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
1642 - Additional traffic regulations in cities having a population in excess of one million.

§ 1642. Additional  traffic  regulations in cities having a population
  in excess of one million. (a) In addition to the other powers granted by
  this article, the legislative body of any city having  a  population  in
  excess  of  one  million,  may  by  local  law,  ordinance, order, rule,
  regulation or health  code  provision  prohibit,  restrict  or  regulate
  traffic  on  or  pedestrian  use  of  any  highway  (which term, for the
  purposes of this section, shall include any private road open to  public
  motor  vehicle  traffic) in such city. The provisions of section sixteen
  hundred shall be applicable to  such  local  laws,  ordinances,  orders,
  rules,  regulations, and health code provisions, provided, however, that
  such local laws, ordinances, orders, rules, regulations and health  code
  provisions   shall  supersede  the  provisions  of  this  chapter  where
  inconsistent or in conflict with respect  to  the  following  enumerated
  subjects:
    1. Weights and dimensions of vehicles.
    2. Parking, standing, stopping and backing of vehicles.
    3.  The  prohibition  or  regulation  of  the  use  of  any highway by
  particular vehicles or classes or types  thereof  or  devices  moved  by
  human power.
    4.  Charging of tolls, taxes, fees, licenses or permits for the use of
  the highway or any  of  its  parts,  where  the  imposition  thereof  is
  authorized by law.
    5. Establishment of minimum speed limits at which vehicles may proceed
  on or along such highways.
    6. Operation of authorized emergency vehicles.
    7. Control of persons and equipment engaged in work on the highway.
    8. Hitchhiking and commercial activities.
    9.  Use  of  medial  strips  and dividing malls or sections and use of
  shoulders of the highway.
    10. Right of way of vehicles and pedestrians.
    11. Use of the highway by pedestrians, equestrians and animals.
    12. Turning of vehicles.
    13. Regulation of the direction of the movement of traffic and the use
  of traffic lanes.
    14. Regulation  of  the  use  of  horns,  lights  and  other  required
  equipment of vehicles.
    15. Towing and pushing of vehicles, including, but not limited to, the
  establishment  of  minimum  insurance  levels  for and the licensing and
  regulation of persons engaged in the business of towing, and the  fixing
  of maximum charges to be made by such persons for the towing and storage
  of disabled vehicles.
    16. Objects projecting or hanging outside or on the top of vehicles.
    17. Entering and driving off the highway, its roadways, medial strips,
  dividing malls and shoulders.
    18.   The   prohibition   or  regulation  of  speed  contests,  races,
  exhibitions of speed, processions or parades.
    19. Littering the highway.
    20. Vehicles  illegally  parked,  stopped  or  standing,  or  vehicles
  involved  in  accidents,  including, but not limited to, the removal and
  storage of such vehicles, the fixing of reasonable charges, to  be  paid
  by  the  owner,  operator  or  person  entitled  to possession, for such
  removal and storage  and  for  other  expenses  incurred  in  connection
  therewith,  the  creation of liens on such vehicles for such charges and
  expenses, the enforcement of such liens, the determination of  ownership
  or  right  to possession of such vehicles, the time before such vehicles
  are  deemed  abandoned  vehicles  pursuant  to  section  twelve  hundred
  twenty-four  of  this  chapter,  and  the disposition of the proceeds of
  sales held pursuant to said section.

21.   Transportation   of   combustibles,    chemicals,    explosives,
  inflammables,  or  other  dangerous  substances,  articles, compounds or
  mixtures, including, but not limited to, dangerous articles, as  defined
  in section three hundred eighty of this chapter.
    22. Traffic signal legend applicable to pedestrians and use of arrows.
    23.  Prohibit,  restrict  or  regulate  the  operation  of limited use
  vehicles on any street or highway.
    24. Prohibition of the operation  of  motorcycles  during  the  period
  between  nine post meridian through eight ante meridian along designated
  streets or parts of streets on which the properties fronting thereon are
  zoned for residential uses. Provided that  notice  of  such  prohibition
  shall  be given by the posting of suitable signs at the entrance to each
  such street or part thereof and that no such prohibition shall apply  to
  a  motorcycle  being  operated  thereon  for  the purpose or as a direct
  incident of law enforcement; crime prevention; detection; prevention  or
  relief of any condition which may threaten the health, safety or welfare
  of persons or property; or direct travel to or from employment.
    25.  Parking, standing and stopping 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.
    26. (a) Establishment of maximum speed limits below twenty-five  miles
  per  hour  at  which  motor  vehicles may proceed on or along designated
  highways within such city  for  the  explicit  purpose  of  implementing
  traffic  calming  measures  as  such  term  is defined herein; provided,
  however, that no speed limit shall be set below fifteen miles  per  hour
  nor  shall  such  speed  limit  be established where the traffic calming
  measure to be implemented consists solely of  a  traffic  control  sign.
  Establishment  of  such  a  speed  limit  shall, where applicable, be in
  compliance with the provisions of sections sixteen  hundred  twenty-four
  and  sixteen  hundred  eighty-four  of  this  chapter. Nothing contained
  herein shall be deemed to alter or affect the  establishment  of  school
  speed  limits  pursuant  to  the  provisions  of section sixteen hundred
  forty-three of  this  article.  For  the  purposes  of  this  paragraph,
  "traffic  calming  measures" shall mean any physical engineering measure
  or measures that reduce the negative effects of motor vehicle use, alter
  driver behavior and improve conditions for  non-motorized  street  users
  such as pedestrians and bicyclists.
    (b) Any city establishing maximum speed limits below twenty-five miles
  per  hour  pursuant  to  clause  (i) of this subparagraph shall submit a
  report to the governor, the temporary president of the  senate  and  the
  speaker  of  the  assembly on or before March first, two thousand two on
  the results of using traffic calming measures  and  speed  limits  lower
  than  twenty-five  miles  per hour as authorized by this paragraph. Such
  report shall include, but not be limited to the following:
    (i) a description of the designated  highways  where  traffic  calming
  measures and a lower speed limit were established and
    (ii)  a  description of the specific traffic calming measures used and
  the maximum speed limit established.
    (b) The police commissioner of any such city may,  in  any  emergency,
  suspend  within  such  city  or  any  part  thereof,  for  a  period  of
  forty-eight hours, any provision of title seven of this chapter  or  any
  local law, ordinance, order, rule or regulation adopted pursuant to this
  article.  In  the  event of any such suspension, the police commissioner
  shall forthwith give notice thereof to the official, board or agency  of
  such  city  having  jurisdiction  to  promulgate  traffic regulations in
  relation to any place affected by such suspension.