§ 1231. Traffic laws apply to persons riding bicycles or skating or\ngliding on in-line skates. Every person riding a bicycle or skating or\ngliding on in-line skates upon a roadway shall be granted all of the\nrights and shall be subject to all of the duties applicable to the\ndriver of a vehicle by this title, except as to special regulations in\nthis article and except as to those provisions of this title which by\ntheir nature can have no application.\n
N.Y. Veh. & Traf. Law § 1231
Traffic laws apply to persons riding bicycles or skating or gliding on in-line skates
Applied in 15 court decisions — leading case Min Zhong v. Matranga (2022)
Most recently applied in Oliinyk v. Yusupov (July 2023)
2014-09-22
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