway maintained by the state, or on a highway\nwhich connects two state highways maintained by the state to make a\nthrough route, for a period in excess of ten minutes, such authority\nmust, prior to such blocking, provide and designate with conspicuous\nsigns a detour adequate to prevent unreasonable delay in the movement of\ntraffic on said state highway maintained by the state.\n (ii) Prohibit vehicles engaged in retail sales 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 town\nor on all such highways. Nothing herein shall be construed to prohibit\nthe operator of such vehicle from stopping such vehicle off of such\nhighway, in a safe manner, for the sole purpose of delivering such\nretail product directly to the residence of a consumer or to the\nbusiness address of a customer of such retailer.\n 7. Prohibit or regulate the operation and the stopping, standing or\nparking of vehicles in cemeteries and in public parks.\n 8. Provide for the removal and storage of vehicles parked or abandoned\non 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 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 a fee applicable to parking where such meters are\nin operation. The town board of any town may exercise these powers on\nbehalf and at the expense of a public parking district with respect to\nhighways outside of villages but within such public parking district, in\nwhich event the fees from such parking meters shall belong to such\ndistrict, and the cost of operation and maintenance thereof shall\nthereafter be borne by such public parking district.\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 pickup 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 town.\n 11. Temporarily exclude from any portion of any town highway any\nvehicle with a gross weight of over four or more tons or any vehicle\nwith a gross weight in excess of any designated weight on any wheel,\naxle, any number of axles, or per inch width of tire when in its opinion\nsuch highway would be materially injured by the operation of any such\nvehicle thereon. Such exclusion shall take effect upon the erection of\nsigns on the section of highway from which such vehicles are excluded,\nand a notice that such vehicles are excluded shall be published in a\nnewspaper in the county where the highway is situated. The exclusion\nshall remain in effect until the removal of the signs as directed by the\ntown board. Upon written application by any operator of a vehicle\nsubject to this section, the town board may issue a permit providing\nappropriate exemption to such vehicle, if it is deemed that said vehicle\nis performing essential local pickup or delivery service and that a\nfailure to grant such permit would create hardship. Every such permit\nmay designate the route to be traversed and contain other reasonable\nrestrictions or conditions deemed necessary. Every such permit shall be\ncarried on the vehicle to which it refers and shall be open to\ninspection of any peace officer, acting pursuant to his special duties,\nor police officer. Such permits shall be for the duration of the\nrestriction imposed under this section.\n 12. Prohibit, restrict or regulate the operation of vehicles on any\ncontrolled-access highway or the use of any controlled-access highway by\nany vehicle, device moved by human power or pedestrian.\n 13. Prohibit or regulate the turning of vehicles or specified types of\nvehicles at intersections or other designated locations.\n 14. Regulate the crossing of any roadway by pedestrians.\n 15. Authorize angle parking on any roadway.\n 16. Designate any highway or any separate roadway thereof for one-way\ntraffic.\n 17. Exclude trucks, commercial vehicles, tractors, tractor-trailer\ncombinations, tractor-semitrailer combinations, or\ntractor-trailer-semitrailer combinations from highways specified by such\ntown board. 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 18. Prohibit, restrict or limit the stopping, standing or parking of\nvehicles.\n 19. Designate safety zones.\n 21. Designate a portion of a slope as a path for the use of bicycles.\n 22. Order signs or markings to identify the portion of the highway to\nbe used for bicycle travel.\n 23. Designate preferential use lanes for specified types or classes of\nvehicles.\n 24. Prohibit, restrict or regulate the operation of limited use\nvehicles on any street or highway.\n 25. Adopt such additional reasonable ordinances, orders, rules and\nregulations with respect to traffic as local conditions may require\nsubject to the limitations contained in the various laws of this state.\n 26. 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 27. Declare a snow emergency and designate any highway or portion\nthereof as a snow emergency route.\n 28. 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 town highways or segments of such highways. Such exclusion\nshall not be construed to prevent the delivery or pickup of merchandise\nor other property along the highways from which such vehicles or\ncombinations are otherwise excluded.\n (b) Each such town board shall cause to be determined, for all bridges\nand elevated structures under its jurisdiction, the capacity in tons of\ntwo thousand pounds which the bridge or structure will safely carry.\nUpon bridges or structures of insufficient strength to carry safely the\nlegal loads permissible by section three hundred eighty-five of this\nchapter, the town board shall cause signs to be erected to inform\npersons of the safe capacity.\n (c) Each such town board shall cause signs to be erected to inform\npersons of the legal overhead clearance for all bridges and elevated\nstructures on highways under its jurisdiction. The legal clearance shall\nbe one foot less than the measured clearance. The measured clearance\nshall be the minimum height to the bridge or structure measured\nvertically from the traveled portion of the roadway. On bridges or\nstructures having fourteen feet or more of measured clearance, no such\nsigns shall be required.\n (d) Such a town board also may by ordinance, order, rule or regulation\nprohibit, restrict or limit the stopping, standing or parking of\nvehicles upon property owned or leased by such town.\n (e) Any town with a population of seven hundred thousand or more may\nby local law or ordinance, provide for the removal and storage of\nvehicles parked on private property upon request of the owner of such\nprivate property, where such vehicles constitute an obstruction to the\nprivate property owner's right of ingress and egress, and for the\npayment of reasonable charges for such removal and storage by the owner\nor operator of any such vehicle. Such local law or ordinance shall be\napplicable only in the unincorporated areas of such town.\n (f) No town shall enact any local law or ordinance to prohibit the use\nof sidewalks by persons with disabilities who use either a wheelchair or\nan electrically-driven mobility assistance device being operated or\ndriven by such person.\n