Section 1236. Lamps and other equipment on bicycles

* (a) Every bicycle
  when in use during  the  period  from  one-half  hour  after  sunset  to
  one-half  hour before sunrise shall be equipped with a lamp on the front
  which shall emit a white light visible during hours of darkness  from  a
  distance of at least five hundred feet to the front and with a red light
  visible  to  the  rear  for  three  hundred  feet. Effective July first,
  nineteen hundred seventy-six, at least one  of  these  lights  shall  be
  visible for two hundred feet from each side.
    * NB Effective until November 1, 2009
    * (a)  Every  bicycle when in use during the period from one-half hour
  after sunset to one-half hour before sunrise shall be  equipped  with  a
  lamp on the front which shall emit a white light visible during hours of
  darkness  from a distance of at least five hundred feet to the front and
  with a red or amber light visible to the rear for  three  hundred  feet.
  Effective  July  first,  nineteen  hundred  seventy-six, at least one of
  these lights shall be visible for two hundred feet from each side.
    * NB Effective November 1, 2009
    (b) No person shall operate a bicycle unless it  is  equipped  with  a
  bell  or  other device capable of giving a signal audible for a distance
  of at least one hundred  feet,  except  that  a  bicycle  shall  not  be
  equipped  with  nor  shall  any  person  use upon a bicycle any siren or
  whistle.
    (c) Every bicycle shall be equipped with a brake which will enable the
  operator to make the braked wheels skid on dry, level, clean pavement.
    (d) Every new bicycle shall be  equipped  with  reflective  tires  or,
  alternately,  a  reflex  reflector  mounted on the spokes of each wheel,
  said tires and reflectors to be of types approved by  the  commissioner.
  The  reflex  reflector  mounted on the front wheel shall be colorless or
  amber, and the reflex reflector mounted  on  the  rear  wheel  shall  be
  colorless or red.
    (e)  Every  bicycle  when  in use during the period from one-half hour
  after sunset to one-half hour before  sunrise  shall  be  equipped  with
  reflective  devices  or  material  meeting  the standards established by
  rules  and  regulations  promulgated  by  the  commissioner;   provided,
  however, that such standards shall not be inconsistent with or otherwise
  conflict  with  the  requirements  of  subdivisions  (a) and (d) of this
  section.