New York Codes, Rules and Regulations
Title 8 - EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
Chapter V - State University of New York
Subchapter C - Administration and Operation of State-operated Institutions of State University of New York
Article 3 - Vehicular and Pedestrian Traffic and Parking
Part 583 - State University College At Oswego
Section 583.4 - Vehicular regulations and procedures

Universal Citation: 8 NY Comp Codes Rules and Regs § 583.4

Current through Register Vol. 47, No. 12, March 26, 2025

(a) Registration of vehicles.

(1) Every college community member shall register each vehicle which he or she may operate or park on the subject premises.
(i) Each vehicle to be operated or parked on said premises by a member of the college community shall display only current, legible college vehicle identification stickers, permanently affixed to the left side of the front and rear bumpers of such vehicle in a manner that will make them visible and legible from the front or rear of the vehicle (not upside down or on the underside of the bumper). Taping or clipping on such stickers is not considered as being permanently affixed. Motorcycles and motor scooters shall display one sticker affixed to the gas tank or rear fender.

(ii) Registration stickers shall be obtained by filing a vehicle registration application for each vehicle with payment of a registration fee, as approved by the chancellor or his designee, for each application, which fee shall be subject to the provisions of any collective bargaining agreement covering State employees. Such application may be filed and such fee may be paid at the office of the department of public safety, or such other place as may be designated, on or before the 10th day after college community membership status is acquired. Such registration(s) shall be effective for the academic year in which issued. Registration(s) shall be renewable annually during the month of August by reapplication and payment as provided herein.

(iii) All changes in the State license or registration of a motor vehicle registered as provided herein shall be reported immediately to the department of public safety, and registration(s) shall be revised upon payment of a fee as approved by the chancellor or his designee.

(2) Licensees and invitees (including all other persons whose presence on the subject premises is authorized). Every such person shall register each vehicle which he or she may park on the subject premises (excluding the visitors' parking spaces so posted and located adjacent to Culkin Hall and Sheldon Hall) by obtaining a visitors' parking permit from the department of public safety, located in Rich Hall. Such permit shall be obtained prior to parking on the subject premises, and shall be effective for a period designated in writing by the issuing officer on said permit.

(3) Medical permits.

College community members may apply for said special parking and registration permit(s) by submitting a written request for same to the department of public safety. Such a a request shall be accompanied by a statement, signed by the college physician, indicating the necessity for such permit.

(b) Vehicular parking.

(1) General prohibitions. No motor vehicle shall be parked in or on any of the following:
(i) campus roadways;

(ii) fire lanes, within 20 feet of any fire hydrant, any outside standpipe or any emergency zone so as to interfere with the use of the foregoing;

(iii) service areas or loading docks;

(iv) sidewalks and pedestrian walkways;

(v) any area in which the parking of any motor vehicle may impede ingress to or egress from any building by any pedestrian or authorized vehicle;

(vi) crosswalks;

(vii) any area in which parking may be restricted by the college as provided herein;

(viii) employee or commuter lots between 12 midnight and 6 a.m.; or

(ix) on subject premises outside the boundaries of parking lots.

(2) Parking in lots.
(i) Every vehicle parked in a parking lot shall be so parked as to be located within the confines of one parking space as may be designated by stripes painted on the lot surface.

(ii) Authorized parking.
(a) Vehicles for which an effective visitors' parking permit has been issued shall be parked only in an area posted for visitors' parking, or in a lot for which special authorization has been granted in writing on the visitors' parking permit.

(b) Any vehicle for which a campus community member has obtained registration shall be parked in the appropriate lot according to such member's status at the college and as may be specified on such member's registration sticker. Students may park in employee lots from 5 p.m. until 12 midnight weekdays and from 7 a.m. until 12 midnight on weekends.

(c) No college community member shall park in any area posted as reserved without first having been issued a reserved area parking sticker or other authorization from the department of public safety.

(d) The parking lots are designated as follows:

Lot. No. Location Designated for authorized parking by:
CR 1 West of Walker Health Center Campus resident/commuter students
E 2 Maintenance complex Employees
R 3 Rudolph Road Lakeside Campus resident students
ECR 5 South of Laker Hall Employees; resident/commuter students
E 6 Rear of Sheldon Hall Employees
ECR 7 South Athletic Field Employees; resident/commuter students
E 8 East side of Snygg Hall Employees
CR 9 South of Funnelle Hall Campus resident/commuter students
E 10 North side of Swetman Hall Employees
R 11 Western dorms Campus resident students
R 13 Western dorms Campus resident students
C 15 East of King Hall Commuter students
C 17 North side of Swetman Hall Commuter students
C 18 South of Hart Hall Employees
R 19 East of Moreland Hall Campus resident students
ECR 20 Walker Health Center Infirmary employees/student patients
E 22 East side of Penfield Library Employees
C 21 NW of Swetman Hall Commuter students

Excepting, however, that the college reserves the right to restrict or otherwise control the use of authorized spaces in all parking areas.

(iii) Parking fees as approved by the chancellor, or designee, shall be charged for motor vehicles parked within designated lots, consistent with applicable collective bargaining agreements and in accordance with guidelines established by the chancellor or designee. Such guidelines shall provide that the determination of the amount of the fee be substantially based on an analysis of the costs attributable to the operation and maintenance of the parking facilities owned and operated by the College at Oswego.

(3) The parking of any vehicle in any way other than as specified herein or the parking of any vehicle for which a college registration or visitors' parking permit has not been issued shall constitute a violation of this Part by the person in whose name said college registration or permit has been issued, except that vehicles owned by the State or New York or Auxiliary Services Association of this college need not be registered by the college and business invitees not directly affiliated with the college may park vehicles in the designated visitors' parking area of the Culkin Hall or Sheldon Hall lot without obtaining a visitors' permit, so long as such vehicle remains as parked only during its operator's transaction of official business on the campus.

(c) Vehicular operation.

No vehicle shall be operated:

(1) at a speed in excess of 20 miles per hour, or where otherwise posted at a speed in excess of such posted speed limit; and/or

(2) in a reckless or careless manner or at a speed greater than is reasonable and prudent under the conditions and having regard to the actual and potential hazards then existing; and/or

(3) with disregard to any traffic sign, signal, and/or pavement markings; and/or

(4) on any sidewalk, pedestrian walkway or lawn.

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