§ 1640. Traffic regulations in all cities and villages. (a) The\nlegislative body of any city or village, with respect to highways (which\nterm for the purposes of this section shall include private roads open\nto public motor vehicle traffic) in such city or village; subject to the\nlimitations imposed by section sixteen hundred eighty-four may by local\nlaw, ordinance, 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 or regulate the turning of vehicles or specified types of\nvehicles at intersections or other designated locations.\n 3. Regulate the crossing of any roadway by pedestrians.\n 4. Designate any highway or any separate roadway thereof for one-way\ntraffic.\n 5. Exclude trucks, commercial vehicles, tractors, tractor-trailer\ncombinations, tractor-semitrailer combinations, or\ntractor-trailer-semitrailer combinations from highways specified by such\nlegislative body. 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 6. Prohibit, restrict or limit the stopping, standing or parking of\nvehicles; provided, however, that a vehicle may not be found to be in\nviolation of a parking regulation if it is parked at a broken parking\nmeter at a time when metered parking is authorized.\n 7. 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 in accordance\nwith the standards, minimum warrants and sign or marking specifications\nestablished by the department of transportation.\n 8. Designate safety zones.\n 9. Provide for the installation, operation, maintenance, policing, and\nsupervision of parking meters, establish parking time limits at such\nmeters, designate hours of operation of such meters, and, except as\nprovided in section twelve hundred three-h of this chapter, fix and\nrequire the payment of fees applicable to parking where such meters are\nin operation. Such fees shall be paid to such city or village and\ncredited to its general fund, unless a different disposition prescribed\nby local law or ordinance enacted prior to or after the effective date\nof this section.\n 10. Establish a system of truck routes upon which all trucks,\ntractors, and tractor-trailer combinations having a total gross weight\nin excess of ten thousand pounds are permitted to travel and operate and\nexcluding such vehicles and combinations from all highways except those\nwhich constitute such truck route system. Such exclusion shall not be\nconstrued to prevent the delivery or pick up of merchandise or other\nproperty along the highways from which such vehicles and combinations\nare otherwise excluded. Any such system of truck routes shall provide\nsuitable connection with all state routes entering or leaving such city\nor village.\n 11. Regulate traffic by means of traffic-control signals.\n 12. License, regulate or prohibit speed contests, races, exhibitions\nof speed, processions, assemblages or parades. Whenever such a speed\ncontest, race, exhibition of speed, procession, assemblage or parade\nauthorized by a local authority will block the movement of traffic on a\nstate highway maintained by the state, or on a highway which connects\ntwo state highways maintained by the state to make a through route, for\na period in excess of ten minutes, such authority must, prior to such\nblocking, provide and designate with conspicuous signs a detour adequate\nto prevent unreasonable delay in the movement of traffic on said highway\nmaintained by the state.\n 13. Prohibit or regulate
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