Method of giving hand and arm signals by bicyclists. Effect of regulations.§ 1621. The authorities having charge or control of any highway, public street, park, parkway, driveway, or place, shall have no power or authority to pass, enforce or maintain any ordinance, rule or regulation by which any person using a bicycle or tricycle shall be excluded or prohibited from the free use of any highway, public street, avenue, roadway, driveway, parkway, park, or place, at any time when the same is open to the free use of persons having and using other pleasure carriages, except upon such driveway, speedway or road as has been or may be expressly set apart by law for the exclusive use of horses and light carriages. Go to text reference it must meet federal motor vehicle safety standard 500 (49 CFR 571.500) its maximum performance speed must be certified by the manufacturer it must appear on the list of approved limited use vehicles Pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicle, bicycles, and other conveyances either singly or together while using any highway for purposes of travel.§ 1650. Imagine trying to buy a car and not knowing if it was legal on every street? Traffic laws apply to persons riding bicycles or skating or gliding on in-line skates. Every person riding a bicycle or skating or gliding on in-line skates 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 by this title, except as to special regulations in this article and except as to those provisions of this title which by their nature can have no application.§ 1239. Lamps and other equipment on bicycles.
In the event a highway includes two or more separated roadways the term roadway as used herein shall refer to any such roadway separately but not to all such roadways collectively.Listed below are links to those sections of the New York State Vehicle and TrafficLaws, and New York State Highways Laws that pertain to the safe operation of a bicycle.Highway Law Section 316 Entitled to free use of highway. Traffic regulations in all cities and villages.§ 316. Other traffic regulations on state highways and on indian reservations.§ 1238. *§ 1640. That improved portion of a highway contiguous with the roadway.§ 159.
Passengers on bicycles under one year of age prohibited; passengers and operators under fourteen years of age to wear protective headgear.§ 102. The commissioner is hereby directed to promulgate rules and regulations to establish standards for reflective devices and/or material to be equipped into in-line skates pursuant to section three hundred ninety-one-m of the general business law.§ 1235. No person operating a skate board shall carry any package, bundle, or article which obstructs his or her vision in any direction.§ 102-b. But nothing herein shall prevent the passage, enforcement or maintenance of any regulation, ordinance or rule, regulating the use of bicycles or tricycles in highways, public streets, driveways, parks, parkways, and places, or the regulation of the speed of carriages, vehicles or engines, in public parks and upon parkways and driveways in the city of New York, under the exclusive jurisdiction and control of the department of parks and recreation of said city, nor prevent any such authorities in any other city from regulating the speed of any vehicles herein described in such manner as to limit and determine the proper rate of speed with which such vehicle may be propelled nor in such manner as to require, direct or prohibit the use of bells, lamps and other appurtenances nor to prohibit the use of any vehicle upon that part of the highway, street, park, or parkway, commonly known as the footpath or sidewalk. § 1660. Every device in, upon, or by which a person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway, except devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks§ 1240. 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. • A child one or more years of age but less than five years of age must wear an approved helmet and be carried in a... • A child five or more years of age but less than fourteen years of age must wear an approved helmet That portion of a highway improved, designated, marked or ordinarily used for vehicular travel, exclusive of the shoulder and slope. A portion of the roadway which has been designated by striping, signing and pavement markings for the preferential or exclusive use of bicycles.§ 1182. But nothing herein shall prevent the passage, enforcement or maintenance of any regulation, ordinance or rule, regulating the use of bicycles or tricycles in highways, public streets, driveways, parks, parkways, and places, or the regulation of the speed of carriages, vehicles or engines, in public parks and upon parkways and driveways in the city of New York, under the exclusive jurisdiction and control of the … • A child under age one is not permitted to ride on a bicycle. Entitled to free use of highways.