New York Laws
Article 48-C - Rules for Operation of All Terrain Vehicles
2406 - Equipment.

(a) brakes in good operating condition;
(b) a muffler system in good operating condition which meets federal
standards as established in 40 CFR (Code of Federal Regulations) Part
205.166, sub Part E;
(c) a spark arrester approved by the United States Forest Service;
(d) tires having at least two-thirty seconds of an inch of tread with
no visible breaks, cuts, exposed cords, bumps or bulges;
(e) a lighted white headlight approved by the commissioner and a
lighted red taillight approved by the commissioner when operated for
one-half hour after sunset to one-half hour before sunrise.
2. No person shall operate an ATV or ride as a passenger on an ATV
unless he is wearing a protective helmet of a type approved by the
commissioner pursuant to subdivision six of section three hundred
eighty-one of this chapter.
3. No person shall operate an ATV:
(a) on a highway with tires equipped with any studs other than
automotive studs;
(b) except as an authorized emergency ATV, police, or civil defense
ATV as an emergency vehicle, while displaying one or more lighted red or
a combination red or white lights which are revolving, rotating,
flashing, oscillating or constantly moving;
(c) as an authorized emergency ATV or civil defense ATV, as an
emergency vehicle unless it is equipped with one or more lighted, red or
combination red or white light or lights which is or are revolving,
rotating, flashing, oscillating or constantly moving and which has or
have minimum candle power of sufficient intensity to be plainly visible
from a distance of five hundred feet in all directions under normal
atmospheric conditions.