Bill Text: NY S01724 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to operators of a vehicle overtaking a bicycle or pedestrian outside the city of New York.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-1)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S01724 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1724

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 13, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. HARCKHAM -- 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 operators of
          a vehicle overtaking a bicycle from behind

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

     1    Section  1. Section 1122-a of the vehicle and traffic law, as added by
     2  chapter 413 of the laws of 2010, is amended to read as follows:
     3    § 1122-a. Overtaking a bicycle. [The] For cities having  a  population
     4  of less than one million and towns and villages, the operator of a vehi-
     5  cle  overtaking, from behind, a bicycle proceeding on the same side of a
     6  roadway shall pass to the left of such bicycle at a [safe]  distance  of
     7  not less than three feet until safely clear thereof.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
     9  it shall have become a law.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04965-01-3