N.Y. Vehicle & Traffic Law § 1272: Operating electric personal assistive mobility devices

§ 1272. Operating electric personal assistive mobility devices. 1. No

electric personal assistive mobility device shall be used to carry more

persons at one time than the number for which such device is designed

and equipped. No person operating an electric personal assistive

mobility device shall carry any person as a passenger in a pack fastened

to the operator or fastened to such device.

2. No person shall operate an electric personal assistive mobility

device outside during the period of time between one-half hour after

sunset and one-half hour before sunrise unless such person is wearing

readily visible reflective clothing or material which is of a light or

bright color.

3. No person operating an electric personal assistive mobility device

shall carry any package, bundle or article which prevents the operator

from keeping at least one hand upon the handle bars or which obstructs

his or her vision in any direction.

4. Every person operating an electric personal assistive mobility

device shall yield the right of way to pedestrians and motor vehicles.

5. Every operator of an electric personal assistive mobility device

shall be sixteen years of age or older.

6. No person shall operate an electric personal assistive mobility

device in a state park or historic site.

7. If the governing body of any county not wholly included within a

city, city with a population of less than one million, town or village

shall authorize the use of electric personal assistive mobility devices

upon any sidewalk, such authorization shall not permit the operation

thereof at a speed in excess of eight miles per hour. Additionally, if

such authorization is granted, no operator of an electric personal

assistive mobility device shall overtake a pedestrian on a sidewalk

unless there is adequate space for the personal assistive mobility

device to pass around the pedestrian and warning is given to such

pedestrian through the audible device defined in subdivision two of

section twelve hundred seventy-five of this article.

8. A first violation of the provisions of this section shall result in

no fine. A second or subsequent violation shall result in a civil fine

not to exceed fifty dollars.