Title VAT, Vehicle & Traffic

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

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

§ 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\nany action or proceeding arising out of actions alleged to have been\ncommitted by any person arrested for a violation of any subdivision of\nsection eleven hundred ninety-two of this article, the court shall a…

§ 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.\n"The program", as used in this section, shall mean the special traffic\noptions program for driving while intoxicated, a program established\npursuant to this section, and approved by the commissioner of mot…

* § 1198. Installation and operation of ignition interlock devices.\n1. Applicability. The provisions of this section shall apply throughout\nthe state to each person required or otherwise ordered by a court as a\ncondition of probation or conditional discharge to install and op…

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

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

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

§ 1200. Basic rules. (a) When stopping is prohibited by this article,\nor by local law, ordinance, order, rule or regulation, no person shall\nstop, stand or park a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except when\nnecessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance wit…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

§ 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\nor village may, by adoption of a local law or ordinance, establish a\nhandicapped parking violation unit to assist in the enforcement of\nhandicapped parking laws or ordinances. Persons appointed to such unit\ns…

§ 1203-g. Establishment of the handicapped parking education program.\n1. Every county and the city of New York shall establish a separate\nhandicapped parking education program. Each program shall be organized\nby a coordinator for handicapped parking education and advocacy, wh…

§ 1203-h. Metered parking waiver for certain disabilities. 1. The\ncommissioner shall distribute metered parking waiver permits to the\ngoverning bodies of all cities, villages and towns; provided, however,\nthat the commissioner shall not distribute such permits to cities havin…

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

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

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

§ 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\nregistered or capable of being registered pursuant to sections four\nhundred one or four hundred ten of this chapter, which has a maximum\nperformance speed of not more than forty miles per hour, as defined in\nsecti…

§ 121-d. Leased vehicle. A vehicle owned by a person engaged in the\nbusiness of renting or leasing vehicles which is rented or leased\nwithout a driver to a person other than the owner and is registered\neither in the name of the lessee or renter, or in the name of the owner,\n…

§ 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\nmaximum performance speed of greater than twenty miles an hour, but not\ngreater than twenty-five miles an hour or a truck which has a maximum\nperformance speed of greater than twenty miles an hour, but not great…

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

§ 1211. Limitations on backing. (a) The driver of a vehicle shall not\nback the same unless such movement can be made with safety and without\ninterfering with other traffic.\n (b) The driver of a vehicle shall not back the same upon any shoulder\nor roadway of any controlled-ac…

§ 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\nperson shall drive a motor vehicle when it is so loaded, or when there\nare in the front seat such number of persons as to obstruct the view of\nthe driver to the front or sides of the vehicle or as to interfere …

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

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

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

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

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

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

§ 122. Local authorities. Every county, municipal or other local\nboard, body or officer, county park commission, parkway authority,\nbridge authority, bridge and tunnel authority, the office of parks and\nrecreation, the New York state thruway authority or similar body or\npers…

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

§ 122-b. Maximum performance speed. For the purposes of article\nforty-eight-A of this chapter, maximum performance speed shall be the\ngreatest speed which can be attained and maintained by a limited use\nvehicle under conditions prescribed by the commissioner at the time of\ni…

§ 122-c. Mobile home or manufactured home. A structure, transportable\nin one or more sections, which in the traveling mode, is eight body feet\nor more in width or forty body feet or more in length, or when erected\non site, is three hundred twenty or more square feet, and whic…

§ 1220. Throwing refuse on highways and adjacent lands prohibited. (a)\nNo person shall throw, dump, deposit or place, or cause to be thrown,\ndumped, deposited or placed upon any highway, or within the limits of\nthe right of way of such highway, or upon private lands adjacent\…

§ 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…