New York State Law
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Consolidated Laws of New York's VTL code
Article 49 - NY Vehicle and Traffic Law
EFFECT OF AND SHORT TITLE OF CHAPTER
| Section | Description |
|---|---|
| 3000 | Uniformity of interpretation. |
| 3001 | Short title. |
| 3002 | Local laws, ordinances, orders, rules, regulations, administrative code provisions and sanitary and health code provisions continued. |
| 3003 | Reference to existing laws. |
| 3004 | Constitutionality. |
S 3000. Uniformity of interpretation. Titles one, seven and succeeding titles shall be so interpreted and construed as to effectuate their general purpose to make uniform the law of those states which enact them. S 3001. Short title. This chapter shall be known as the vehicle and traffic law. S 3002. Local laws, ordinances, orders, rules, regulations, administrative code provisions and sanitary and health code provisions continued. (a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (c) of this section, local laws, ordinances, orders, rules, regulations, administrative code provisions and sanitary and health code provisions existing on the effective date of this section, shall, to the extent that they do not conflict with the provisions of this chapter, be given the following effect: 1. Orders of the department of transportation prohibiting or restricting stopping, standing or parking of vehicles and local laws, ordinances, orders, rules and regulations adopted by local authorities prohibiting or restricting stopping, standing or parking of vehicles shall henceforth be construed to prohibit or restrict stopping, standing or parking as defined in this chapter. 2. All other orders of the department of transportation affecting traffic and all other local laws, ordinances, orders, rules, regulations, administrative code provisions and sanitary and health code provisions affecting traffic shall henceforth be construed as if they had been adopted pursuant to this chapter. (b) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (c) of this section, the local laws, ordinances, orders, rules, regulations, administrative code provisions and sanitary and health code provisions referred to in this section shall be deemed severable so that they shall be null and void only to the extent and only at the locations that they conflict with provisions of this chapter. (c) Any local law, ordinance, order, rule, regulation, administrative code provision or sanitary or health code provision which was in existence on the effective date of this section, and which conflicts with the provisions of this chapter, shall nevertheless continue in effect and be construed as if adopted pursuant to this chapter, in any case where the same would validly supersede the provisions of this chapter if it were adopted after the effective date of this section, pursuant to any provision of sections sixteen hundred thirty, sixteen hundred thirty-one or sixteen hundred forty-two. S 3003. Reference to existing laws. The reference by any law, general or special or by any local law, ordinance, order, rule, regulation, administrative code provision or sanitary or health code provision to any section of this chapter or of the highway law, penal law or insurance law as in force immediately prior to the time this act shall take effect, shall be deemed to be construed as a reference to the corresponding provision or provisions of such law, as renumbered, modified or amended by this chapter, irrespective of whether such provision or provisions is or are contained in one or more than one title, article, section, subdivision or other part thereof. S 3004. Constitutionality. If any part or parts of this chapter shall be held to be unconstitutional, such unconstitutionality shall not affect the validity of the remaining parts of this chapter. The legislature hereby declares that it would have passed the remaining parts of this chapter if it had known that such part or parts thereof would be declared unconstitutional. Top of Page
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