Bill Text: NY A02708 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Permits certain funeral service vehicles and other vehicles to use high occupancy vehicle lanes.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to transportation [A02708 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A02708-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2708

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 26, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. HYNDMAN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Transportation

        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation  to  permitting
          certain  funeral service vehicles and other vehicles to use high occu-
          pancy vehicle lanes

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

     1    Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as "Nina's Law".
     2    §  2.  The  vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a new section
     3  1106 to read as follows:
     4    § 1106. Funeral motorcades  and  funeral  service  vehicles.  For  the
     5  purposes of this title:
     6    (a)  a person may disregard an official traffic-control device govern-
     7  ing the number of occupants required to be in a vehicle for such vehicle
     8  to be in the designated lane when such person is operating a vehicle  as
     9  part  of  a  funeral  motorcade  going  to  or returning from a house of
    10  worship, funeral home, crematorium, or cemetery.
    11    (b) a person may disregard an official traffic-control device  govern-
    12  ing the number of occupants required to be in a vehicle for such vehicle
    13  to  be  in  the  designated lane when such person is operating a funeral
    14  service vehicle in such person's capacity as an  agent  of  a  house  of
    15  worship, funeral home, crematorium, or cemetery.
    16    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07023-01-3