[Amended 7-31-1996 by L.L. No. 14-1996]
Pursuant to the written request of the owner
or other person in general charge of the operation and control of
such area or Fire Chief of the Fire Department or Police Commissioner
of the Police Department having jurisdiction over such area, the Mayor
is hereby authorized to and may regulate traffic and parking in the
private streets, roadways, driveways and parking areas of hospitals,
shopping centers, office buildings and office building complexes,
places of public assembly, facilities owned or leased by a not-for-profit
corporation, private apartment house complex, fire station or private
condominium complex in the following manner and to the following extent,
provided that any such regulation shall no longer be effective in
the event that it is disapproved by resolution of the Board of Trustees.
A. Order stop signs, flashing signals or yield signs
erected at specified entrance or exit locations to any such area or
designate any intersection in such area as a stop intersection or
as a yield intersection and order like signs or signals at one or
more entrances to such intersection.
B. Regulate traffic in any such area, including regulation
by means of traffic control signals.
C. Establish maximum speed limits in any such area at
not less than 15 miles per hour.
D. Prohibit or regulate the turning of vehicles or specified
types of vehicles at intersections or other designated locations of
any such area.
E. Regulate the crossing of any roadway in any such area
by pedestrians.
F. Designate any separate roadway in any such area for
one-way traffic.
G. Prohibit, regulate, restrict or limit the stopping,
standing or parking of vehicles in specified areas of any such area.
H. Designate safety zones in any such areas.
I. Provide for the removal and storage of vehicles parked
or abandoned in any such area during snowstorms, floods, fires or
other public emergencies or found unattended in any such area where
they constitute an obstruction to traffic or where stopping, standing
or parking is prohibited, and for the payment of reasonable charges
for such removal and storage by the owner or operator of any such
vehicles.
J. Adopt such additional reasonable rules and regulations
with respect to traffic and parking in any such area as local conditions
may require for the safety and convenience of the public or of the
users of any such area.
[Amended 1-19-2005 by L.L. No. 1-2005]
Any person who violates any provision of a regulation
adopted pursuant to this article shall be guilty of a violation and
subject to a fine not to exceed $50 for each such violation.