N.Y. Vehicle & Traffic Law § 1144-a: Operation of vehicles when approaching a parked, stopped or standing authorized emergency vehicle, hazard vehicle, vehicle displaying a b...

§ 1144-a. Operation of vehicles when approaching a parked, stopped or

standing authorized emergency vehicle, hazard vehicle, vehicle

displaying a blue or green light or certain other motor vehicles. (a)

Every operator of a motor vehicle shall exercise due care to avoid

colliding with an authorized emergency vehicle which is parked, stopped

or standing on the shoulder or any portion of such highway and such

authorized emergency vehicle is displaying one or more red or

combination red and white lights pursuant to the provisions of paragraph

two of subdivision forty-one of section three hundred seventy-five of

this chapter or is displaying one or more blue, combination blue and red

or combination blue, red and white lights pursuant to the provisions of

subparagraph b of paragraph four of subdivision forty-one of section

three hundred seventy-five of this chapter. For operators of motor

vehicles on parkways or controlled access highways, such due care shall

include, but not be limited to, moving from a lane which contains or is

immediately adjacent to the shoulder where such authorized emergency

vehicle displaying one or more red, blue or white or any combination of

red and white lights or blue or combination blue and red or combination

blue, red and white lights pursuant to the provisions of paragraph two

or subparagraph b of paragraph four, as applicable of subdivision

forty-one of section three hundred seventy-five of this chapter is

parked, stopped or standing to another lane, provided that such movement

otherwise complies with the requirements of this chapter including, but

not limited to, the provisions of sections eleven hundred ten of this

title and eleven hundred twenty-eight of this title.

(b) Every operator of a motor vehicle shall exercise due care to avoid

colliding with a hazard vehicle which is parked, stopped or standing on

the shoulder or on any portion of such highway and such hazard vehicle

is displaying one or more amber lights pursuant to the provisions of

paragraph three of subdivision forty-one of section three hundred

seventy-five of this chapter or, if such hazard vehicle is designed for

the towing or pushing of disabled vehicles such hazard vehicle is

displaying one or more amber lights or one or more blue or combination

blue and amber lights pursuant to the provisions of paragraph three or

subparagraph b-1 of paragraph four, as applicable, of subdivision

forty-one of section three hundred seventy-five of this chapter or, if

such hazard vehicle owned and operated by the state or by a county,

city, town or village is designed for the removal of ice and snow such

hazard vehicle is displaying one or more amber lights or one or more

green or combination green and amber lights pursuant to the provisions

of paragraph three or subparagraph (c) of paragraph five, as applicable,

of subdivision forty-one of section three hundred seventy-five of this

chapter. For operators of motor vehicles on parkways or controlled

access highways, such due care shall include, but not be limited to,

moving from a lane which contains or is immediately adjacent to the

shoulder where (i) such hazard vehicle displaying one or more amber

lights pursuant to the provisions of paragraph three of subdivision

forty-one of section three hundred seventy-five of this chapter or (ii)

such hazard vehicle designed for the towing or pushing of disabled

vehicles displaying one or more amber lights or one or more blue or

combination blue and amber lights pursuant to the provisions of

paragraph three or subparagraph b-1 of paragraph four, as applicable, of

subdivision forty-one of section three hundred seventy-five of this

chapter or (iii) such hazard vehicle owned and operated by the state or

by a county, city, town or village is displaying one or more amber

lights or one or more green or combination green and amber lights

pursuant to the provisions of paragraph three or subparagraph (c) of

paragraph five, as applicable, of subdivision forty-one of section three

hundred seventy-five of this chapter, is parked, stopped or standing to

another lane, provided that such movement otherwise complies with the

requirements of this chapter including, but not limited to, the

provisions of sections eleven hundred ten and eleven hundred

twenty-eight of this title.

(c) Every operator of a motor vehicle shall exercise due care to avoid

colliding with a vehicle displaying a blue light pursuant to the

provisions of paragraph four or a green light pursuant to the provisions

of paragraph five of subdivision forty-one of section three hundred

seventy-five of this chapter which is parked, stopped or standing on the

shoulder or any portion of such highway. For operators of motor vehicles

on parkways or controlled access highways, such due care shall include,

but not be limited to, moving from a lane which contains or is

immediately adjacent to the shoulder where such vehicle displaying a

blue light pursuant to the provisions of paragraph four or a green light

pursuant to the provisions of paragraph five of subdivision forty-one of

section three hundred seventy-five of this chapter is parked, stopped or

standing to another lane, provided that such movement otherwise complies

with the requirements of this chapter including, but not limited to, the

provisions of sections eleven hundred ten and eleven hundred

twenty-eight of this title.

(d) Every operator of a motor vehicle on a parkway and on a

controlled-access highway shall exercise due care to avoid colliding

with a motor vehicle which is parked, stopped or standing on the

shoulder or any portion of such parkway or controlled-access highway.

For the purposes of this subdivision, such due care shall include, but

not be limited to, moving from a lane which contains or is immediately

adjacent to the shoulder where such motor vehicle is parked, stopped or

standing to another lane, provided that such movement otherwise complies

with the requirements of this chapter including, but not limited to, the

provisions of sections eleven hundred ten and eleven hundred

twenty-eight of this title.