Pursuant to the provisions of Subdivision (a) of § 1603 of the Vehicle and Traffic Law, power is hereby delegated to the Commissioner of Police to exercise, by official order, rule or regulation, the following powers granted to the legislative body of this City in Article 39 of the Vehicle and Traffic Law:
A. 
Designate through highways and order stop signs, flashing signals or yield signs erected at specific entrances thereto, or designate any intersection as a stop intersection or a yield intersection and order like signs or signals at one or more entrances to such intersection.
B. 
Prohibit or regulate the turning of vehicles or specified types of vehicles at intersections or other designated locations.
C. 
Regulate the crossing of any roadway by pedestrians.
D. 
Determine those highways or portions of highways which shall be marked to indicate where overtaking and passing or driving to the left of the roadway would be especially hazardous in accordance with the standards, minimum warrants and sign or marking specifications established by the Department of Transportation.
[Amended 4-20-2004 by L.L. No. 3-2004]
E. 
Designate safety zones.
F. 
Establish a system of truck routes upon which all trucks, tractors and tractor-trailer combinations having a total gross weight in excess of 5,000 pounds are permitted to travel and operate, and exclude such vehicles and combinations from all highways except those which constitute such truck route system. Such exclusion shall not be construed to prevent the delivery or pickup of merchandise or other property along the highways from which such vehicles and combinations are otherwise excluded. Any such system of truck routes shall provide suitable connection with all state routes entering or leaving such City.
[Amended 11-18-1969 by L.L. No. 10-1969]
G. 
Regulate traffic by means of traffic control signals.
H. 
Prohibit or regulate the operation and the stopping, standing or parking of vehicles in or upon all streets, City-owned property, cemeteries and public parks.
[Amended 11-18-1969 by L.L. No. 10-1969]
I. 
Authorize angle parking on any roadway.
J. 
Order signs erected directing slow-moving traffic, trucks, buses or specified types of vehicles to use a designated lane, or with signs, signals or markings designate those lanes to be used by traffic moving in a particular direction regardless of the center of the roadway.
K. 
Regulate speed within the corporate limits of the City within the maximum limits set by Article II.
[Added 11-18-1969 by L.L. No. 10-1969]
Pursuant to the provisions of Subdivision (a) of § 1603 of the Vehicle and Traffic Law, power is hereby delegated to the Mayor to exercise, by official order, rule or regulation, the following power granted to the legislative body of this City in Article 39 of the Vehicle and Traffic Law:
A. 
License, regulate or prohibit processions, assemblages or parades. Whenever such a procession, assemblage or parade authorized by a local authority will block the movement of traffic on a state highway maintained by the state, or on a highway which connects two state highways maintained by the state to make a through route, for a period in excess of 10 minutes, such authority must, prior to such blocking, provide and designate with conspicuous signs a detour adequate to prevent unreasonable delay in the movement of traffic on said highway maintained by the state.