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Compiled text through Sep 15, 2021Register checked through July 29, 2026/Vol. XLVIII, Issue 30 (2026-07-29)

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9 NYCRR 397.1 - Territorial scope

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Compiling agency: Executive Department
Text status: Source receipt
Compiled text through: Sep 15, 2021
Register checked through: July 29, 2026/Vol. XLVIII, Issue 30 (2026-07-29)
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Source snapshot: Jun 6, 2026

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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Compiling agency: Executive Department
Text status: Source receipt
Compiled text through: Sep 15, 2021
Register checked through: July 29, 2026/Vol. XLVIII, Issue 30 (2026-07-29)
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Source snapshot: Jun 6, 2026

(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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Compiling agency: Executive Department
Text status: Source receipt
Compiled text through: Sep 15, 2021
Register checked through: July 29, 2026/Vol. XLVIII, Issue 30 (2026-07-29)
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Source snapshot: Jun 6, 2026

(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 - [Repealed]

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Compiling agency: Executive Department
Text status: Source-only entry
Compiled text through: Sep 15, 2021
Register checked through: July 29, 2026/Vol. XLVIII, Issue 30 (2026-07-29)
Activity status: No later Register activity identified in this check.
Source snapshot: Jun 6, 2026

9 NYCRR 397.5 - Fishing

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Compiling agency: Executive Department
Text status: Source receipt
Compiled text through: Sep 15, 2021
Register checked through: July 29, 2026/Vol. XLVIII, Issue 30 (2026-07-29)
Activity status: No later Register activity identified in this check.
Source snapshot: Jun 6, 2026

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.

9 NYCRR 397.6 - [Repealed]

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The compiled source records this section as repealed. We hold the witnessed tombstone record; see the source for details.

Dates and status

Compiling agency: Executive Department
Text status: Source-only entry
Compiled text through: Sep 15, 2021
Register checked through: July 29, 2026/Vol. XLVIII, Issue 30 (2026-07-29)
Activity status: No later Register activity identified in this check.
Latest notice: PKR-48-18-00006-A · Adopted rule · Mar 6, 2019
Source snapshot: Jun 6, 2026

9 NYCRR 397.7 - [Repealed]

Repealed or removed in compiled source

The compiled source records this section as repealed. We hold the witnessed tombstone record; see the source for details.

Dates and status

Compiling agency: Executive Department
Text status: Source-only entry
Compiled text through: Sep 15, 2021
Register checked through: July 29, 2026/Vol. XLVIII, Issue 30 (2026-07-29)
Activity status: No later Register activity identified in this check.
Source snapshot: Jun 6, 2026

9 NYCRR 397.8 - 397.8 to 397.10 [Repealed]

Repealed or removed in compiled source

The compiled source records this section as repealed. We hold the witnessed tombstone record; see the source for details.

Dates and status

Compiling agency: Executive Department
Text status: Source-only entry
Compiled text through: Sep 15, 2021
Register checked through: July 29, 2026/Vol. XLVIII, Issue 30 (2026-07-29)
Activity status: No later Register activity identified in this check.
Source snapshot: Jun 6, 2026

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