N.Y. Vehicle & Traffic Law § 1117: Traffic-control signals; malfunction

§ 1117. Traffic-control signals; malfunction. Except when directed to

proceed by a police officer, every operator of a motor vehicle

approaching an intersection governed by a traffic-control signal which

is out of service or otherwise malfunctioning shall stop in the manner

required for stop signs set forth in section eleven hundred seventy-two

of this title, and proceed according to the rules of right of way for

vehicles set forth in article twenty-six of this title.