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N.Y. Vehicle & Traffic Law § 1670: Regulation of traffic within municipal facilities

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  1. Vehicle & Traffic Law
  2. Title 8. Respective Powers of State and Local Authorities
  3. Article 42. Regulation of Traffic By Local Authorities and School Districts

§ 1670. Regulation of traffic within municipal facilities. Any local

authority or school district, with respect to driveways or parking

fields accessory to any school, playground, park, municipal building,

installation or facility, and under the jurisdiction of such local

authority or school district for general regulatory or custodial

purposes, may by ordinance, order, rule or regulation:

1. Prohibit, restrict or limit the stopping, standing or parking of

vehicles.

2. Regulate the direction of traffic.

3. Establish lower maximum speed limits at which vehicles may proceed

than the fifty-five miles per hour statutory maximum speed limit.

4. Adopt such additional reasonable ordinances, orders, rules and

regulations with respect to traffic as local conditions may require

subject to the limitations contained in the various laws of this state.

5. Provide for the removal and storage of vehicles when: (a) parked in

the parking fields or driveways during snowstorms, floods, fires or

other public emergencies; or (b) found unattended in the parking fields

or driveways where they constitute an obstruction to traffic; or (c)

found abandoned in the parking fields or driveways, and for the payment

of reasonable charges for such removal and storage by the owner or

operator of any such vehicle.

6. 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.

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