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NEW YORK STATE HIGHWAY LAW.

CHAPTER 568 OF THE LAWS OF 1890.
(ORIGINALLY CHAPTER 704 OF THE LAWS OF 1887)

SECTION 162. Term "carriage" defined. -- The term "carriage," as used in this article, shall be construed to include stage-coaches, wagons, carts, sleighs, sleds and every other carriage or vehicle used for the transportation of persons and goods, or either of them, and bicycles, tricycles and all other vehicles, propelled by manumotive or pedomotive power.

SECT. 163. Entitled to free use of highways. -- The commissioners, trustees, or other authorities having charge or control of any highways, public street, park-way, drive-way or place, shall have no power or authority to pass, enforce or maintain any ordinance, rule or regulation, by which any person using a bicycle or tricycle, shall be excluded or prohibited from the free use of any highway, public street, avenue, road-way, drive-way, park-way or place, at any time when the same is open to the free use of persons having and using other pleasure carriages; but nothing herein shall [page 30] prevent the passage, enforcement or maintenance of any regulation, ordinance or rule, regulating the use of bicycles or tricycles in highways, public streets, drive-ways, park-ways and places, in such manner as to limit and determine the proper rate of speed with which such vehicles may be propelled, nor in such manner as to require, direct or prohibit the use of bells, lamps and other appurtenances nor to prohibit the use of any vehicle upon that part of the highway, street or park-way, commonly known as the footpath or sidewalk.

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