Bill Text: NY S00053 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that in a city of one million or more flashing purple lights may be affixed to and displayed on buses operated on a bus rapid transit route.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-06-17 - RECOMMITTED TO RULES [S00053 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S00053-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          53
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 7, 2015
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       Introduced  by Sens. HOYLMAN, KRUEGER, PERKINS -- read twice and ordered
         printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Trans-
         portation
       AN  ACT  to  amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to providing
         that in a city of one million or more flashing purple  lights  may  be
         affixed  to  and  displayed  on  buses operated on a bus rapid transit
         route
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Subdivision  41 of section 375 of the vehicle and traffic
    2  law is amended by adding a new paragraph 1-a to read as follows:
    3    1-A. IN A CITY WITH A POPULATION OF  ONE  MILLION  OR  MORE,  FLASHING
    4  PURPLE LIGHTS MAY BE AFFIXED TO AND DISPLAYED ON BUSES OPERATED ON A BUS
    5  RAPID TRANSIT ROUTE. SUCH FLASHING PURPLE LIGHTS MAY BE USED EXCLUSIVELY
    6  BY  A BUS DRIVER AUTHORIZED BY THE APPLICABLE MASS TRANSIT AGENCY ON ANY
    7  BUS RAPID TRANSIT ROUTE, PROVIDED THAT FLASHING PURPLE LIGHTS MAY NOT BE
    8  UTILIZED ON ANY BUS OPERATING ON A BUS RAPID TRANSIT ROUTE WHERE THE BUS
    9  FARE IS PAID UPON BOARDING. FOR THE PURPOSES  OF  THIS  PARAGRAPH,  "BUS
   10  RAPID  TRANSIT ROUTE" SHALL INCLUDE ROUTES DESIGNATED AS SUCH BY THE NEW
   11  YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND THE APPLICABLE  MASS  TRANSIT
   12  AGENCY,  INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THOSE ROUTES SPECIFIED IN SECTION
   13  ELEVEN HUNDRED ELEVEN-C OF THIS CHAPTER.
   14    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD01561-01-5