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What is NY VTL § 1211?

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(b) The driver of a vehicle shall not back the same upon any shoulder or roadway of any controlled-access highway. (c) the driver of a motor vehicle engaged in retail sales of frozen desserts as that term is defined in subdivision thirty-seven of section three hundred seventy-five of this chapter directly to pedestrian

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§ 1211 Limitations on backing

VTL § 1211

(a)The driver of a vehicle shall not back the same unless such movement can be made with safety and without interfering with other traffic.

(b)The driver of a vehicle shall not back the same upon any shoulder or roadway of any controlled-access highway.

(c)the driver of a motor vehicle engaged in retail sales of frozen desserts as that term is defined in subdivision thirty-seven of section three hundred seventy-five of this chapter directly to pedestrians shall not back the same to make or attempt to make a sale.

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