N.Y. Vehicle & Traffic Law § 1236: Lamps and other equipment on bicycles

§ 1236. Lamps and other equipment on bicycles. (a) Every bicycle when

in use during the period from one-half hour after sunset to one-half

hour before sunrise shall be equipped with a lamp on the front which

shall emit a white light visible during hours of darkness from a

distance of at least five hundred feet to the front and with a red or

amber light visible to the rear for three hundred feet. Effective July

first, nineteen hundred seventy-six, at least one of these lights shall

be visible for two hundred feet from each side.

(b) No person shall operate a bicycle unless it is equipped with a

bell or other device capable of giving a signal audible for a distance

of at least one hundred feet, except that a bicycle shall not be

equipped with nor shall any person use upon a bicycle any siren or

whistle.

(c) Every bicycle shall be equipped with a brake which will enable the

operator to make the braked wheels skid on dry, level, clean pavement.

(d) Every new bicycle shall be equipped with reflective tires or,

alternately, a reflex reflector mounted on the spokes of each wheel,

said tires and reflectors to be of types approved by the commissioner.

The reflex reflector mounted on the front wheel shall be colorless or

amber, and the reflex reflector mounted on the rear wheel shall be

colorless or red.

(e) Every bicycle when in use during the period from one-half hour

after sunset to one-half hour before sunrise shall be equipped with

reflective devices or material meeting the standards established by

rules and regulations promulgated by the commissioner; provided,

however, that such standards shall not be inconsistent with or otherwise

conflict with the requirements of subdivisions (a) and (d) of this

section.