Bill Text: NY S01932 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Encourages carpooling through preferential lane use; sets forth specifications for the types or classes of vehicles which may use such preferential lanes; establishes traffic infraction for unsafe use or improper entry into such lanes.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-01-14 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S01932 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-S01932-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   January 14, 2011
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  KRUGER -- 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  driving  in
         preferential use lanes
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. The vehicle and traffic law is  amended  by  adding  a  new
    2  section 132-b to read as follows:
    3    S  132-B.  PREFERENTIAL USE LANE. A LANE RESERVED FOR USE BY SPECIFIED
    4  TYPES OR CLASSES OF VEHICLES INCLUDING A LANE  RESERVED  FOR  USE  BASED
    5  UPON THE NUMBER OF OCCUPANTS IN SUCH VEHICLES.
    6    S  2. Section 1128 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding
    7  a new subdivision (e) to read as follows:
    8    (E) WHEN OFFICIAL MARKINGS DELINEATING A PREFERENTIAL USE LANE ARE  IN
    9  PLACE  AND  DESIGNATE  LOCATIONS  WHERE  CROSSING SUCH MARKINGS WOULD BE
   10  ESPECIALLY HAZARDOUS, NO DRIVER OF A VEHICLE PROCEEDING ALONG SUCH HIGH-
   11  WAY SHALL AT ANY TIME DRIVE ACROSS SUCH MARKINGS.
   12    S 3. The vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding  a  new  section
   13  1132 to read as follows:
   14    S  1132.  DRIVING IN PREFERENTIAL USE LANES. NO PERSON SHALL OPERATE A
   15  MOTOR VEHICLE IN A LANE OF A HIGHWAY, STREET OR ROADWAY WHICH  HAS  BEEN
   16  DESIGNATED AS A PREFERENTIAL USE LANE DURING THE TIME THE DESIGNATION IS
   17  IN EFFECT UNLESS SUCH MOTOR VEHICLE IS BEING OPERATED IN COMPLIANCE WITH
   18  THE TERMS OF THE AUTHORIZED DESIGNATED PREFERENTIAL USE.
   19    S 4. Subdivision (b) of section 1800 of the vehicle and traffic law is
   20  amended by adding two new paragraphs 3 and 4 to read as follows:
   21    3.  NOTWITHSTANDING  THE  PROVISIONS OF PARAGRAPH ONE OF THIS SUBDIVI-
   22  SION, A PERSON CONVICTED OF A TRAFFIC INFRACTION FOR A VIOLATION OF  THE
   23  PROVISIONS  OF  SECTION  ELEVEN HUNDRED THIRTY-TWO OF THIS CHAPTER SHALL
   24  FOR CONVICTION THEREOF, BE PUNISHED BY A FINE OF NOT MORE THAN  SEVENTY-
   25  FIVE  DOLLARS AND SUCH CONVICTION SHALL NOT BE DEEMED A CONVICTION AS AN
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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    1  OPERATOR AND SHALL NOT BE MADE PART  OF  THE  OPERATING  RECORD  OF  THE
    2  PERSON  UPON  WHOM  SUCH  LIABILITY  IS IMPOSED NOR SHALL IT BE USED FOR
    3  INSURANCE PURPOSES IN THE PROVISION OF MOTOR VEHICLE INSURANCE COVERAGE.
    4    4.  NOTWITHSTANDING  THE  PROVISIONS OF PARAGRAPH ONE OF THIS SUBDIVI-
    5  SION, A PERSON CONVICTED OF A TRAFFIC INFRACTION FOR A VIOLATION OF  THE
    6  PROVISIONS  OF SUBDIVISION (E) OF SECTION ELEVEN HUNDRED TWENTY-EIGHT OF
    7  THIS CHAPTER SHALL, FOR A FIRST CONVICTION THEREOF,  BE  PUNISHED  BY  A
    8  FINE  OF  NOT  LESS  THAN  ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS NOR MORE THAN TWO HUNDRED
    9  DOLLARS, FOR A CONVICTION OF A SECOND OR SUBSEQUENT  VIOLATION,  ALL  OF
   10  WHICH  WERE  COMMITTED  WITHIN  A PERIOD OF EIGHTEEN MONTHS, SUCH PERSON
   11  SHALL BE PUNISHED BY A FINE OF NOT LESS THAN  TWO  HUNDRED  DOLLARS  NOR
   12  MORE THAN THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS.
   13    S 5. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
   14  it shall have become a law.