City of Buffalo, NY Article II Right-of-Way of Police and Fire Vehicles

[Derived from Sec. 20 of Ch. IX of the Charter and Ordinances, 1974]

§ 345-4 Action of other vehicles upon approach of police or fire vehicles.

On the approach of any vehicle or apparatus of the Fire Department or the Police Department answering to an emergency call and sounding a siren, horn or bell, the driver of any vehicle, other than a vehicle of the aforesaid Departments or an ambulance of any hospital on an emergency call, shall immediately drive as close as possible to the right-hand curb and stop and shall not follow after said vehicle or apparatus until the same shall be at least 300 feet away.

§ 345-5 Distance required from stopped police or fire vehicles.

No vehicle, except by direction of the Commissioner of Fire or the Commissioner of Police, shall approach or park within 600 feet of any fire apparatus or vehicle responding to an emergency call after said apparatus or vehicle shall have come to a stop.