Bill Text: NY S00426 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Includes vehicles operated by sanitation workers in the definition of "hazard vehicle".

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2016-08-31 - SIGNED CHAP.293 [S00426 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S00426-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         426--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 7, 2015
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by Sens. MARCELLINO, AKSHAR -- read twice and ordered print-
          ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Transporta-
          tion  --  recommitted to the Committee on Transportation in accordance
          with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN  ACT  to  amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to including
          vehicles operated by sanitation workers in the definition  of  "hazard
          vehicle"  and  to  including  hazard  vehicles  within  certain  speed
          restrictions
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 117-a of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by
     2  chapter 154 of the laws of 1992, is amended to read as follows:
     3    § 117-a. Hazard  vehicle.   Every vehicle owned and operated or leased
     4  by a utility, whether public or private, used in the construction, main-
     5  tenance and repair of its facilities, every vehicle  specially  equipped
     6  or  designed for the towing or pushing of disabled vehicles, every vehi-
     7  cle engaged in highway maintenance, or in ice  and  snow  removal  where
     8  such operation involves the use of a public highway, every vehicle oper-
     9  ated  by  a  sanitation or recycling worker in the performance of his or
    10  her official duties and vehicles driven by rural letter  carriers  while
    11  in the performance of [their] his or her official duties.
    12    §  2.  Subdivision (e) of section 1180 of the vehicle and traffic law,
    13  as amended by chapter 465 of the laws of 2010, is  amended  to  read  as
    14  follows:
    15    (e)  The  driver  of every vehicle shall, consistent with the require-
    16  ments of subdivision (a)  of  this  section,  drive  at  an  appropriate
    17  reduced  speed  when approaching and crossing an intersection or railway
    18  grade  crossing,  when  approaching  and  going  around  a  curve,  when
    19  approaching  a  hill crest, when approaching and passing by an emergency
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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