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New York · Through 2026-09-11

N.Y. Vehicle & Traffic Law § 1181: Minimum speed regulations

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  1. Vehicle & Traffic Law
  2. Title 7. Rules of the Road
  3. Article 30. Speed Restrictions

§ 1181. Minimum speed regulations. (a) No person shall drive a motor

vehicle at such a slow speed as to impede the normal and reasonable

movement of traffic except when reduced speed is necessary for safe

operation or in compliance with law.

(b) Whenever a minimum speed limit has been established as authorized

in sections sixteen hundred twenty or sixteen hundred forty-two, no

person shall drive at a speed less than such minimum speed limit except

when entering upon or preparing to exit from the highway upon which such

a minimum speed limit has been established, when preparing to stop, or

when necessary for safe operation or in compliance with law.

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