N.Y. Vehicle & Traffic Law § 1640-a: Traffic regulations at parking areas and driveways of hospitals, shopping centers, office buildings and office building complexes, places...

§ 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.