2022 New York Laws
VAT - Vehicle and Traffic
Title 7 - Rules of the Road
Article 25 - Driving on Right Side of Roadway, Overtaking and Passing, Etc.
1123 - When Overtaking on the Right Is Permitted.

Universal Citation:
NY Veh & Traf L § 1123 (2022)
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§ 1123. When overtaking on the right is permitted. (a) The driver of a
vehicle  may  overtake  and  pass upon the right of another vehicle only
under the following conditions:
  1. When the vehicle overtaken is making or about to make a left turn;
  2. Upon a street or highway with unobstructed pavement not occupied by
parked vehicles of sufficient width for two  or  more  lines  of  moving
vehicles in each direction;
  3.  Upon  a  one-way  street,  or upon any roadway on which traffic is
restricted to one direction of movement, where the roadway is free  from
obstructions  and  of  sufficient  width for two or more lines of moving
vehicles.

(b) The driver of a vehicle may overtake and pass another vehicle upon the right only under conditions permitting such movement in safety. Such movement shall not be made by driving off the pavement or main-traveled portion of the roadway, except as permitted by section eleven hundred thirty-one of this article.

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