Bill Text: NY A10706 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires operators of motor vehicles to reduce their speed when approaching and passing mobile ice cream vendor vehicles when such vendor vehicle is parked and in active operation.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-08-28 - referred to transportation [A10706 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A10706-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10706

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     August 28, 2024
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        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Santabar-
          bara) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation

        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in  relation  to  requiring
          operators  of motor vehicles to reduce speed when passing an ice cream
          truck

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1. Subdivision (e) of section 1180 of the vehicle and traffic
     2  law, as amended by chapter 293 of the laws of 2016, is amended  to  read
     3  as follows:
     4    (e)  The  driver  of every vehicle shall, consistent with the require-
     5  ments of subdivision (a)  of  this  section,  drive  at  an  appropriate
     6  reduced  speed  when approaching and crossing an intersection or railway
     7  grade  crossing,  when  approaching  and  going  around  a  curve,  when
     8  approaching  a  hill crest, when approaching and passing by an emergency
     9  situation involving any authorized emergency vehicle  which  is  parked,
    10  stopped or standing on a highway and which is displaying one or more red
    11  or combination red, white, and/or blue lights pursuant to the provisions
    12  of  paragraph  two  and  subparagraph b of paragraph four of subdivision
    13  forty-one of section three hundred seventy-five of  this  chapter,  when
    14  traveling upon any narrow or winding roadway, when approaching and pass-
    15  ing  by  a  mobile  ice  cream vendor vehicle that is parked, stopped or
    16  standing on the shoulder or on any portion of the  roadway  during  such
    17  vehicle's  hours  of  operation, and when any special hazard exists with
    18  respect to pedestrians, or other traffic by reason of weather or highway
    19  conditions, including, but not limited  to  a  highway  construction  or
    20  maintenance  work  area,  or  when approaching a hazard vehicle which is
    21  parked, stopped or standing on the shoulder or on any  portion  of  such
    22  highway  and  such hazard vehicle is displaying one or more amber lights
    23  pursuant to the provisions of paragraph three of  subdivision  forty-one
    24  of section three hundred seventy-five of this chapter.
    25    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15994-01-4