Title VAT, Vehicle & Traffic

* § 119-a. Ignition interlock device. Any blood alcohol concentration equivalence measuring device which connects to a motor vehicle ignition system and prevents a motor vehicle from being started without first determining through a deep lung breath sample that the operator's eq…

§ 119-b. Inflatable restraint system. 1. An inflatable restraint system means an air bag, as defined in subparagraph (b) of S 4.1.5.1 of standard 208 of part 571 of title 49 of the code of federal regulations, that is designed and installed to be activated in a crash. 2. Readine…

§ 1192. Operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol\nor drugs. 1. Driving while ability impaired. No person shall operate a\nmotor vehicle while the person's ability to operate such motor vehicle\nis impaired by the consumption of alcohol.\n 2. Driving while i…

§ 1192-a. Operating a motor vehicle after having consumed alcohol;\nunder the age of twenty-one; per se. No person under the age of\ntwenty-one shall operate a motor vehicle after having consumed alcohol\nas defined in this section. For purposes of this section, a person under\n…

§ 1193. Sanctions. 1. Criminal penalties. (a) Driving while ability\nimpaired. A violation of subdivision one of section eleven hundred\nninety-two of this article shall be a traffic infraction and shall be\npunishable by a fine of not less than three hundred dollars nor more\nt…

§ 1194. Arrest and testing. 1. Arrest and field testing. (a) Arrest.\nNotwithstanding the provisions of section 140.10 of the criminal\nprocedure law, a police officer may, without a warrant, arrest a person,\nin case of a violation of subdivision one of section eleven hundred\n…

§ 1194-a. Driving after having consumed alcohol; under twenty-one;\nprocedure. 1. Chemical test report and hearing. (a) Whenever a chemical\ntest of the breath, blood, urine or saliva of an operator who is under\nthe age of twenty-one indicates that such person has operated a mo…

§ 1195. Chemical test evidence. 1. Admissibility. Upon the trial of any action or proceeding arising out of actions alleged to have been committed by any person arrested for a violation of any subdivision of section eleven hundred ninety-two of this article, the court shall admi…

§ 1196. Alcohol and drug rehabilitation program. 1. Program\nestablishment. There is hereby established an alcohol and drug\nrehabilitation program within the department of motor vehicles. The\ncommissioner shall establish, by regulation, the instructional and\nrehabilitative as…

§ 1197. Special traffic options program for driving while intoxicated. "The program", as used in this section, shall mean the special traffic options program for driving while intoxicated, a program established pursuant to this section, and approved by the commissioner of motor …

* § 1198. Installation and operation of ignition interlock devices. 1. Applicability. The provisions of this section shall apply throughout the state to each person required or otherwise ordered by a court as a condition of probation or conditional discharge to install and opera…

§ 1198-a. Special procedures and disposition involving alcohol and substance abuse assessment and treatment. 1. Definitions. For purposes of this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (a) "Alcohol and substance abuse professional" shall mean persons cre…

§ 1199. Driver responsibility assessment. 1. In addition to any fines, fees, penalties and surcharges authorized by law, any person convicted of a violation of any subdivision of section eleven hundred ninety-two of this article, or any person found to have refused a chemical te…

§ 120. Intersection. (a) The area embraced within the prolongation or connection of the lateral curb lines, or, if none, then the lateral boundary lines of the roadways of two highways which join one another at, or approximately at, right angles, or the area within which vehicle…

§ 1200. Basic rules. (a) When stopping is prohibited by this article, or by local law, ordinance, order, rule or regulation, no person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with t…

§ 1201. Stopping, standing, or parking outside of business or residence districts. (a) Upon any highway outside of a business or residence district no person shall stop, park, or leave standing any vehicle, whether attended or unattended, upon the paved or main-traveled part of …

§ 1202. Stopping, standing or parking prohibited in specified places. (a) Except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic, or when in compliance with law or the directions of a police officer or official traffic-control device, no person shall: 1. Stop, stand or park …

§ 1203. Additional parking regulations. (a) Except where angle parking is authorized, every vehicle stopped, standing, or parked wholly upon a two-way roadway shall be so stopped, standing, or parked with the right-hand wheels of such vehicle parallel to and within twelve inches…

§ 1203-a. Parking permits for handicapped persons. 1. The commissioner shall distribute special vehicle identification parking permits to the governing bodies of all cities, towns and villages in the state. Notwithstanding any local law or ordinance to the contrary, such permits…

§ 1203-b. Parking spaces; handicapped. 1. Parking spaces for the handicapped as provided for in sections one thousand two hundred three-a and one thousand two hundred three-c of this chapter shall also be extended to a motor vehicle registered in accordance with section four hun…

§ 1203-c. Off street parking spaces for the handicapped. 1. Any person, firm or corporation owning a shopping center or facility with at least five separate retail stores and at least twenty off street parking spaces which are provided for use by the shopping public must designa…

§ 1203-d. Out-of-state vehicles bearing special identification. Motor vehicles displaying a special license plate or parking permit issued by any other state, district, territory or other governmental entity subject to the laws of the United States, or a foreign country for the …

§ 1203-e. Dumping or plowing snow onto parking places for handicapped\nprohibited. 1. Except as otherwise provided in subdivision two of this\nsection, any person who knowingly dumps or shovels snow onto a parking\nplace for handicapped persons rendering such place unusable for …

§ 1203-f. Handicapped parking enforcement. 1. A county, city, town or village may, by adoption of a local law or ordinance, establish a handicapped parking violation unit to assist in the enforcement of handicapped parking laws or ordinances. Persons appointed to such unit shall…

§ 1203-g. Establishment of the handicapped parking education program. 1. Every county and the city of New York shall establish a separate handicapped parking education program. Each program shall be organized by a coordinator for handicapped parking education and advocacy, who s…

§ 1203-h. Metered parking waiver for certain disabilities. 1. The commissioner shall distribute metered parking waiver permits to the governing bodies of all cities, villages and towns; provided, however, that the commissioner shall not distribute such permits to cities having a…

§ 1204. Officers authorized to remove illegally stopped vehicles. (a) Whenever any police officer, or in a city having a population in excess of one million any person designated by the commissioner of traffic of such city or on highways under the jurisdiction of the New York st…

§ 121. Laned roadway. A roadway which is divided into two or more clearly marked lanes for vehicular traffic.

§ 121-a. Limited use automobile. A limited use vehicle which, except for the provisions of article forty-eight-A and section four hundred-a of this chapter, would be subject to registration pursuant to subdivision six of section four hundred one of this chapter.

§ 121-b. Limited use motorcycle. A limited use vehicle having only two\nor three wheels, with a seat or saddle for the operator. A limited use\nmotorcycle having a maximum performance speed, of more than thirty miles\nper hour but not more than forty miles per hour shall be a cl…

§ 121-c. Limited use vehicle. A motor vehicle, other than one registered or capable of being registered pursuant to sections four hundred one or four hundred ten of this chapter, which has a maximum performance speed of not more than forty miles per hour, as defined in section o…

§ 121-d. Leased vehicle. A vehicle owned by a person engaged in the business of renting or leasing vehicles which is rented or leased without a driver to a person other than the owner and is registered either in the name of the lessee or renter, or in the name of the owner, in a…

§ 121-e. Livery. Every motor vehicle, other than a taxicab or a bus,\nused in the business of transporting passengers for compensation.\nHowever, it shall not include vehicles which are rented or leased\nwithout a driver.\n

§ 121-f. Low speed vehicle. A limited use automobile which has a maximum performance speed of greater than twenty miles an hour, but not greater than twenty-five miles an hour or a truck which has a maximum performance speed of greater than twenty miles an hour, but not greater …

§ 1210. Unattended motor vehicle. (a) No person driving or in charge of a motor vehicle shall permit it to stand unattended without first stopping the engine, locking the ignition, removing the key from the vehicle, and effectively setting the brake thereon and, when standing up…

§ 1211. Limitations on backing. (a) The driver of a vehicle shall not back the same unless such movement can be made with safety and without interfering with other traffic. (b) The driver of a vehicle shall not back the same upon any shoulder or roadway of any controlled-access …

§ 1212. Reckless driving. (a) Reckless driving shall mean driving or\nusing any motor vehicle, motorcycle or any other vehicle propelled by\nany power other than muscular power or any appliance or accessory\nthereof in a manner which unreasonably interferes with the free and\npr…

§ 1213. Obstruction to driver's view or driving mechanism. (a) No person shall drive a motor vehicle when it is so loaded, or when there are in the front seat such number of persons as to obstruct the view of the driver to the front or sides of the vehicle or as to interfere wit…

§ 1214. Opening and closing vehicle doors. No person shall open the door of a motor vehicle on the side available to moving traffic unless and until it is reasonably safe to do so, and can be done without interfering with the movement of other traffic, nor shall any person leave…

§ 1215. Driving on mountain highways. The driver of a motor vehicle traveling through defiles or canyons or on mountain highways shall hold such motor vehicle under control and as near the right-hand edge of the highway as reasonably possible and, upon approaching any curve wher…

§ 1216. Coasting prohibited. The driver of any motor vehicle when traveling upon a down grade shall not coast with the gears of such vehicle in neutral, nor with the clutch disengaged.

§ 1217. Following emergency fire vehicles prohibited. The driver of any vehicle other than one on official business shall not follow any authorized emergency fire vehicle in the same lane or an adjacent lane to the one being used by such fire vehicle at a distance closer than tw…

§ 1218. Crossing fire hose. No vehicle shall be driven over any unprotected hose of a fire department when laid down on any street or private driveway, to be used at any fire or alarm of fire, without the consent of the fire department official in command.

§ 1219. Putting glass or other injurious substances on highway prohibited. (a) No person shall throw or deposit upon any highway any glass bottle, glass, nails, tacks, wire, cans, snow or any other substance likely to injure any person, animal, or vehicle upon such highway. (b) …

§ 122. Local authorities. Every county, municipal or other local board, body or officer, county park commission, parkway authority, bridge authority, bridge and tunnel authority, the office of parks and recreation, the New York state thruway authority or similar body or person h…

§ 122-a. Maximum gross weight. The weight of the vehicle unladen plus the weight of the maximum load to be carried by such vehicle during the registration period or the maximum gross weight for which the vehicle is registered, whichever is greater.

§ 122-b. Maximum performance speed. For the purposes of article forty-eight-A of this chapter, maximum performance speed shall be the greatest speed which can be attained and maintained by a limited use vehicle under conditions prescribed by the commissioner at the time of its m…

§ 122-c. Mobile home or manufactured home. A structure, transportable in one or more sections, which in the traveling mode, is eight body feet or more in width or forty body feet or more in length, or when erected on site, is three hundred twenty or more square feet, and which i…

§ 1220. Throwing refuse on highways and adjacent lands prohibited. (a) No person shall throw, dump, deposit or place, or cause to be thrown, dumped, deposited or placed upon any highway, or within the limits of the right of way of such highway, or upon private lands adjacent the…

§ 1220-a. Liability for violation of a local law prohibiting unlawful\ndumping in a city having a population of one million or more. 1. In a\ncity having a population of one million or more which has adopted a\nlocal law prohibiting unlawful dumping by any person, his or her age…