(a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (c) of this
section, local laws, ordinances, orders, rules, regulations,
administrative code provisions and sanitary and health code provisions
existing on the effective date of this section, shall, to the extent
that they do not conflict with the provisions of this chapter, be given
the following effect:
1. Orders of the department of transportation prohibiting or
restricting stopping, standing or parking of vehicles and local laws,
ordinances, orders, rules and regulations adopted by local authorities
prohibiting or restricting stopping, standing or parking of vehicles
shall henceforth be construed to prohibit or restrict stopping, standing
or parking as defined in this chapter.
2. All other orders of the department of transportation affecting
traffic and all other local laws, ordinances, orders, rules,
regulations, administrative code provisions and sanitary and health code
provisions affecting traffic shall henceforth be construed as if they
had been adopted pursuant to this chapter.
(b) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (c) of this section,
the local laws, ordinances, orders, rules, regulations, administrative
code provisions and sanitary and health code provisions referred to in
this section shall be deemed severable so that they shall be null and
void only to the extent and only at the locations that they conflict
with provisions of this chapter.
(c) Any local law, ordinance, order, rule, regulation, administrative
code provision or sanitary or health code provision which was in
existence on the effective date of this section, and which conflicts
with the provisions of this chapter, shall nevertheless continue in
effect and be construed as if adopted pursuant to this chapter, in any
case where the same would validly supersede the provisions of this
chapter if it were adopted after the effective date of this section,
pursuant to any provision of sections sixteen hundred thirty, sixteen
hundred thirty-one or sixteen hundred forty-two.