9 NYCRR Part 397 - Executive Department

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9 NYCRR 397.1 - Territorial scope

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NYCRR title agency: Executive Department
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The rules and regulations contained in this Subchapter shall be effective within the First Park Region only.

9 NYCRR 397.2 - Vehicle speed limits

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NYCRR title agency: Executive Department
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(a)A rate of speed in excess of 30 miles a hour, except where otherwise posted, on any park road or drive is prohibited and a rate of speed over 25 miles an hour in a parking field is prohibited except where otherwise posted.

(b)Where the rate of speed is reduced by signs posted by the office, a rate of speed greater than that indicated on such signs is prohibited.

9 NYCRR 397.3 - Use of parkways by recreational and commercial vehicles

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NYCRR title agency: Executive Department
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(a)The term parkway shall include the Robert Moses State Parkway, West River State Parkway and the South State Parkway.

(b)Except as provided in subdivisions (c) and (d) of this section, the use of parkways is restricted to vehicles registered as passenger vehicles by the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles, excluding, however, such vehicles when adapted to or used for the carrying of commercial goods or materials. Recreational vehicles, including but not limited to motor homes, self-propelled campers, travel trailers and recreational equipment are permitted on parkways under the jurisdiction of the office the First Park Region.

(c)The use of all commercial, industrial and farm vehicles on parkways under the jurisdiction of the office in the First Park Region is prohibited, except that any vehicle with a commercial license plate equipped with recreational equipment and buses will be permitted on a parkway, providing the immediate destination is a park facility under the jurisdiction of the office, and also except where the office determines an immediate emergency exists and it is in the best interests of the public to temporarily use such parkway until the emergency subsides.

(d)Nothing contained in this section shall apply to the trucks and apparatus of a fire department, police department or ambulance, or to emergency repair wagons, when reporting for emergency work in case of fire, accident, public disaster or impending danger or emergency on the parkways or in the parks. Licensed ambulances for sick or injured persons shall be permitted to operate over parkways when on emergency service, but subject to all the provisions of the section regulating traffic and including limitations on the rate of speed.

(e)The following are prohibited from using the parkways: pedestrians, bicycles, motorized bicycles including safety-cycles, whizzer bikes and similar types of vehicles; scooters, motorettes and other similar small power-propelled vehicles of two or three wheels, and any vehicle having two or three wheels any one of which has an overall diameter of less than 15 inches, excluding the tire.

9 NYCRR 397.4 - Earlier source heading: [Repealed]

Related State Register notice: Adopted rule PKR-04-16-00001-A. Published May 11, 2016. Notice effective date: May 11, 2016.

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NYCRR title agency: Executive Department
Section status: Section source receipt
Source version current through: Sep 15, 2021
Related Register notice: PKR-04-16-00001-A · Adopted rule
Related notice published: May 11, 2016
Related notice effective date: May 11, 2016

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9 NYCRR 397.5 - Fishing

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NYCRR title agency: Executive Department
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Source version current through: Sep 15, 2021

Fishing is prohibited in all bathing areas, boat basins, boat channels, streams, ponds or lakes or from any bridge, pier, dock, bulkhead, or other structure along the edge of or extending into or over any waters under the jurisdiction of the office except during such times and in such areas as may be plainly designated therefor by signs. Fishing shall be permitted by angling and trolling only, or in the case of shellfish, by devices or instruments operated solely by hand power. No device operated by machinery, or by power, or with the aid of power other than hand power, shall be used in taking fish of any kind from waters under the jurisdiction of the office. Fish shall not be taken contrary to law or any order of the Department of Environmental Conservation.