Bill Text: NY A06952 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the use of hazard lights when traveling at a speed slower than or equal to 15 mph below the speed limit.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to transportation [A06952 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A06952-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6952

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       May 9, 2023
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        Introduced  by M. of A. BRONSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee 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    § 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.
                                                                   LBD10972-01-3