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                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 8, 2014
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  MARCELLINO  -- read twice and ordered printed, and
         when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
       AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in  relation  to  including
         vehicles  operated  by sanitation workers in the definition of "hazard
         vehicle"
         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    S 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    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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