Title VAT, Vehicle & Traffic

§ 1662-d. Residential parking system in the town of Mamaroneck. 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of any law to the contrary, the town board of the town of Mamaroneck may, by adoption of a local law or ordinance, provide for a residential parking permit system and fix and requir…

§ 1662-e. Residential parking system in the town of Hempstead. 1.\nNotwithstanding the provisions of any law to the contrary, the town\nboard of the town of Hempstead may, by adoption of a local law or\nordinance, provide for a residential parking permit system and fix and\nrequ…

§ 1663. Special speed limits on bridges and other elevated structures. The town board of any town may determine the maximum speed which may be maintained without structural damage to bridges and elevated structures that are a part of any town highway in such town and, if, such m…

§ 1664. Application of article. This article shall not apply with respect to state highways maintained by the state which are controlled access highways, nor to highways under the jurisdiction of the New York state thruway authority, the office of parks and recreation, a county …

§ 1670. Regulation of traffic within municipal facilities. Any local authority or school district, with respect to driveways or parking fields accessory to any school, playground, park, municipal building, installation or facility, and under the jurisdiction of such local author…

§ 1671. Access of motorcycles. No local authority may enact or enforce a law that applies only to motorcycles and the principal purpose of which is to restrict the access of motorcycles to any highway or portion of a highway under the jurisdiction of any such local authority for…

§ 1672. Traffic safety board. Any city, any town, or any county not wholly included within a city may by local law establish a traffic safety board. The borough president of any county wholly included within a city may establish a traffic safety board for such county.

§ 1673. Membership of board. (a) Such board shall be composed of not less than ten members interested in traffic safety and traffic problems appointed by the city council, town board, borough president or board of supervisors or other governing body of the city, town, borough or…

§ 1674. Organization and reports by the board. The traffic safety board shall: 1. Meet and organize within fifteen days after its members are appointed. 2. Elect annually a chairman, vice-chairman and a secretary from its members. 3. Adopt rules for the conduct of its business. …

§ 1675. Functions of the board. The board is authorized: 1. To promote and encourage street and highway traffic safety. 2. To formulate highway safety programs and coordinate efforts of interested parties and agencies engaged in traffic safety education within such city, town, b…

§ 1676. Executive secretary of board. The executive secretary of the board shall: 1. Subject to the supervision and control of the board perform the functions necessary to properly and efficiently carry out the provisions and purposes of this article. 2. Be a citizen of the Unit…

§ 1677. County purpose and charges. For any county not wholly included within a city, the provisions of this article and expenditures made hereunder shall be deemed a county purpose and charge.

§ 1680. Department of transportation to maintain a manual of uniform traffic-control devices. (a) The department of transportation shall maintain a manual and specifications for a uniform system of traffic-control devices consistent with the provisions of this chapter for use up…

§ 1681. State traffic-control devices. (a) The department of\ntransportation shall order the installation, operation, maintenance and\nremoval of such traffic-control devices, conforming to its manual and\nspecifications, upon all state highways maintained by the state or on\nan…

§ 1682. Local traffic-control devices. Local authorities in their respective jurisdiction shall place and maintain such traffic-control devices, conforming to the state manual and specifications, as they may deem necessary to indicate and carry out the provisions of this chapter…

§ 1683. Signs or markings required. (a) No ordinance, order, rule or regulation made by any local authority under the powers conferred by this title shall be effective until signs or markings giving notice thereof are posted, except under such conditions as may be authorized in …

§ 1684. State highways maintained by the state. No local authority shall place or maintain any traffic-control device on any state highway maintained by the state, or at any location so as to prohibit, restrict or limit the movement of traffic proceeding along, entering or cross…

§ 1685. All vehicles must stop or yield at certain railroad grade crossings where a stop or yield sign is erected. The state transportation commissioner, with respect to state highways, and local authorities with respect to local streets within their jurisdiction, with the appro…

§ 1690. Authority of the Nassau county and Suffolk county district court judicial hearing officers and the city of Buffalo judicial hearing officers and the city of Rochester judicial hearing officers. 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, where the trial of a traffic o…

§ 1691. Definitions. As used in this article: 1. "Transportation network company vehicle" or "TNC vehicle" means a vehicle that is: (a) used by a transportation network company driver to provide a TNC prearranged trip originating within the state of New York; and (b) owned, leas…

§ 1692. General provisions. 1. A TNC or a TNC driver shall not be deemed a common carrier, as defined in subdivision six of section two of the transportation law; a contract carrier of passengers by motor vehicle, as defined in subdivision nine of section two of the transportati…

§ 1693. Financial responsibility of transportation network companies. 1. A TNC driver, or TNC on the TNC driver's behalf through a group policy, shall maintain insurance that recognizes that the driver is a TNC driver and provides financial responsibility coverage: (a) while the…

§ 1694. Disclosures. A TNC shall disclose in writing to TNC drivers the following before they are allowed to accept a request for a TNC prearranged trip on the TNC's digital network: 1. The insurance coverage, including the types of coverage and the limits for each coverage, tha…

§ 1695. Insurance provisions. 1. Insurers that write motor vehicle insurance in this state may, in the insurance policy, exclude any and all coverage afforded under the policy issued to an owner or operator of a TNC vehicle for any loss or injury that occurs while a TNC driver i…

§ 1696. Driver and vehicle requirements. 1. (a) At all times, an individual acting as a TNC driver shall be permitted by the TNC as follows: (i) The individual shall submit an application to the TNC, which shall include information regarding his or her address, age, driver's lic…

§ 1697. Maintenance of records. A TNC shall maintain the following records: 1. individual trip records for at least six years from the date each trip was provided; and 2. individual records of TNC drivers at least until the six year anniversary of the date on which a TNC driver'…

§ 1698. Audit procedures; confidentiality of records. 1. For the purpose of verifying that a TNC is in compliance with the licensing requirements of the department, the department shall reserve the right to audit a sample of records that the TNC is required to maintain, upon req…

§ 1699. Criminal history background check of transportation network company drivers. 1. A TNC shall conduct, or have a third party conduct, a criminal history background check using a lawful method approved by the department pursuant to paragraph (a) of subdivision two of this s…

§ 1700. Controlling authority. 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the regulation of TNCs and TNC drivers is governed exclusively by the provisions of the chapter of the laws of two thousand seventeen which added this section and any rules promulgated by the state thr…

§ 1701. Legislative findings and declaration. The ongoing failures of the tracks, signals, switches, electrical power, and other transportation infrastructure throughout the subway system in the city of New York continue to have a significant deleterious impact on the health, sa…

§ 1702. Short title. This act shall be known as and may be cited as "the traffic mobility act".

§ 1703. Definitions. For the purposes of this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "City" means the city of New York. 2. "Central business district toll" means a toll charged for entry into or remaining in the central business district as described in section seven…

§ 1704. Establishment of central business district tolling program. 1.\nThe Triborough bridge and tunnel authority shall establish the central\nbusiness district tolling program.\n 2. The central business district tolling program will operate in the\ncentral business district. T…

§ 1704-a. Central business district toll. 1. Consistent with the goals\nof reducing traffic congestion within the central business district and\nfunding capital projects the Triborough bridge and tunnel authority\nshall have the power, subject to agreements with its bondholders,…

§ 1705. Disposition of revenue and penalties. The Triborough bridge and tunnel authority shall establish and collect central business district tolls, fees and other charges as provided in subdivision twelve-a of section five hundred fifty-three of the public authorities law.

§ 1706. Reporting. Beginning one year after the operation date and every two years thereafter, the Triborough bridge and tunnel authority, in consultation with the city department of transportation shall report on the effect of the central business district tolling program on tr…

§ 1800. Penalties for traffic infractions. (a) It is a traffic infraction for any person to violate any of the provisions of this chapter or of any local law, ordinance, order, rule or regulation adopted pursuant to this chapter, unless such violation is by this chapter or other…

§ 1801. Penalties for misdemeanors. 1. Every person convicted of a misdemeanor for a violation of any of the provisions of this chapter for which another penalty is not provided shall for a first conviction thereof be punished by a fine of not more than three hundred dollars or …

§ 1802. Receipts for fines or bail; installment payment plans. 1.\nReceipts for fines or bail. Upon receipt of the payment of any fine or\npenalty collected under a sentence or judgment of conviction of a\nviolation of any of the provisions of this chapter or any local law,\nord…

§ 1803. Disposition of fines and forfeitures. 1. Except as otherwise provided in subdivision five of section two hundred twenty-seven of this chapter and as provided in section eleven hundred ninety-seven of this chapter, section ninety of the state finance law and sections four…

§ 1804. Prohibition of imposition and collection of a fine, penalty, forfeiture, fee or surcharge. A municipality may only impose a fine, penalty, forfeiture, or any other fee or surcharge against a person charged with a violation of this chapter or any local law, ordinance, ord…

§ 1805. Plea of guilty, how put in. The provisions of section 170.10 of the criminal procedure law and the provisions of section eighteen hundred seven of this article may be waived, to the extent hereinafter indicated, by a defendant charged with a violation of any provision of…

§ 1806. Plea of not guilty by a defendant charged with a traffic infraction. In addition to appearing personally to enter a plea of not guilty to a violation of any provision of the tax law or the transportation law regulating traffic, or to a traffic infraction for the violatio…

§ 1806-a. Default judgment in cases of failure to answer. 1. In the event a person charged with a traffic infraction does not answer within the time specified, the court having jurisdiction, other than a court in a city over one million population may, in addition to any other a…

§ 1807. Provisions applicable to arraignments for traffic violations. 1. The local criminal court, upon the arraignment in this state of a resident of this state charged with a violation of the vehicle and traffic law, or other law or ordinance relating to the operation of motor…

§ 1808. Effect of stay order on appeal from judgment of conviction of an offense under this chapter. (a) When an appeal is taken to an intermediate appellate court from a conviction of an offense under this chapter resulting in the suspension or revocation of the defendant's mot…

§ 1809. Mandatory surcharge and crime victim assistance fee required in certain cases. * 1. Whenever proceedings in an administrative tribunal or a court of this state result in a conviction for an offense under this chapter or a traffic infraction under this chapter, or a local…

* § 1809-a. Mandatory surcharge required in certain cities for\nparking, stopping and standing violations. 1. The provisions of any\nother general or special law notwithstanding, whenever, in a city having\na population of one hundred thousand or more according to the nineteen\n…

§ 1809-aa. Mandatory surcharge required for certain parking violations. 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, whenever proceedings in an administrative tribunal or court result in a conviction for a violation of section twelve hundred, twelve hundred one or twelve hundr…

§ 1809-b. Mandatory surcharge required for certain violations relating to handicapped parking spaces. 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, whenever proceedings in an administrative tribunal or a court result in a finding of liability, or conviction for a violation of s…