Bill Text: NY A06148 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 6148 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relates to the presence of official full or partial lane markings on roadways.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2015-05-04 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [A06148 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A06148-Introduced.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         6148
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                    March 16, 2015
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       Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ROBERTS,  OTIS, BENEDETTO, ABINANTI, RIVERA,
         CLARK, HOOPER, COOK -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.  GLICK,  HEVESI,
         MAGEE, PEOPLES-STOKES, SKARTADOS, SOLAGES -- read once and referred to
         the Committee on Transportation
       AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to roadway lane
         markings
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subdivision (d) of section 1128 of the vehicle and  traffic
    2  law,  as added by chapter 206 of the laws of 1971, is amended to read as
    3  follows:
    4    (d) When official markings are in place indicating those  portions  of
    5  any  roadway where crossing such markings would be especially hazardous,
    6  no driver of a vehicle proceeding along such highway shall at  any  time
    7  drive across such markings.  FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SUBDIVISION, "OFFICIAL
    8  MARKINGS"  SHALL  MEAN  LANE  LINE MARKINGS CONSISTING OF A SOLID DOUBLE
    9  WHITE LINE USED TO INDICATE WHERE  SPECIFIC  LANE  CHANGING  IS  LEGALLY
   10  PROHIBITED  FOR A PARTICULAR SECTION OF ROADWAY BY OFFICIAL ORDER, ORDI-
   11  NANCE, RULE OR REGULATION, IN CONFORMANCE WITH THE NEW YORK STATE MANUAL
   12  AND SPECIFICATIONS FOR A  UNIFORM  SYSTEM  OF  TRAFFIC  CONTROL  DEVICES
   13  ADOPTED  BY  THE  COMMISSIONER  OF  TRANSPORTATION  PURSUANT  TO SECTION
   14  SIXTEEN HUNDRED EIGHTY OF THIS CHAPTER.
   15    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD06757-01-5