Title VAT, Vehicle & Traffic

§ 127. Overhang. That portion of a transported vehicle or boat which extends beyond the front or rear bumper of an automobile transporter or stinger-steered automobile transporter or boat transporter or stinger-steered boat transporter, or that portion of a transported vehicle t…

§ 1270. Effect of regulations. 1. The parent of any child and the guardian of any ward shall not authorize or knowingly permit any such child or ward to violate any of the provisions of this article. 2. These regulations applicable to electric personal assistive mobility devices…

§ 1271. Traffic laws apply to persons operating electric personal assistive mobility devices; local laws. 1. Except in cities with a population of one million or more and except as provided by local law, ordinance, order, rule or regulation enacted or promulgated pursuant to sub…

§ 1272. Operating electric personal assistive mobility devices. 1. No electric personal assistive mobility device shall be used to carry more persons at one time than the number for which such device is designed and equipped. No person operating an electric personal assistive mo…

§ 1273. Clinging to vehicles. 1. No person operating an electric personal assistive mobility device shall attach such device, or himself or herself to any vehicle being operated upon a roadway. 2. No vehicle operator shall knowingly permit any person to attach any electric perso…

§ 1274. Riding on roadways, shoulders and lanes reserved for non-motorized vehicles and devices. 1. Upon all roadways, any electric personal assistive mobility device shall be operated either on a usable bicycle or in-line skate lane or, if a usable bicycle or in-line skate lane…

§ 1275. Lamps and other equipment. 1. Every electric personal assistive mobility device 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…

§ 1276. Operators to wear protective headgear. 1. No person shall ride upon, propel or otherwise operate an electric personal assistive mobility device unless such person is wearing a helmet meeting standards established by the commissioner pursuant to the provisions of subdivis…

§ 1277. Leaving the scene of an incident involving an electric personal assistive mobility device without reporting. 1. (a) Any person eighteen years of age or older operating an electric personal assistive mobility device who, knowing or having cause to know, that physical inju…

§ 128. Owner. A person, other than a lien holder, having the property\nin or title to a vehicle or vessel. The term includes a person entitled\nto the use and possession of a vehicle or vessel subject to a security\ninterest in another person and also includes any lessee or bail…

§ 1280. Effect of regulations. 1. The parent of any child and the guardian of any ward shall not authorize or knowingly permit any such child or ward to violate any of the provisions of this article. 2. These regulations applicable to electric scooters shall apply whenever an el…

§ 1281. Traffic laws apply to persons operating electric scooters; local laws. 1. Every person riding an electric scooter upon a roadway shall be granted all of the rights and shall be subject to all of the duties applicable to the driver of a vehicle and the rider of a bicycle …

§ 1282. Operating electric scooters. 1. No electric scooter shall be used to carry more than one person at one time. No person operating an electric scooter shall carry any person as a passenger in a pack fastened to the operator or fastened to the electric scooter. The failure …

§ 1283. Clinging to vehicles. 1. No person operating an electric scooter shall attach such scooter, or himself or herself, to any vehicle being operated upon a roadway. 2. No vehicle operator shall knowingly permit any person to attach any electric scooter, or himself or herself…

§ 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, ne…

§ 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 o…

§ 1286. Operators to wear protective headgear. 1. No person sixteen or\nseventeen years of age shall ride upon, propel or otherwise operate an\nelectric scooter unless such person is wearing a helmet meeting\nstandards established by the commissioner pursuant to the provisions o…

§ 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 se…

§ 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…

§ 1289. Operation of an electric scooter while under the influence of alcohol or drugs. 1. Offenses; criminal penalties. (a) Operating an electric scooter while ability impaired. No person shall operate an electric scooter while the person's ability to operate such electric scoo…

§ 129. Park or parking. Means the standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise than temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading merchandise or passengers.

§ 129-a. Parking area of a shopping center. An area or areas of private property totaling at least one acre, near or contiguous to and provided in connection with premises having one or more stores or business establishments, and used by the public as a means of access to and eg…

§ 129-b. Parking lot. Any area or areas of private property near or contiguous to and provided in connection with premises having one or more stores or business establishments, and used by the public as a means of access to and egress from such stores and business establishments…

§ 130. Pedestrian. Any person afoot or in a wheelchair.

§ 130-a. Wheelchair. A wheelchair is any manual or electrically driven mobility assistance device, scooter, tricycle or similar device used by a person with a disability as a substitute for walking. An electrically driven mobility assistance device means any wheeled, electricall…

§ 131. Person. Every natural person, firm, copartnership, association, or corporation.

§ 131-a. Place of public assembly. A place of public assembly shall include (1) a theatre, (2) a moving picture house, or (3) an assembly hall maintained or leased for pecuniary gain where one hundred or more persons may assemble for amusement or recreation.

§ 132. Police officer. All police officers as defined in subdivision thirty-four of section 1.20 of the criminal procedure law, and every duly designated peace officer as defined in section 2.20 of such law, when such peace officer is acting pursuant to his special duties.

§ 132-a. Police vehicle. Every vehicle owned by the state, a public authority, a county, town, city or village, and operated by the police department or law enforcement agency of such governmental unit or by a constable or police constable of a town when acting pursuant to his s…

§ 133. Private road. Every way or place in private ownership and used for vehicular travel by the owner and those having express or implied permission from the owner, but not by other persons.

§ 134. Public highway. Any highway, road, street, avenue, alley, public place, public driveway or any other public way.

§ 134-a. Qualifying highway. The highways on the national system of interstate and defense highways and federal-aid primary system highways that are designated by the commissioner of transportation pursuant to section sixteen hundred twenty-seven of this chapter.

§ 134-b. Radar detector. Any instrument designed to detect the presence of microwaves at frequencies specifically assigned by the federal communications commission for the purpose of maintaining vehicular speed.

§ 134-c. Laser detector. Any instrument designed to detect the presence of laser speed detection devices.

§ 135. Railroad. A carrier of persons or property upon cars, other than streetcars, operated upon stationary rails.

§ 135-a. Railroad grade crossing. A location where a public highway or private road, including associated sidewalks, crosses one or more railroad tracks at grade.

§ 136. Railroad sign or signal. Any sign, signal, or device erected by authority of a public body or official by a railroad and intended to give notice of the presence of railroad tracks or the approach of a railroad train.

§ 137. Railroad train. A steam engine, electric or other motor locomotive or car, with or without cars coupled thereto, operated upon rails, except streetcars.

§ 137-a. Rental 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 in the name of such owner.

§ 138. Residence district. The territory contiguous to and including a highway not comprising a business district when the property on such highway for a distance of three hundred feet or more is in the main improved with residences or residences and buildings in use for busines…

§ 139. Right of way. The right of one vehicle or pedestrian to proceed in a lawful manner in preference to another vehicle or pedestrian approaching under such circumstances of direction, speed and proximity as to give rise to danger of collision unless one grants precedence to …

§ 140. Roadway. That portion of a highway improved, designed, marked, or ordinarily used for vehicular travel, exclusive of the shoulder and slope. In the event a highway includes two or more separate roadways the term "roadway" as used herein shall refer to any such roadway sep…

§ 140-a. In-line skate. A manufactured or assembled device consisting of an upper portion that is intended to be secured to a human foot, with a frame or chassis attached along the length of the bottom of such upper portion, with such frame or chassis holding two or more wheels …

§ 140-b. Roller skate. A manufactured or assembled device consisting of a frame or shoe having clamps or straps or both for fastening, with a pair of small wheels near the toe and another pair at the heel mounted or permanently attached thereto, for skating or gliding by means o…

§ 140-c. Skate board. A manufactured or assembled device consisting of a platform having a pair of small wheels near the front and another pair at the rear mounted or permanently attached thereto, for skating or gliding by means of human foot and leg power.

§ 140-d. Roundabout. A circular intersection which is characterized by a circulatory roadway with counterclockwise movement, channelized approaches, low speeds, and yield control of entering traffic. A roundabout encompasses the area bounded by the outermost curb line or, if the…

§ 141. Safety zone. The area or space officially set apart within a roadway for the exclusive use of pedestrians and which is protected or is so marked or indicated by adequate signs as to be plainly visible at all times while set apart as a safety zone.

§ 141-a. Sanitation patrol vehicle. Every vehicle operated by an officer or member of the sanitation police of the department of sanitation of the city of New York, duly appointed and designated as a peace officer by such department, when such officer or member is acting pursuan…

§ 141-b. Sani-vans. Any motor vehicle which is so designed that it contains a rear compaction unit and is intended for use in the collection of refuse. For the purpose of section one hundred seventeen-a of this chapter, the term "sani-van" shall mean any motor vehicle which is s…

§ 142. School bus. Every motor vehicle owned by a public or governmental agency or private school and operated for the transportation of pupils, children of pupils, teachers and other persons acting in a supervisory capacity, to or from school or school activities or privately o…