2013 New York Consolidated Laws
VAT - Vehicle & Traffic
Title 7 - RULES OF THE ROAD
Article 23 - (1100 - 1105) OBEDIENCE TO AND EFFECT OF TRAFFIC LAWS
1100 - Provisions of title refer to vehicles upon highways; exceptions.

 
    § 1100. Provisions   of   title   refer  to  vehicles  upon  highways;
  exceptions. (a) The provisions of this title apply upon public highways,
  private roads open to public motor vehicle traffic and any other parking
  lot, except where a different place is specifically  referred  to  in  a
  given section.
    (b)  The provisions of this title relating to obedience to stop signs,
  flashing  signals,  yield  signs,  traffic-control  signals  and   other
  traffic-control devices, and to one-way, stopping, standing, parking and
  turning  regulations  shall  apply  to  a  parking  lot  only  when  the
  legislative body of any city, village or town has adopted a  local  law,
  ordinance,  rule or regulation ordering such signs, signals, devices, or
  regulations.
    (c) Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision (b) of this section,
  the provisions of subparagraph e of paragraph two of subdivision (a)  of
  section  twelve  hundred  two and section twelve hundred three-c of this
  chapter shall also apply to any area which  has  been  designated  as  a
  place for parking for handicapped persons pursuant to such section.
    (d)  The  provisions of this title shall apply upon roadways, streets,
  and highways located within  the  boundaries  of  any  federal  military
  installations   over   which  the  federal  government  has  proprietary
  jurisdiction if written request  therefor  is  made  by  the  commanding
  officer  of such installation of the chief executive officer or officers
  of the political subdivision or subdivisions in which such  installation
  is located and if the commanding officer of such installation shall post
  at  the  gates  of  such  installation  a notice informing all motorists
  entering such installation of such enforcement.