2006 New York Code - Traffic Regulations At Parking Areas And Driveways Of Hospitals, Shopping Centers, Office Buildings And Office Building Complexes, Places Of Public As

 
    § 1640-a.  Traffic  regulations  at  parking  areas  and  driveways of
  hospitals,  shopping  centers,  office  buildings  and  office  building
  complexes,  places  of  public  assembly,  facilities owned or leased by
  not-for-profit  corporations,  private  apartment  complexes  and   fire
  stations;  private  condominium complex; mobile home parks; manufactured
  home parks.  The legislative body of any city or village,  with  respect
  to  the  parking  areas and driveways of a hospital or parking area of a
  shopping center, office building and office building complex or place of
  public assembly, or the parking areas and driveways of facilities  owned
  or  leased  by  a  not-for-profit  corporation  or  the  parking  areas,
  driveways, and private streets or roadways of a private apartment  house
  complex,  private condominium complex, or cooperative apartment complex,
  or the parking areas, private streets, roadways or driveways  of  mobile
  home  parks  or  manufactured  home  parks,  or  the  parking  areas and
  driveways of a fire station, and pursuant to the written request of  the
  owner, the person in general charge of the operation and control of such
  area,  the  fire  chief  of  the  city or village fire department or the
  police chief or the police commissioner of the police department serving
  such area, may, by local law or ordinance:
    1. Order stop signs,  flashing  signals  or  yield  signs  erected  at
  specified  entrance  or exit locations to any such area or designate any
  intersection in  such  area  as  a  stop  intersection  or  as  a  yield
  intersection and order like signs or signals at one or more entrances to
  such intersection.
    2. Regulate traffic in any such area, including regulation by means of
  traffic-control signals.
    2-a.   Notwithstanding  the  provisions  of  section  sixteen  hundred
  forty-three to the contrary, establish maximum speed limits in any  such
  area at not less than fifteen miles per hour.
    3.  Prohibit or regulate the turning of vehicles or specified types of
  vehicles at intersections or other  designated  locations  in  any  such
  area.
    4.  Regulate  the  crossing  of  any  roadway  in  any  such  area  by
  pedestrians.
    5. Designate any  separate  roadway  in  any  such  area  for  one-way
  traffic.
    6.  Prohibit,  regulate,  restrict  or limit the stopping, standing or
  parking of vehicles in specified areas of any such area.
    7. Designate safety zones in any such area.
    8. Provide for the removal and storage of vehicles parked or abandoned
  in any such area  during  snowstorms,  floods,  fires  or  other  public
  emergencies,  or  found  unattended  in  any  such  area, (1) where they
  constitute an obstruction to traffic or (2) 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.
    9. Adopt such additional reasonable rules and regulations with respect
  to traffic and parking in any such area as local conditions may  require
  for the safety and convenience of the public or of the users of any such
  area.
    10.  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. In the case of a college or university,
  as  defined  in section two of the education law, the provisions of this
  section shall apply only upon the written request of the governing  body
  of such college or university.