2010 New York Code
VAT - Vehicle & Traffic
Title 8 - RESPECTIVE POWERS OF STATE AND LOCAL AUTHORITIES
Article 39 - (1640 - 1646) REGULATION OF TRAFFIC BY CITIES AND VILLAGES
1640-A - 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.