Section 5708. Powers to police grounds and regulate traffic thereon

1. For
  the  purpose  of  providing  for  the  safety  of its students, faculty,
  employees and visitors, Cornell  university  is  hereby  authorized  and
  empowered  through  its  board of trustees: a. To adopt, make applicable
  and enforce, upon the streets, roads and highways owned,  controlled  or
  maintained  by said university within the grounds of said university and
  constituting a part of the educational  and  research  plant  or  plants
  owned  or  under  the  supervision,  administration, and control of said
  university, such provisions of the vehicle and  traffic  law,  and  such
  rules  of  the state department of transportation as control or regulate
  vehicular or pedestrian traffic, and parking.
    b. To adopt and enforce such additional rules and regulations for  the
  control  of  the use of the streets and roads described in the foregoing
  subdivision as local authorities are  empowered  to  adopt  and  enforce
  pursuant to said vehicle and traffic law.
    c.  To  adopt  and enforce rules and regulations not inconsistent with
  law, controlling parking of vehicles and pedestrian traffic over,  along
  and  upon  the  lands and premises of said university or the streets and
  highways therein, and to control or prohibit thereon or therein vending,
  hawking, loitering and trespassing.
    d. To erect, operate and maintain at the entrance or entrances to  any
  such  grounds and at other appropriate points thereon or therein control
  lights, signs and signals.
    2. A violation of any section of the vehicle and traffic law or of any
  rule of the  state  department  of  transportation  made  applicable  as
  provided   in  paragraph  a  of  subdivision  one  hereof,  shall  be  a
  misdemeanor or traffic infraction as designated in such law or rules  as
  the  case  may be, and punishable as therein provided, and any violation
  of a rule or regulation adopted under paragraph  b  of  subdivision  one
  hereof  shall  be a traffic infraction and punishable as provided in the
  state vehicle and traffic law.
    3. A violation of any rules or regulations of the  university  adopted
  pursuant  to  paragraph  c  of  subdivision  one  of this section, shall
  constitute a misdemeanor punishable by fine not exceeding fifty  dollars
  or by imprisonment not exceeding six months, or both.
    4. Notice of any such laws or rules and regulations made applicable or
  adopted  as hereinbefore provided shall be given either personally or by
  reasonable notice conspicuously posted on the said lands  and  premises,
  or  by  traffic sign, signal or device, and by filing a copy of all such
  laws, rules and regulations, and amendments thereof from time  to  time,
  in  the office of the clerk of the city, town, or village where they are
  to be enforced. Such laws, rules and regulations shall be enforced,  and
  violations  thereof shall be punishable in any court having jurisdiction
  in the territory in which such violations shall occur.