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NY Veh & Traf L § 1284 (2021)
2021 New York Laws VAT - Vehicle and Traffic Title 7 - Rules of the Road Article 34-D - Operation of Electric Scooters 1284 - Riding on Roadways, Shoulders, and Lanes Reserved for Non-Motorized Vehicles and Devices.

§  1284.  Riding  on  roadways,  shoulders,  and  lanes  reserved  for   non-motorized vehicles and devices. 1. Upon all roadways,  any  electric   scooter  shall  be  operated either on a usable bicycle or in-line skate   lane or, if a  usable  bicycle  or  in-line  skate  lane  has  not  been   provided,  near  the  right-hand  curb  or edge of the roadway or upon a   usable right-hand  shoulder  in  such  a  manner  as  to  prevent  undue   interference  with  the flow of traffic except when preparing for a left   turn or when reasonably necessary to avoid conditions that would make it   unsafe to continue along near the right-hand curb or edge. Conditions to   be taken into consideration include, but are not limited  to,  fixed  or   moving   objects,   vehicles,  bicycles,  in-line  skates,  pedestrians,   animals, surface hazards or  traffic  lanes  too  narrow  for  a  person   operating   an   electric   scooter  and  a  vehicle  to  travel  safely   side-by-side within the lane.2. Persons operating electric  scooters  upon  a  roadway  shall  ride   single  file.  Persons  operating  electric  scooters  upon  a shoulder,   bicycle or in-line skate lane, or bicycle or in-line skate path intended   for the use of bicycles, in-line skates or electric  scooters  may  ride   two  or  more abreast if sufficient space is available, except that when   passing a vehicle, bicycle, electric personal assistive mobility device,   person on in-line skates or pedestrian standing or proceeding along such   shoulder, lane  or  path,  persons  operating  electric  scooters  shall   operate such scooters single file.3.  Any person operating an electric scooter who is entering a roadway   from a private road, driveway, alley or over a curb shall come to a full   stop before entering the roadway.
NY Veh & Traf L § 1285 (2021)
2021 New York Laws VAT - Vehicle and Traffic Title 7 - Rules of the Road Article 34-D - Operation of Electric Scooters 1285 - Lamps and Other Equipment.

§  1285.  Lamps and other equipment. 1. Every electric scooter when in   use during the period from one-half hour after sunset to  one-half  hour   before  sunrise  shall  be equipped with a lamp on the front which shall   emit a white light visible during hours of darkness from a  distance  of   at  least five hundred feet to the front and with a red light visible to   the rear for three hundred feet.  At  least  one  such  light  shall  be   visible for two hundred feet from each side.2.  No person shall operate an electric scooter unless such scooter is   equipped with a bell or other device capable of giving a signal  audible   for  a  distance  of  at least one hundred feet, except that an electric   scooter shall not be equipped with nor shall  any  person  use  upon  an   electric scooter any siren or whistle.3.  Every electric scooter shall be equipped with a brake that enables   the operator to bring the electric scooter to a controlled stop.
NY Veh & Traf L § 1286 (2021)
2021 New York Laws VAT - Vehicle and Traffic Title 7 - Rules of the Road Article 34-D - Operation of Electric Scooters 1286 - Operators to Wear Protective Headgear.

§ 1286. Operators to wear protective headgear. 1. No person sixteen or   seventeen  years  of age shall ride upon, propel or otherwise operate an   electric  scooter  unless  such  person  is  wearing  a  helmet  meeting   standards  established by the commissioner pursuant to the provisions of   subdivision two-a of section twelve hundred thirty-eight of this  title.   As  used  in  this subdivision, wearing a helmet means having a properly   fitting helmet fixed securely on the head of such wearer with the helmet   straps securely fastened.2. Any person who violates the provisions of subdivision one  of  this   section shall pay a civil fine not to exceed fifty dollars.3.  The court shall waive any fine for which a person who violates the   provisions of subdivision one of this section would be  liable  if  such   person  supplies the court with proof that between the date of violation   and the appearance date for such  violation  such  person  purchased  or   rented a helmet, which meets the requirements of subdivision one of this   section,  or if the court finds that due to reasons of economic hardship   such person was unable to purchase a helmet  or  due  to  such  economic   hardship  such  person  was unable to obtain a helmet from the statewide   in-line skate and bicycle helmet distribution program, as established in   section two hundred six of the public health law or a local distribution   program. Such waiver of fine shall not apply to a second  or  subsequent   violation of subdivision one of this section.4.  The  failure  of  any person to comply with the provisions of this   section shall not constitute contributory negligence  or  assumption  of   risk,  and shall not in any way bar, preclude or foreclose an action for   personal injury or wrongful death by or on behalf of such person, nor in   any way diminish or reduce the damages recoverable in any such action.
NY Veh & Traf L § 1287 (2021)
2021 New York Laws VAT - Vehicle and Traffic Title 7 - Rules of the Road Article 34-D - Operation of Electric Scooters 1287 - Leaving the Scene of an Accident Involving an Electric Scooter Without Reporting in the Second Degree.

§ 1287. Leaving the scene of an incident involving an electric scooter   without reporting in the second degree. 1. Any person age eighteen years   or  older  operating an electric scooter who, knowing or having cause to   know, that physical injury, as defined in subdivision  nine  of  section   10.00  of  the  penal law, has been caused to another person, due to the   operation of such electric scooter by such person, shall, before leaving   the place where such physical injury occurred, stop, and provide his  or   her  name  and  residence,  including  street  and street number, to the   injured party, if practical, and also to a police  officer,  or  in  the   event  that  no  police  officer is in the vicinity of the place of said   injury,  then  such  person  shall  report  such  incident  as  soon  as   physically able to the nearest police station or judicial officer.2.  Leaving  the  scene  of  an incident involving an electric scooter   without reporting in the second degree is a violation.
NY Veh & Traf L § 1288 (2021)
2021 New York Laws VAT - Vehicle and Traffic Title 7 - Rules of the Road Article 34-D - Operation of Electric Scooters 1288 - Leaving the Scene of an Accident Involving an Electric Scooter Without Reporting in the First Degree.

§ 1288. Leaving the scene of an incident involving an electric scooter   without  reporting in the first degree. 1. Any person age eighteen years   or older operating an electric scooter who, knowing or having  cause  to   know,  that  serious  physical  injury, as defined in subdivision ten of   section 10.00 of the penal law, has been caused to another  person,  due   to  the operation of such electric scooter by such person, shall, before   leaving the place where such serious physical injury occurred, stop, and   provide his or her name  and  residence,  including  street  and  street   number,  to  the  injured  party,  if  practical,  and  also to a police   officer, or in the event that no police officer is in  the  vicinity  of   the place of said injury, then such person shall report said incident as   soon  as  physically  able  to  the  nearest  police station or judicial   officer.2. Leaving the scene of an  incident  involving  an  electric  scooter   without reporting in the first degree is a class B misdemeanor.
NY Veh & Traf L § 1600 (2021)
2021 New York Laws VAT - Vehicle and Traffic Title 8 - Respective Powers of State and Local Authorities Article 35 - Uniform Statewide Application 1600 - Provisions of Chapter Uniform Throughout State.

§ 1600. Provisions of chapter uniform throughout state. The provisions   of  this  chapter  shall be applicable and uniform throughout this state   and in all political subdivisions  and  municipalities  therein  and  no   local  authority shall enact or enforce any local law, ordinance, order,   rule or regulation in conflict  with  the  provisions  of  this  chapter   unless  expressly  authorized  herein. No local authority shall enact or   duplicate any provision of this  chapter  as  a  local  law,  ordinance,   order, rule or regulation, except that any local authority authorized to   supersede  any provision of this chapter may enact any such provision in   a modified or amended form.
NY Veh & Traf L § 1601 (2021)
2021 New York Laws VAT - Vehicle and Traffic Title 8 - Respective Powers of State and Local Authorities Article 35 - Uniform Statewide Application 1601 - Rights of Owners of Real Property.

§ 1601. Rights  of  owners  of  real property. Nothing in this chapter   shall be construed to prevent the owner of real  property  used  by  the   public  for  purposes of vehicular travel by permission of the owner and   not as matter of right from prohibiting  such  use,  or  from  requiring   conditions  additional  to  those  specified  in  this  chapter, or from   otherwise regulating such use as may seem best to such owner.
NY Veh & Traf L § 1602 (2021)
2021 New York Laws VAT - Vehicle and Traffic Title 8 - Respective Powers of State and Local Authorities Article 35 - Uniform Statewide Application 1602 - Emergency Rule.

§ 1602. Emergency  rule.  (a)  Whenever a police officer shall deem it advisable during a fire or at  the  time  of  any  accident  or  special emergency  and  only  for such period of time as is necessitated thereby for the public safety or convenience, temporarily to close any street or part  thereof  to  vehicular  traffic,  or  to  vehicles  of  a  certain description,  or  to divert the traffic thereof, or to divert or break a course of  pedestrian  traffic,  such  official  shall  have  power  and authority to do so.  (b)  In  the event of a fire or other emergency or to expedite traffic or to safeguard pedestrians or property: any  police  officer  or  other person  empowered  to  regulate  traffic at the scene may, to the extent authorized  by  local  law,  ordinance,  order,  rule,   regulation   or administrative  code provision adopted by local authorities with respect to  highways  within  their  corporate  boundaries,  direct  traffic  as conditions may require notwithstanding the provisions of this chapter or of  local  laws,  ordinances, orders, rules, regulations, administrative code or sanitary code provisions regulating traffic; and,  in  addition, outside of cities and villages any member of the state police may direct traffic as conditions may require notwithstanding the provisions of this chapter  or  of  local  laws,  ordinances,  orders, rules or regulations regulating traffic.  (c) Whenever the head of any police force or police department or  the chief  executive  officer  of  a  city,  town  or  village shall deem it advisable during a snow storm or in order to  remove  snow  or  to  plow streets,  provided  that  signs  or markings giving notice are posted as required by section sixteen hundred eighty-three of this  chapter,  such head  of  the  police  force or police department or the chief executive officer of a city, town or village may close any street or part  thereof to  vehicular  traffic  or  prohibit,  restrict  or  limit the stopping, standing or parking of vehicles.  (d) The superintendent of the New York state police or the head of any police force or police department may authorize the temporary closure of any street or part thereof to vehicular traffic, or  to  vehicles  of  a certain  description,  or to divert the traffic thereof, or to divert or break a course of pedestrian traffic in the following situations:   1. during the time of  any  speed  contest,  exhibition  of  speed  or similar  special  event  which  is being held pursuant to section eleven hundred eighty-two-a of this chapter;   2. during the time of the filming of any movie, commercial or  similar event  which  is  being  undertaken  pursuant  to section eleven hundred eighty-two-b of this chapter.
NY Veh & Traf L § 1604 (2021)
2021 New York Laws VAT - Vehicle and Traffic Title 8 - Respective Powers of State and Local Authorities Article 35 - Uniform Statewide Application 1604 - Local Ordinances Prohibited.

§ 1604. Local  ordinances  prohibited. Except as otherwise provided in   this chapter, local authorities shall have no power to pass, enforce  or   maintain any ordinance, rule or regulation requiring from any owner of a   motor  vehicle  or motorcycle, or from any operator or chauffeur to whom   this chapter is applicable, any tax, fee, license or permit for the  use   of  the  public  highways,  or  excluding  any  such  owner, operator or   chauffeur from the free use of  such  public  highways,  excepting  such   driveway,  speedway or road as has been or may be expressly set apart by   law for the exclusive use of horses and light carriages, or in any other   way restricting motor vehicles or motorcycles or their speed upon or use   of the public highways; or setting aside for any given time a  specified   public  highway  or  any part thereof constructed in whole or in part at   the  expense  of  the   state   for   exhibitions,   shows,   exercises,   entertainments  or  meetings;  and  no  ordinance,  rule  or  regulation   contrary to or in any wise inconsistent  with  the  provisions  of  this   chapter, now in force or hereafter enacted shall have any effect.Provided,  however,  that  the  power  given  to  local authorities to   license and regulate vehicles  offered  to  the  public  for  hire,  and   processions, assemblages or parades in the streets or public places, and   all  ordinances,  rules and regulations which may have been or which may   be enacted in pursuance of such powers shall remain in  full  force  and   effect.
NY Veh & Traf L § 1610 (2021)
2021 New York Laws VAT - Vehicle and Traffic Title 8 - Respective Powers of State and Local Authorities Article 36 - State Department of Transportation 1610 - General Powers and Duties.

§ 1610. General  powers  and duties.  The department of transportation   shall cooperate with the officials of cities  and  villages  toward  the   adoption  of  uniform  ordinances,  signs,  signals,  signal  lights and   markings in the cities and villages of the state.
NY Veh & Traf L § 1611 (2021)
2021 New York Laws VAT - Vehicle and Traffic Title 8 - Respective Powers of State and Local Authorities Article 36 - State Department of Transportation 1611 - Effect of Department Orders.

§ 1611. Effect  of department orders.  Orders issued by the department   of transportation pursuant to the provisions of this  chapter  shall  be   deemed  to  be  rules and regulations for the purpose of taking judicial   notice thereof.
NY Veh & Traf L § 1612 (2021)
2021 New York Laws VAT - Vehicle and Traffic Title 8 - Respective Powers of State and Local Authorities Article 36 - State Department of Transportation 1612 - Enforcement.

§ 1612. Enforcement.    The  supreme  court shall have jurisdiction to   enforce the provisions of this article or any orders  issued  thereunder   or to enjoin the enforcement thereof.
NY Veh & Traf L § 1613 (2021)
2021 New York Laws VAT - Vehicle and Traffic Title 8 - Respective Powers of State and Local Authorities Article 36 - State Department of Transportation 1613 - Review by Courts.

§ 1613. Review  by  courts.    Any  order  made  by  the department of   transportation pursuant to this chapter shall be subject  to  review  by   the supreme court in the manner provided in article seventy-eight of the   civil  practice  law  and  rules  or  by  any  other appropriate remedy.   Proceedings  to  review  shall  be  brought  in  Albany   county.   Such   proceedings shall be entitled to a preference.
NY Veh & Traf L § 1620 (2021)
2021 New York Laws VAT - Vehicle and Traffic Title 8 - Respective Powers of State and Local Authorities Article 37 - Regulation of Traffic by Department of Transportation and Other State Authorities 1620 - Speed Limits on State Highways, and on Indian Reservations.

§ 1620. Speed  limits  on  state highways, and on Indian reservations. (a) The department of transportation  with  respect  to  state  highways maintained  by the state outside of cities having a population in excess of one million, and highways on Indian reservations, may by order,  rule or  regulation  establish  higher or lower maximum speed limits at which vehicles may proceed on or along such highways than the fifty-five miles per hour statutory maximum speed limit.  No  such  maximum  speed  limit shall  be  established  at  less than twenty-five miles per hour, except that school speed limits may be established at  not  less  than  fifteen miles  per hour, for a distance not to exceed one thousand three hundred twenty feet, on a highway passing a school building, entrance or exit of a school abutting on the highway. Absence of signs installed pursuant to this section shall  be  presumptive  evidence  that  the  department  of transportation has not established a higher maximum speed limit than the fifty-five miles per hour statutory limit.  (b)  The  department  of transportation, whenever it determines on the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation that  slow  speeds  on any  part  of  a controlled-access state highway maintained by the state outside  of  cities  having  a  population  in  excess  of  one  million consistently  impede  the  normal  and  reasonable  flow of traffic, may establish minimum speed limits below which vehicles may not  proceed  on or along such highway,  (c)  The  department of transportation may determine the maximum speed which may  be  maintained  without  structural  damage  to  bridges  and elevated  structures  that are a part of any state highway maintained by the state, and, if such maximum speed is lower than  the  maximum  speed limit  otherwise  applicable, may by order, rule or regulation establish such lower maximum speed limit at which vehicles may proceed on any such bridge or structure.
NY Veh & Traf L § 1622 (2021)
2021 New York Laws VAT - Vehicle and Traffic Title 8 - Respective Powers of State and Local Authorities Article 37 - Regulation of Traffic by Department of Transportation and Other State Authorities 1622 - Speed Limits on County Roads and Town Highways.

§ 1622. Speed limits on county roads and town highways. The department   of  transportation  upon  the  request  of  the county superintendent of   highways of a county and the town board of the town  or  towns  affected   with  respect  to  county  roads and town highways in such town or towns   outside of cities or villages, may by order, rule or regulation:1. Establish maximum speed limits at which vehicles may proceed on  or   along  such  highways higher or lower than the fifty-five miles per hour   statutory maximum speed limit. No such limit  shall  be  established  at   less  than  twenty-five  miles per hour, except that school speed limits   may be established at not less  than  fifteen  miles  per  hour,  for  a   distance  not  to  exceed  one  thousand three hundred twenty feet, on a   highway passing a school building, entrance or exit of a school abutting   on the highway.2. Establish maximum speed limits at which vehicles may proceed on  or   along all such highways lying within an area or areas as designated by a   description  of  the  boundaries  of such area or areas submitted by the   county superintendent of highways of a county and the town board of  the   town  or  towns  affected lower than fifty-five miles per hour statutory   maximum speed limit. No such limit shall be  established  at  less  than   thirty miles per hour.
NY Veh & Traf L § 1623 (2021)
2021 New York Laws VAT - Vehicle and Traffic Title 8 - Respective Powers of State and Local Authorities Article 37 - Regulation of Traffic by Department of Transportation and Other State Authorities 1623 - Regulation of Traffic on the Grounds of State Departments, Institutions of the State University, State Hospitals and Other State Institutions.

§ 1623. Regulation  of  traffic  on  the grounds of state departments,   institutions of the state university, state hospitals  and  other  state   institutions.  (a)  Upon  the  application  of  the  head  of  any state   department, upon the application of the board of trustees of  the  state   university of New York and upon the application of the board of visitors   or other similar board or body of a state hospital or state institution,   the  department  of  transportation  may  by  order,  rule or regulation   prohibit, restrict or regulate traffic  on  or  pedestrian  use  of  any   highway  on  the  grounds of the department, institution or institutions   over which the department head, board or body making  such  applications   has jurisdiction. (b) This section shall not apply to any of the grounds   referred to in section fifty-seven hundred eight of the education law.
NY Veh & Traf L § 1624 (2021)
2021 New York Laws VAT - Vehicle and Traffic Title 8 - Respective Powers of State and Local Authorities Article 37 - Regulation of Traffic by Department of Transportation and Other State Authorities 1624 - Limitation on Scope of Local Speed Limits; Reports of Local Speeding Convictions to Department of Transportation.

§ 1624. Limitation  on  scope  of local speed limits; reports of local speeding convictions to department of transportation. (a) On  any  state highway  maintained  by  the  state within any city, village or suburban town  governed  pursuant  to  article  three-A  of  the  town  law,  the department  of  transportation  may  designate any such state highway or section of such highway on which any such city, village or suburban town shall not by local law, ordinance, order, rule or  regulation  establish any  maximum speed limits at which vehicles may proceed on or along such state highway.  Such designation shall be made by an order in writing of the department of transportation and served by  mail  on  the  mayor  or supervisor  or  a member of the governing board of such city, village or suburban town ten days  before  the  same  shall  take  effect.  At  the expiration  of  ten  days  after  service  of  such order upon any city, village or suburban town the  speed  of  any  vehicle  upon  such  state highway  or  section  of  such  highway shall not be subject to any such maximum speed limit established by such city, village or suburban town.  (b) The department of transportation may in its discretion at any time make a written order requiring any city, village  or  suburban  town  to report to the department of transportation the punishment inflicted upon conviction  of  exceeding  the  lawful maximum speed limit in such city, village or suburban town. Such order shall be in writing  and  shall  be served  in  like  manner as the order provided for in subdivision (a) of this section. Any city, village or suburban town upon which  such  order is  served  shall  thereafter, at the close of each month and before the fifth day of the following month, make a report  to  the  department  of transportation  showing  the  name and residence of each person fined or otherwise punished  during  the  month,  and  the  fines  or  punishment imposed.  Such report shall be duly verified by the officer or officers, or magistrate or magistrates  imposing  the  fines  or  punishment.  The department  of  transportation  may  at  any time suspend or rescind the order requiring such reports.   If any city, village  or  suburban  town fail  to make any such report as required by the order of the department of transportation within the time prescribed by law, the right or  power of  such  city,  village  or suburban town to impose any punishment upon conviction of exceeding the lawful maximum speed limit within such city, village or suburban town shall be suspended until the report is made  as required.