Bill Text: NY S02318 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Includes emergency vehicles displaying certain flashing light color combinations in provisions of law that require operators of vehicles to exercise due care when approaching.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-07-31 - SIGNED CHAP.248 [S02318 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S02318-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   January 15, 2013
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  DeFRANCISCO -- 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  the  opera-
         tion  of  vehicles  when  approaching  a  parked,  stopped or standing
         authorized emergency vehicle
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1. Subdivision (a) of section 1144-a of the vehicle and traf-
    2  fic law, as amended by chapter 458 of the laws of 2011,  is  amended  to
    3  read as follows:
    4    (a) Every operator of a motor vehicle shall exercise due care to avoid
    5  colliding  with an authorized emergency vehicle which is parked, stopped
    6  or standing on the shoulder or any portion  of  such  highway  and  such
    7  authorized  emergency vehicle is displaying one or more red, BLUE, WHITE
    8  OR AMBER or ANY combination OF red [and], BLUE, white  OR  AMBER  lights
    9  pursuant  to the provisions of paragraph two of subdivision forty-one of
   10  section three hundred seventy-five of this  chapter.  For  operators  of
   11  motor  vehicles on parkways or controlled access highways, such due care
   12  shall include, but not be limited to, moving from a lane which  contains
   13  or  is  immediately adjacent to the shoulder where such authorized emer-
   14  gency vehicle displaying one or more red, BLUE, WHITE OR  AMBER  or  ANY
   15  combination  OF  red  [and], BLUE, white OR AMBER lights pursuant to the
   16  provisions of paragraph two of subdivision forty-one  of  section  three
   17  hundred  seventy-five  of this chapter is parked, stopped or standing to
   18  another lane, provided that such movement otherwise  complies  with  the
   19  requirements  of  this  chapter  including,  but  not  limited  to,  the
   20  provisions of sections eleven hundred  ten  of  this  title  and  eleven
   21  hundred twenty-eight of this title.
   22    S 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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