§ 1642. Additional traffic regulations in cities having a population\nin excess of one million. (a) In addition to the other powers granted by\nthis article, the legislative body of any city having a population in\nexcess of one million, may by local law, ordinance, order, rule,\nregulation or health code provision prohibit, restrict or regulate\ntraffic on or pedestrian use of any highway (which term, for the\npurposes of this section, shall include any private road open to public\nmotor vehicle traffic) in such city. The provisions of section sixteen\nhundred shall be applicable to such local laws, ordinances, orders,\nrules, regulations, and health code provisions, provided, however, that\nsuch local laws, ordinances, orders, rules, regulations and health code\nprovisions shall supersede the provisions of this chapter where\ninconsistent or in conflict with respect to the following enumerated\nsubjects:\n 1. Weights and dimensions of vehicles.\n 2. Parking, standing, stopping and backing of vehicles.\n 3. The prohibition or regulation of the use of any highway by\nparticular vehicles or classes or types thereof or devices moved by\nhuman power.\n 4. Charging of tolls, taxes, fees, licenses or permits for the use of\nthe highway or any of its parts, where the imposition thereof is\nauthorized by law.\n 5. Establishment of minimum speed limits at which vehicles may proceed\non or along such highways.\n 6. Operation of authorized emergency vehicles.\n 7. Control of persons and equipment engaged in work on the highway.\n 8. Hitchhiking and commercial activities.\n 9. Use of medial strips and dividing malls or sections and use of\nshoulders of the highway.\n 10. Right of way of vehicles and pedestrians.\n 11. Use of the highway by pedestrians, equestrians and animals.\n 12. Turning of vehicles.\n 13. Regulation of the direction of the movement of traffic and the use\nof traffic lanes.\n 14. Regulation of the use of horns, lights and other required\nequipment of vehicles.\n 15. Towing and pushing of vehicles, including, but not limited to, the\nestablishment of minimum insurance levels for and the licensing and\nregulation of persons engaged in the business of towing, and the fixing\nof maximum charges to be made by such persons for the towing and storage\nof disabled vehicles.\n 16. Objects projecting or hanging outside or on the top of vehicles.\n 17. Entering and driving off the highway, its roadways, medial strips,\ndividing malls and shoulders.\n 18. The prohibition or regulation of speed contests, races,\nexhibitions of speed, processions or parades.\n 19. Littering the highway.\n 20. Vehicles illegally parked, stopped or standing, or vehicles\ninvolved in accidents, including, but not limited to, the removal and\nstorage of such vehicles, the fixing of reasonable charges, to be paid\nby the owner, operator or person entitled to possession, for such\nremoval and storage and for other expenses incurred in connection\ntherewith, the creation of liens on such vehicles for such charges and\nexpenses, the enforcement of such liens, the determination of ownership\nor right to possession of such vehicles, the time before such vehicles\nare deemed abandoned vehicles pursuant to section twelve hundred\ntwenty-four of this chapter, and the disposition of the proceeds of\nsales held pursuant to said section.\n 21. Transportation of combustibles, chemicals, explosives,\ninflammables, or other dangerous substances, articles, compounds or\nmixtures, including, but not limited to, dangerous articles, as defined\nin section three hundred eighty of this chapter.\n 22. Traffic signal legend applicable to pedestrians and use of arrows.\n 23. Prohibit, restrict or regulate the operation of limited use\nvehicles on any street or highway.\n 24. Prohibition of the operation of motorcycles during the period\nbetween nine post meridian through eight ante meridian along designated\nstreets or parts of streets on which the pro
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