Bill Text: NY S00466 | 2019-2020 | 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 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S00466 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S00466-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           466
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 9, 2019
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        Introduced  by Sens. HOYLMAN, KRUEGER -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
        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    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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