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N.Y. Vehicle & Traffic Law § 143 Semitrailer
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§ 143. Semitrailer. Any trailer which is so designed that when operated the forward end of its body or chassis rests upon the body or chassis of the towing vehicle.
N.Y. Vehicle & Traffic Law § 143-A Shoulder
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§ 143-a. Shoulder. That improved portion of a highway contiguous with the roadway.
N.Y. Vehicle & Traffic Law § 144 Sidewalk
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§ 144. Sidewalk. That portion of a street between the curb lines, or the lateral lines of a roadway, and the adjacent property lines, intended for the use of pedestrians.
N.Y. Vehicle & Traffic Law § 144-A Slope
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§ 144-a. Slope. That portion of a highway exclusive of the roadway and shoulder.
N.Y. Vehicle & Traffic Law § 144-B Snow emergency
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§ 144-b. Snow emergency. A determination made by the official having jurisdiction of a highway that, because of existing or forecasted weather conditions, pursuant to section sixteen hundred twenty-one, sixteen hundred forty, sixteen hundred fifty or sixteen hundred sixty of thi…
N.Y. Vehicle & Traffic Law § 145 Stand or standing
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§ 145. Stand or standing. Means the stopping of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise than temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in receiving or discharging passengers.
N.Y. Vehicle & Traffic Law § 145-A State expressway routes
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§ 145-a. State expressway routes. Those highways specified and described as such pursuant to section three hundred forty-c of the highway law.
N.Y. Vehicle & Traffic Law § 145-B State interstate routes
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§ 145-b. State interstate routes. Those highways specified and described as such pursuant to section three hundred forty-a of the highway law.
N.Y. Vehicle & Traffic Law § 145-C Snow emergency route
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§ 145-c. Snow emergency route. A street or highway designated as a snow emergency route by the state or municipality having jurisdiction over such street or highway upon which no vehicle shall operate without snow tires and/or tire chains when a snow emergency has been declared …
N.Y. Vehicle & Traffic Law § 145-D Definition of snow tire
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§ 145-d. Definition of snow tire. Snow tires shall include tires in which the ply cords extending to the beads are nearly at right angles to the center line of the tread commonly referred to as radial tires and the commissioner shall promulgate rules and regulations defining the…
N.Y. Vehicle & Traffic Law § 145-E Stinger-steered automobile transporter
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§ 145-e. Stinger-steered automobile transporter. An automobile transporter configured as a semitrailer combination wherein the fifth wheel is located on a drop frame located behind and below the rear-most axle of the power unit.
N.Y. Vehicle & Traffic Law § 145-F Stinger-steered boat transporter
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§ 145-f. Stinger-steered boat transporter. A boat transporter configured as a semitrailer combination wherein the fifth wheel is located on a drop frame located behind and below the rear-most axle of the power unit.
N.Y. Vehicle & Traffic Law § 146 Stop
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§ 146. Stop. When required means complete cessation from movement.
N.Y. Vehicle & Traffic Law § 147 Stop or stopping
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§ 147. Stop or stopping. When prohibited means any halting even momentarily of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the directions of a police officer or traffic-control sign or signal.
N.Y. Vehicle & Traffic Law § 148 Street
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§ 148. Street. The entire width between the boundary lines of every way publicly maintained when any part thereof is open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel.
N.Y. Vehicle & Traffic Law § 148-A Taxicab
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§ 148-a. Taxicab. Every motor vehicle, other than a bus, used in the business of transporting passengers for compensation, and operated in such business under a license or permit issued by a local authority. However, it shall not include vehicles which are rented or leased witho…
N.Y. Vehicle & Traffic Law § 148-B Tow truck
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§ 148-b. Tow truck. A motor vehicle that tows or carries a disabled, illegally parked or abandoned motor vehicle or a motor vehicle involved in an accident.
N.Y. Vehicle & Traffic Law § 149 Through highway
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§ 149. Through highway. Every highway or portion thereof on which vehicular traffic is given preferential right of way, and at the entrances to which vehicular traffic from intersecting highways is controlled by traffic-control signals or is required by law to yield the right of…
N.Y. Vehicle & Traffic Law § 151-A Tractor
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§ 151-a. Tractor. A motor vehicle designed and used as the power unit in combination with a semitrailer or trailer, or two such trailers in tandem. Any such motor vehicle shall not carry cargo except that a tractor and semitrailer engaged in the transportation of automobiles may…
N.Y. Vehicle & Traffic Law § 152 Traffic
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§ 152. Traffic. Pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles, bicycles, and other conveyances either singly or together while using any highway for purposes of travel.
N.Y. Vehicle & Traffic Law § 153 Traffic control devices
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§ 153. Traffic control devices. All signs, signals, markings, and devices not inconsistent with this chapter placed or erected by authority of a public body or official having jurisdiction for the purpose of regulating, warning or guiding traffic.
N.Y. Vehicle & Traffic Law § 154 Traffic-control signal
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§ 154. Traffic-control signal. Any device, whether manually, electrically, or mechanically operated, by which traffic is alternately directed to stop and permitted to proceed.
N.Y. Vehicle & Traffic Law § 155 Traffic infraction
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§ 155. Traffic infraction. The violation of any provision of this chapter, except articles forty-seven and forty-eight, or of any law, ordinance, order, rule or regulation regulating traffic which is not declared by this chapter or other law of this state to be a misdemeanor or …
N.Y. Vehicle & Traffic Law § 156 Trailer
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§ 156. Trailer. Any vehicle not propelled by its own power drawn on the public highways by a motor vehicle as defined in section one hundred twenty-five operated thereon, except motorcycle side cars, vehicles being towed by a non-rigid support and vehicles designed and primarily…
N.Y. Vehicle & Traffic Law § 157 Trolley bus or trolley coach
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§ 157. Trolley bus or trolley coach. Any motor vehicle not operated on rails or tracks which is propelled by electric power received from overhead trolley wires and which is operated by a person or corporation subject to the jurisdiction of the public service commission, pursuan…
N.Y. Vehicle & Traffic Law § 158 Truck
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§ 158. Truck. Every motor vehicle designed, used, or maintained primarily for the transportation of property.
N.Y. Vehicle & Traffic Law § 158-A U turn
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§ 158-a. U turn. Any turn executed so as to proceed in the opposite direction.
N.Y. Vehicle & Traffic Law § 158-B Vanpool vehicle
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§ 158-b. Vanpool vehicle. Any motor vehicle which is manufactured and equipped in such manner as to provide a seating capacity of not less than six and not more than fifteen passengers, in addition to the driver, and which is owned by, or leased to, a person, firm, corporation, …
N.Y. Vehicle & Traffic Law § 159 Vehicle
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§ 159. Vehicle. Every device in, upon, or by which any person or\nproperty is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway, except\ndevices moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails\nor tracks.\n
N.Y. Vehicle & Traffic Law § 159-A Waste collection vehicle
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§ 159-a. Waste collection vehicle. Any motor vehicle which is commonly classified as a garbage truck that is designed for and is used in the collection of refuse and/or recyclable materials.
N.Y. Vehicle & Traffic Law § 160 Wheel lift
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§ 160. Wheel lift. Any device that may be extended beyond the rear bumper of a tow truck or car carrier for the purpose of towing another vehicle. Such device may also be referred to as an "under lift".
N.Y. Vehicle & Traffic Law § 1600 Provisions of chapter uniform throughout state
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§ 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…
N.Y. Vehicle & Traffic Law § 1601 Rights of owners of real property
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§ 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 cond…
N.Y. Vehicle & Traffic Law § 1602 Emergency rule
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§ 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 pa…
N.Y. Vehicle & Traffic Law § 1603 Delegation of powers
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§ 1603. Delegation of powers. (a) Any or all of the powers granted by this chapter to the legislative body of a city or village or to the New York state thruway authority, the office of parks, recreation and historic preservation, the department of environmental conservation, th…
N.Y. Vehicle & Traffic Law § 1604 Local ordinances prohibited
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§ 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…
N.Y. Vehicle & Traffic Law § 161 Work area
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§ 161. Work area. That part of a highway being used or occupied for the conduct of highway work, within which workers, vehicles, equipment, materials, supplies, excavations, or other obstructions are present.
N.Y. Vehicle & Traffic Law § 1610 General powers and duties
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§ 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.
N.Y. Vehicle & Traffic Law § 1611 Effect of department orders
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§ 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.
N.Y. Vehicle & Traffic Law § 1612 Enforcement
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§ 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.
N.Y. Vehicle & Traffic Law § 1613 Review by courts
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§ 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. Proceedin…
N.Y. Vehicle & Traffic Law § 1620 Speed limits on state highways, and on Indian reservations
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§ 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…
N.Y. Vehicle & Traffic Law § 1621 Other traffic regulations on state highways and on indian reservations
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§ 1621. Other traffic regulations on state highways and on indian reservations. (a) The department of transportation with respect to state highways maintained by the state, the intersection of any highway with a state highway maintained by the state, and any highway intersecting…
N.Y. Vehicle & Traffic Law § 1622 Speed limits on county roads and town highways
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§ 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 ou…
N.Y. Vehicle & Traffic Law § 1623 Regulation of traffic on the grounds of state departments, institutions of the state university, state hospitals and other state institut...
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§ 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 univers…
N.Y. Vehicle & Traffic Law § 1624 Limitation on scope of local speed limits; reports of local speeding convictions to department of transportation
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§ 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 departme…
N.Y. Vehicle & Traffic Law § 1625 Traffic regulations on restricted highways
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§ 1625. Traffic regulations on restricted highways. (a) The department of transportation, a county superintendent of highways, or a town superintendent of highways, with respect to any restricted highway, as defined in section one hundred four-a of the highway law, may prohibit,…
N.Y. Vehicle & Traffic Law § 1626 Regulation of rest and parking areas and scenic overlooks
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§ 1626. Regulation of rest and parking areas and scenic overlooks. The department of transportation with respect to rest and parking areas and scenic overlooks provided by the department of transportation along state highways maintained by the state, may prohibit, restrict or re…
N.Y. Vehicle & Traffic Law § 1627 Designation of qualifying highways and access highways
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§ 1627. Designation of qualifying highways and access highways. (a) The commissioner of transportation shall, for the purposes of this chapter, by rule or regulation, designate qualifying highways which shall be highways on the national system of interstate and defense highways …
N.Y. Vehicle & Traffic Law § 1628 Traffic regulations on bridge approaches to the barge canal system
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§ 1628. Traffic regulations on bridge approaches to the barge canal system. The department of transportation with respect to any bridge structure that crosses a waterway which is part of the barge canal system may by order, rule or regulation, regulate traffic on the approaches …