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.
(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.
Last modified: February 3, 2019