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N.Y. VAT Law § 1670

This is the official text of N.Y. VAT Law § 1670, part of New York’s VAT Law — part of the compiled statutory law of New York, published by the state as "VAT Law." Browse the sections below, each linked to its official government source.

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Regulation of traffic within municipal facilities

Official statutory text

§ 1670. Regulation of traffic within municipal facilities. Any local\nauthority or school district, with respect to driveways or parking\nfields accessory to any school, playground, park, municipal building,\ninstallation or facility, and under the jurisdiction of such local\nauthority or school district for general regulatory or custodial\npurposes, may by ordinance, order, rule or regulation:\n 1. Prohibit, restrict or limit the stopping, standing or parking of\nvehicles.\n 2. Regulate the direction of traffic.\n 3. Establish lower maximum speed limits at which vehicles may proceed\nthan the fifty-five miles per hour statutory maximum speed limit.\n 4. Adopt such additional reasonable ordinances, orders, rules and\nregulations with respect to traffic as local conditions may require\nsubject to the limitations contained in the various laws of this state.\n 5. Provide for the removal and storage of vehicles when: (a) parked in\nthe parking fields or driveways during snowstorms, floods, fires or\nother public emergencies; or (b) found unattended in the parking fields\nor driveways where they constitute an obstruction to traffic; or (c)\nfound abandoned in the parking fields or driveways, and for the payment\nof reasonable charges for such removal and storage by the owner or\noperator of any such vehicle.\n 6. Make special provisions with relation to stopping, standing or\nparking of vehicles registered pursuant to section four hundred four-a\nof this chapter or those possessing a special vehicle identification\nparking permit issued in accordance with section one thousand two\nhundred three-a of this chapter.\n

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