S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 22, 2009
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       Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  SCHROEDER  --  read once and referred to the
         Committee on Transportation
       AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to the  use  of
         hazard lights when traveling at certain speeds
         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 1163 of the vehicle and  traffic
    2  law,  as added by chapter 388 of the laws of 1970, is amended to read as
    3  follows:
    4    (e) The driver of a  vehicle  equipped  with  simultaneously  flashing
    5  signals  as  provided  for  in  subdivision  eighteen-a of section three
    6  hundred seventy-five OF THIS CHAPTER shall use such signals when (I) the
    7  vehicle is stopped or disabled on a public  highway,  except  when  such
    8  vehicle  is  stopped in compliance with a traffic-control device or when
    9  legally parked; OR (II) WHEN THE DRIVER IS OPERATING THE  VEHICLE  AT  A
   10  SPEED  SLOWER  THAN  OR EQUAL TO FIFTEEN MILES PER HOUR BELOW THE POSTED
   11  MAXIMUM SPEED LIMIT.  The driver of a vehicle so equipped may  use  such
   12  signals  whenever  necessary to warn the operators of following vehicles
   13  of the presence of a traffic hazard ahead of the signaling  vehicle,  or
   14  to  warn  the operators of other vehicles that the signaling vehicle may
   15  itself constitute a traffic hazard,  taking  into  account  traffic  and
   16  highway  conditions.  No  person  shall  use  such signals for any other
   17  purpose.
   18    S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
   19  it shall have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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