Bill Text: NY A08582 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires navigation systems which utilize GPS technology to provide the legal clearance of bridges or elevated structures along proposed routes.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-3)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-06-07 - REFERRED TO RULES [A08582 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A08582-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         8582--B

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 12, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced   by  M.  of  A.  SANTABARBARA,  CONRAD,  DAVILA,  LEVENBERG,
          LEMONDES, TAGUE, SILLITTI -- read once and referred to  the  Committee
          on  Consumer  Affairs  and  Protection  --  committee discharged, bill
          amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  commit-
          tee  --  reported  and  referred  to  the  Committee on Rules -- again
          reported from said committee with  amendments,  ordered  reprinted  as
          amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to requiring navi-
          gation  systems utilizing GPS technology to identify the height of any
          bridge or overpass along a proposed route

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

     1    Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
     2  390-f to read as follows:
     3    § 390-f. Global positioning system navigation. 1. No electronic map or
     4  navigation  system  which utilizes global positioning system (GPS) tech-
     5  nology to direct the driver of a motor vehicle to a  specified  destina-
     6  tion  along  a proposed route or routes shall be offered for use or sale
     7  in this state unless such map or navigation system  provides  the  legal
     8  clearance  of  each  bridge or elevated structure along a proposed route
     9  generated in response to a request or information provided  by  a  user.
    10  For  the purposes of this section, the term "legal clearance" shall have
    11  the same meaning as such term is used in title eight of the vehicle  and
    12  traffic  law  requiring  signs with such legal clearance to be posted at
    13  all bridges and elevated structures on highways under  the  jurisdiction
    14  of  the  department  of  transportation, other state authorities, county
    15  superintendents of highways, towns, cities and villages.
    16    2. No electronic map or navigation system shall  be  in  violation  of
    17  this  section,  provided  that  such electronic map or navigation system
    18  includes accurate and updated legal clearance information to the  great-
    19  est  extent  practicable  and  instruction,  through terms of service or
    20  elsewhere on the map or system, that the driver or user shall be respon-
    21  sible for such driver or  user's  vehicle  complying  with  all  vehicle
    22  height and weight restrictions or all laws of the road.
    23    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    24  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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