§ 1621. Other traffic regulations on state highways and on indian\nreservations. (a) The department of transportation with respect to state\nhighways maintained by the state, the intersection of any highway with a\nstate highway maintained by the state, and any highway intersecting or\nmeeting a state highway maintained by the state for a distance not\nexceeding one hundred feet from such state highway maintained by the\nstate, may by order, rule or regulation:\n 1. Designate through highways and order stop signs, flashing signals\nor yield signs erected at specified entrances thereto or designate any\nintersection as a stop intersection or a yield intersection and order\nlike signs or signals at one or more entrances to such intersection.\n 2. Prohibit, restrict or regulate the operation of vehicles on any\ncontrolled-access highway or the use of any controlled-access highway by\nany limited use vehicle, pedestrian, horseback rider or vehicle or\ndevice moved by human or animal power.\n 3. Prohibit or regulate the turning of vehicles or specified types of\nvehicles at intersections or other designated locations.\n 4. Authorize angle parking on any roadway.\n 5. Regulate the crossing of any roadway by pedestrians.\n 6. Upon a roadway which is divided into three lanes, allocate the\ncenter lane exclusively for traffic moving in a specified direction.\n 7. Order signs erected directing slow-moving traffic, trucks, buses or\nspecified types of vehicles to use a designated lane, or with signs,\nsignals or markings designate those lanes to be used by traffic moving\nin a particular direction regardless of the center of the roadway.\n 8. Designate any highway or any separate roadway thereof for one-way\ntraffic.\n 9. Exclude trucks, commercial vehicles, tractors, tractor-trailer\ncombinations, tractor-semitrailer combinations, or\ntractor-trailer-semitrailer combinations from highways specified by the\ncommissioner. Such exclusion shall not be construed to prevent the\ndelivery or pickup of merchandise or other property along the highways\nfrom which such vehicles and combinations are otherwise excluded.\n 10. Prohibit, restrict or limit the stopping, standing or parking of\nvehicles.\n 11. Determine those highways or portions of highways which shall be\nmarked to indicate where overtaking and passing or driving to the left\nof or crossing such markings would be especially hazardous and order\nappropriate signs or markings on the roadway to indicate the beginning\nand end of such zone.\n 12. Require the use of lower gears on hills.\n 13. Regulate traffic by means of traffic-control signals.\n 14. Designate safety zones.\n 16. Designate a portion of a slope as a path for the use of bicycles.\n 17. Order signs or markings to identify the portion of the highway to\nbe used for bicycle travel.\n 18. Prohibit, restrict or regulate the operation of limited use\nvehicles on any street or highway.\n 19. 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 20. Designate preferential use lanes for specified types or classes of\nvehicles.\n 21. Declare a snow emergency and designate any highway or portion\nthereof as a snow emergency route.\n 22. Exclude trucks, commercial vehicles, tractors, tractor-trailer\ncombinations, tractor-semitrailer combinations, or\ntractor-trailer-semitrailer combinations in excess of any designated\nweight, designated length, designated height, or eight feet in width,\nfrom highways or set limits on hours of operation of such vehicles on\nparticular state highways or segments of such highways. Such exclusion\nshall not be construed to prevent the delivery or pickup of merchandise\nor other property along the highways from which such vehicles o
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