(a) No person may perform any act which interferes with or may tend to interfere with the provision of transit service, obstructs or may tend to obstruct the flow of traffic on facilities or conveyances, or interferes with or may tend to interfere with the safe and efficient operation of the facilities or conveyances of the authority.

(b) No person, unless duly authorized by the authority shall engage in any commercial activity upon any facility or conveyance. Commercial activities include:

(c) Except as expressly and permitted in this subdivision, no person shall engage in any nontransit uses upon any facility or conveyance. Nontransit uses are noncommercial activities that are not directly related to the use of a facility or conveyance for transportation, and include remaining in the paid fare zone of a particular subway station for more than one hour. The following nontransit uses are permitted by the authority, provided they do not impede transit activities and they are conducted in accordance with these rules: public speaking; campaigning; leafletting or distribution of written noncommercial materials; activities intended to encourage and facilitate voter registration; artistic performances, including the acceptance of donations; solicitation for religious or political causes; solicitation for charities that: (1) have been licensed for any public solicitation within the preceding 12 months by the Commissioner of Social Services of the City of New York under section 21-111 of the Administrative Code of the City of New York or any successor provision; (2) are duly registered as charitable organizations with the Attorney General of New York under section 172 of the New York Executive Law or any successor provision; or (3) are exempt from Federal income tax under section 501(c)(3) of the United States Internal Revenue Code or any successor provision. Solicitors for such charities shall provide, upon request, evidence that such charity meets one of the preceding qualifications.

(d) All persons on or in any facility or conveyance of the authority shall:

(e) No persons shall refuse or fail to relinquish a seat on a conveyance which has been designated as "PRIORITY SEATING," "WHEELCHAIR PRIORITY SEATING" or words of similar import, if requested to do so by or on behalf of a person with a disability, or occupying any location on a conveyance designated for use by persons using wheelchairs if such location is required to accommodate a person using a wheelchair. Further, passengers aboard buses equipped with wheelchair lift devices shall not conduct themselves in a manner which will impede the operation of such lifts, impede the securing of wheelchairs in the tie-down devices located on such buses or impede the exit of such passengers using wheelchairs.

(f) No person shall bring or carry onto a conveyance any liquid in an open container.

(g) No person shall falsely represent themselves as an agent, employee or representative of the authority or the MTA or falsely represent themselves as a police officer.

(h) During a disaster emergency relating to public health declared by the Governor of the State of New York, no person who is on a subway car shall remain on such car, train, or in the station after the subway car has entered a terminal station and the authority has announced that the train is being taken out of service and instructed passengers to leave the train.