§ 1660-A — Traffic regulations at parking areas and driveways of hospitals, shopping centers, office buildings and office building complexes, places...

§ 1660-a. Traffic regulations at parking areas and driveways of\nhospitals, shopping centers, office buildings and office building\ncomplexes, places of public assembly, private apartment complexes, fire\nstations, private condominium complexes, mobile home parks, manufactured\nhome parks, industrial parks and industrial complexes. The town board of\nany town, with respect to the parking areas and driveways of a hospital,\noffice building or office building complex or place of public assembly,\nor parking area of a shopping center or the parking areas and driveways\nof facilities owned or leased by a not-for-profit corporation or the\nparking areas, driveways and private streets or roadways of a private\napartment house complex, private condominium complex or cooperative\napartment complex, or the parking areas, private streets, roadways or\ndriveways of mobile home parks or manufactured home parks, or the\nparking areas and driveways of a fire station, or the parking areas,\nprivate streets, roadways or driveways of an industrial park or\nindustrial complex, and pursuant to the written request of either the\nowner or the person in general charge of the operation and control of\nsuch area, the fire chief of the fire department or the police chief or\nthe police commissioner of the police department serving such area, may,\nby local law or ordinance:\n 1. Order stop signs, flashing signals or yield signs erected at\nentrance 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\nsixty-two-a 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