2020 New York Laws
VAT - Vehicle and Traffic
Title 8 - Respective Powers of State and Local Authorities
Article 37 - Regulation of Traffic by Department of Transportation and Other State Authorities
1621 - Other Traffic Regulations on State Highways and on Indian Reservations.

§ 1621. Other  traffic  regulations  on  state  highways and on indian
reservations. (a) The department of transportation with respect to state
highways maintained by the state, the intersection of any highway with a
state highway maintained by the state, and any highway  intersecting  or
meeting  a  state  highway  maintained  by  the state for a distance not
exceeding one hundred feet from such state  highway  maintained  by  the
state, may by order, rule or regulation:
  1.  Designate  through highways and order stop signs, flashing signals
or yield signs erected at specified entrances thereto or  designate  any
intersection  as  a  stop intersection or a yield intersection and order
like signs or signals at one or more entrances to such intersection.
  2. Prohibit, restrict or regulate the operation  of  vehicles  on  any
controlled-access highway or the use of any controlled-access highway by
any  limited  use  vehicle,  pedestrian,  horseback  rider or vehicle or
device moved by human or animal power.
  3. Prohibit or regulate the turning of vehicles or specified types  of
vehicles at intersections or other designated locations.
  4. Authorize angle parking on any roadway.
  5. Regulate the crossing of any roadway by pedestrians.
  6.  Upon  a  roadway  which  is divided into three lanes, allocate the
center lane exclusively for traffic moving in a specified direction.
  7. Order signs erected directing slow-moving traffic, trucks, buses or
specified types of vehicles to use a designated  lane,  or  with  signs,
signals  or  markings designate those lanes to be used by traffic moving
in a particular direction regardless of the center of the roadway.
  8. Designate any highway or any separate roadway thereof  for  one-way
traffic.
  9.  Exclude  trucks,  commercial  vehicles,  tractors, tractor-trailer
combinations,        tractor-semitrailer        combinations,         or
tractor-trailer-semitrailer  combinations from highways specified by the
commissioner. Such exclusion shall  not  be  construed  to  prevent  the
delivery  or  pickup of merchandise or other property along the highways
from which such vehicles and combinations are otherwise excluded.
  10. Prohibit, restrict or limit the stopping, standing or  parking  of
vehicles.
  11.  Determine  those  highways or portions of highways which shall be
marked to indicate where overtaking and passing or driving to  the  left
of  or  crossing  such  markings would be especially hazardous and order
appropriate signs or markings on the roadway to indicate  the  beginning
and end of such zone.
  12. Require the use of lower gears on hills.
  13. Regulate traffic by means of traffic-control signals.
  14. Designate safety zones.
  16. Designate a portion of a slope as a path for the use of bicycles.
  17.  Order signs or markings to identify the portion of the highway to
be used for bicycle travel.
  18. Prohibit, restrict  or  regulate  the  operation  of  limited  use
vehicles on any street or highway.
  19.  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.
  20. Designate preferential use lanes for specified types or classes of
vehicles.
  21.  Declare  a  snow  emergency  and designate any highway or portion
thereof as a snow emergency route.

  22. Exclude trucks,  commercial  vehicles,  tractors,  tractor-trailer
combinations,         tractor-semitrailer        combinations,        or
tractor-trailer-semitrailer combinations in  excess  of  any  designated
weight,  designated  length,  designated height, or eight feet in width,
from  highways  or  set limits on hours of operation of such vehicles on
particular state highways or segments of such highways.  Such  exclusion
shall  not be construed to prevent the delivery or pickup of merchandise
or other property  along  the  highways  from  which  such  vehicles  or
combinations are otherwise excluded.
  23.   Authorize   the   use  of  shoulders  or  slopes  of  any  state
controlled-access highway by motor vehicles.
  (b) The department of transportation shall cause to be determined, for
all bridges and elevated structures under its jurisdiction, the capacity
in tons of two thousand pounds  which  the  bridge  or  structures  will
safely carry. At bridges or structures of insufficient strength to carry
safely  the legal loads permissible by section three hundred eighty-five
of this chapter, the department of transportation shall cause  signs  to
be erected to inform persons of the safe capacity.
  (c)  Such department of transportation shall cause signs to be erected
to inform persons of the legal overhead clearance for  all  bridges  and
elevated  structures  on  highways  under  its  jurisdiction.  The legal
clearance shall be one  foot  less  than  the  measured  clearance.  The
measured  clearance  shall  be  the  minimum  height  to  the  bridge or
structure measured vertically from the traveled portion of the  roadway.
On  bridges  or  structures  having  fourteen  feet  or more of measured
clearance, no such signs shall be required.
  (d) The department of transportation may by order, rule or  regulation
temporarily  exclude  from  any  portion  of  any  state highway and any
highway and bridge constructed or to be constructed by the state on  any
indian  reservation any vehicle with a gross weight of over four or more
tons or any vehicle with a gross weight  in  excess  of  any  designated
weight  on  any  wheel,  axle, any number of axles, or per inch width of
tire when in its opinion such highway would be materially injured by the
operation of any such vehicle thereon. Such exclusion shall take  effect
upon the erection of signs on the section of highway from which vehicles
are  excluded,  and  a  notice  that such vehicles are excluded shall be
published in a newspaper in the county where the  highway  is  situated.
The  exclusion  shall remain in effect until the removal of the signs is
directed by the department of transportation.