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CHAPTER 775 AN ACT relating to motor vehicles, motor cycles, and highway traffic, constituting chapter seventy-one of the consolidated laws Became a law April 23, 1959, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, by a majority vote, three-fifths being present The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate an…
TITLE I WORDS AND PHRASES DEFINED Article 1. Words and phrases defined.
Article 1. Words and phrases defined. Section 100. Definition of words and phrases. 100-a. Access highway. 100-b. Ambulance. 100-c. Articulated bus. 100-d. Agricultural equipment. 101. Authorized emergency vehicle. 101-a. Automobile transporter. 101-b. Boat transporter. 101-c. B-train assembly. 102. Bicycle. 102-a. Bic…
§ 100. Definition of words and phrases. The following words and phrases when used in this chapter shall, for the purpose of this chapter, have the meanings respectively ascribed to them in this article except where another definition is specifically provided in any title, article or section for application in such titl…
§ 100-a. Access highway. Any highway providing access between a qualifying highway, as defined in section one hundred thirty-four-a of this article, and terminals, facilities for food, fuel, repairs, and rest and, in addition, for points of loading and unloading for household goods carriers as such highways are designa…
§ 100-b. Ambulance. Every motor vehicle designed, appropriately equipped and used for the purpose of carrying sick or injured persons by a person or entity registered or certified as an ambulance service by the department of health.
§ 100-c. Articulated bus. A two unit bus with a flexible coupling connection between the units.
§ 100-d. Agricultural equipment. Every agricultural tractor, self-propelled implement of husbandry, and towed, mounted or semi-mounted implement of husbandry. "Implement of husbandry" shall mean a vehicle designed or adapted exclusively for agricultural, horticultural or livestock raising operations or for lifting or c…
§ 101. Authorized emergency vehicle. Every ambulance, police vehicle or bicycle, correction vehicle, fire vehicle, civil defense emergency vehicle, emergency ambulance service vehicle, blood delivery vehicle, human organ delivery vehicle, county emergency medical services vehicle, environmental emergency response vehic…
§ 101-a. Automobile transporter. Any vehicle combination designed and used specifically for the transport of assembled (capable of being driven) motor vehicles.
§ 101-b. Boat transporter. Any vehicle combination designed and used specifically for the transport of boats.
§ 101-c. B-train assembly. A rigid frame extension attached to the rear frame of the first semitrailer, in a tractor-semitrailer-semitrailer combination of vehicles, which allows for a fifth wheel connection point for the second semitrailer.
§ 102. Bicycle. Every two or three wheeled device upon which a person or persons may ride, propelled by human power through a belt, a chain or gears, with such wheels in a tandem or tricycle, except that it shall not include such a device having solid tires and intended for use only on a sidewalk by pre-teenage childre…
§ 102-a. Bicycle lane. A portion of the roadway which has been designated by striping, signing and pavement markings for the preferential or exclusive use of bicycles.
§ 102-b. Bicycle path. A path physically separated from motorized vehicle traffic by an open space or barrier and either within the highway right-of-way or within an independent right-of-way and which is intended for the use of bicycles.
§ 102-c. Bicycle with electric assist. A bicycle which is no more than thirty-six inches wide and has an electric motor of less than seven hundred fifty watts, equipped with operable pedals, meeting the equipment and manufacturing requirements for bicycles adopted by the Consumer Product Safety Commission under 16 C.F.…
§ 103. Bureau. The department of motor vehicles of this state acting directly or through its duly authorized officers and agents.
§ 104. Bus. Every motor vehicle having a seating capacity of fifteen or more passengers in addition to the driver and used for the transportation of persons.
§ 105. Business district. The territory contiguous to and including a highway when within any six hundred feet along such highway there are buildings in use for business or industrial purposes, including but not limited to hotels, banks, or office buildings, railroad stations, and public buildings, which occupy at leas…
§ 105-a. Car carrier. A truck that is designed to carry one to three motor vehicles on a flat platform that slides or tilts to the ground to facilitate loading and unloading of such motor vehicles and to tow an additional motor vehicle behind it by the use of a wheel lift. For the purposes of this chapter, whenever suc…
§ 105-b. Certificate of registration. Any document or other indicia of registration, other than number plates or tags required to be affixed to such number plates or to the vehicle itself, in a form and name prescribed by the commissioner, which identifies the vehicle described thereon and indicates that such vehicle i…
§ 106. Circulatory roadway. The roadway within a circular intersection on which traffic travels in a counterclockwise direction around a central island.
§ 106-a. Civil defense emergency vehicle. Every communications vehicle and rescue vehicle owned by the state, a county, town, city or village and operated for civil defense purposes and equipped and marked as a civil defense emergency communications or rescue vehicle in compliance with the rules and regulations of the…
§ 107. Classes of cities. (a) City of the first class. A city with a population of one hundred seventy-five thousand or more. (b) City of the second class. A city with a population of fifty thousand and less than one hundred seventy-five thousand. (c) City of the third class. Any city not included in the foregoing clas…
§ 107-b. Commercial towing. The moving or removing of disabled, illegally parked, or abandoned motor vehicles or motor vehicles involved in accidents, by another motor vehicle, for which there is direct or indirect compensation. Commercial towing shall also include towing by a person, firm, corporation, or other entity…