Section 1660-A. Traffic regulations at parking areas and driveways of hospitals, shopping centers, office buildings and office building complexes, places of public assembly, private apartment complexes, fire stations, private condominium complexes, mobile home parks, manufactured home parks, industrial parks and industrial complexes  


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  • The town board of
      any town, with respect to the parking areas and driveways of a hospital,
      office building or office building complex or place of public  assembly,
      or  parking area of a shopping center 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, or the parking areas,
      private  streets,  roadways  or  driveways  of  an  industrial  park  or
      industrial  complex,  and  pursuant to the written request of either the
      owner or the person in general charge of the operation  and  control  of
      such  area, the fire chief of the 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
      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
      sixty-two-a 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.