New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 9 - EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT › Subtitle I - Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation › Chapter I - Parks › Subchapter I - Ninth Park Region › Part 415 - Long Island State Park, Recreation And Historic Preservation Commission › Section 415.5 - Authorized vehicles

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a) The
					 use of parkways is limited to motor vehicles registered as passenger vehicles
					 by the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles, excluding. however, such vehicles when
					 adapted to or used for the carrying of commercial goods or materials or any
					 vehicle which is of an overall height of more than 94 inches. Except as
					 otherwise provided in this section or under written permit issued by the
					 commissioner, the use of any other vehicle on a parkway is
					 prohibited.
(b) Pedestrians,
					 horses, bicycles, limited use vehicles, limited use motorcycles and other motor
					 vehicles having a maximum performance speed of less than 55 miles per hour are
					 prohibited from using any parkway.
(c) Taxis and limousines will be permitted to
					 operate over a parkway but in no case will cruising or soliciting of passengers
					 en route be permitted.
(d) Outing
					 buses will be permitted to operate by the shortest possible route from outside
					 a park to discharge or pick up their passengers from a picnic or bathing area
					 only if a permit to enter the park has been issued by the commissioner to the
					 organization sponsoring the outing, picnic, etc. Buses must proceed over the
					 route and to the parking field designated in the permit.
(e) Public omnibuses will be permitted to
					 operate only under special permit.
(f) Trucks or trailers will be permitted to
					 operate on the Montauk Loop, Bay, and Ocean Parkways, on the Meadowbrook
					 Parkway south of Merrick Road (State Route 27A) and on the Robert Moses
					 Causeway, Hecksher Spur, and Wantagh Parkway South of Sunrise Highway (State
					 Route 27), where it is necessary for them to do so to service and supply such
					 areas or contiguous areas. Any vehicle or equipment or combination thereof
					 exceeding 8 feet in width, 13 feet in height, 50 feet in length or having a
					 weight greater than 22,400 pounds on any one axle shall not be operated over
					 the aforesaid parkways, including bridges incidental thereto, except under
					 written permit issued by the commissioner.
(g) Nothing contained in this section shall
					 apply to the wagons, trucks and apparatus of a fire department, insurance
					 patrol, police department, or ambulance, or to emergency repair wagons, when
					 responding for emergency work in case of fire, accident, public disaster,
					 impending danger or emergency on the parkways or in the parks.
(h) Vehicles having any name, insignia or
					 sign painted or displayed thereon for business or advertising purposes are
					 prohibited on parkways except as provided herein. For purposes of
					 identification, name and address only of the owner of a vehicle, on the sides
					 thereof, in letters not more than two inches in height, shall not be construed
					 as being displayed for business or advertising purposes. Vehicles owned and
					 operated by governmental agencies, buses permitted to operate on the parkways,
					 and trucks permitted in accordance with subdivision (i) of this section, are
					 excepted from the provisions of this subdivision.
(i) Licensed ambulances for sick or injured
					 persons shall be permitted to operate over parkways when on emergency service,
					 but subject to all the provisions of this Chapter regulating traffic, including
					 limitations on the rate of speed.
(j) Towing and pushing. No person shall cause
					 or permit a vehicle to be towed or pushed by another vehicle on any parkway,
					 except that a disabled vehicle may be towed by a tow truck authorized by the
					 Department of Transportation in accordance with the provisions of 17 NYCRR Part
					 190.