New Rochelle, NY Public Conduct: Jaywalking (2026)

Section 312-25, last amended February 18, 2025 by Ordinance No. 2025-20, builds a full pedestrian-and-driver crossing framework, and Subsection D is the part enforcement uses against jaywalking. It flips the usual right-of-way rule for anyone who leaves the crosswalk system: subsection D(1) says a pedestrian crossing a roadway other than within a marked or unmarked crosswalk must yield to all vehicles on the roadway, the opposite of the driver-yields-to-pedestrian rule that applies inside a crosswalk under subsections A and C. Subsection D(2) separately bars entering or crossing a roadway anywhere signs, fences, barriers, or other devices have been put up to prohibit or restrict crossing or entry, which covers medians and construction barricades as well as posted no-crossing signs.

Subsection D(3) closes the loophole at intersections specifically: a pedestrian may not cross a roadway at an intersection except within a marked or unmarked crosswalk, even where midblock crossing elsewhere in the street might otherwise be tolerated. None of this relieves a driver of care: subsection E still requires every driver to exercise due care to avoid colliding with a pedestrian regardless of where or how that pedestrian is crossing. The rule sits within Chapter 312's Article I, General Provisions, alongside the WALK/DON'T WALK signal rules in subsection A and the blind-pedestrian right-of-way protections in subsection H.