N.Y. Vehicle & Traffic Law § 1683: Signs or markings required

§ 1683. Signs or markings required. (a) No ordinance, order, rule or

regulation made by any local authority under the powers conferred by

this title shall be effective until signs or markings giving notice

thereof are posted, except under such conditions as may be authorized in

writing by the department of transportation or as otherwise provided in

subsection (b) of this section, if the effect of such order, ordinance,

rule or regulation is to:

1. Designate through highways and order stop signs, flashing signals

or yield signs erected at specified entrances thereto or designated 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 vehicle, device moved by human power or pedestrian.

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. Upon a roadway which is divided into three lanes, allocate the

center lane exclusively for traffic moving in a specified direction.

6. Designate any highway or separate roadway thereof for one-way

traffic.

7. Exclude trucks, commercial vehicles, tractors, tractor-trailer

combinations or trucks in excess of any designated weight from

designated highway.

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

vehicles.

9. Designate no-passing zones and no changing lane zones and indicate

such zones in accordance with the standards, minimum warrants and sign

or marking specifications established by the department of

transportation.

10. Designate safety zones.

11. Establish a system of truck routes upon which all trucks, tractors

and tractor-trailer combinations having a total gross weight in excess

of ten thousand pounds are permitted to travel and operate and excluding

such vehicles and combinations from all highways except those which

constitute such truck route system.

12. Prohibit, regulate or restrict the operation or the stopping,

standing or parking of vehicles on any bridge or in any tunnel, or the

use of any bridge or tunnel by any vehicle, device moved by human power

or pedestrian.

13. Prohibit and regulate the operation and the stopping, standing or

parking of vehicles in cemeteries and in public parks.

14. Exclude all trucks, tractors and tractor-trailer combinations in

excess of any designated length from designated highways or establish a

system of truck routes upon which such vehicles and combinations are

permitted to travel and operate and excluding such vehicles and

combinations from all highways except those which constitute such truck

route system.

15. Establish maximum speed limits other than the fifty-five miles per

hour statutory maximum speed limit, or establish minimum speed limits.

16. Regulate the crossing of any roadway by pedestrians.

17. Designate preferential use lanes for specified types or classes of

vehicles.

* 18. Designate a road or portion thereof as a minimum maintenance

road.

* NB Repealed December 8, 2031

(b) Such signs shall be required for orders, ordinances, rules, or

regulations made by the New York state thruway authority, the office of

parks and recreation, a county park commission, a parkway authority, a

bridge authority, a bridge and tunnel authority or the legislative body

of a city having a population in excess of one million or any board,

body or official to whom the power of such local authority has been

designated only in so far as such local authorities in their discretion

may deem practicable.