N.Y. Vehicle & Traffic Law Section 1181
Minimum speed regulations

(a)

No person shall drive a motor vehicle at such a slow speed as to impede the normal and reasonable movement of traffic except when reduced speed is necessary for safe operation or in compliance with law.

(b)

Whenever a minimum speed limit has been established as authorized in sections sixteen hundred twenty or sixteen hundred forty-two, no person shall drive at a speed less than such minimum speed limit except when entering upon or preparing to exit from the highway upon which such a minimum speed limit has been established, when preparing to stop, or when necessary for safe operation or in compliance with law.

Source: Section 1181 — Minimum speed regulations, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/VAT/1181 (updated Sep. 22, 2014; accessed Jan. 18, 2025).

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