Bill Text: NY S04118 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to expanding the direction when overtaking and passing a school bus; changes "either direction" to "any direction".

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S04118 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S04118-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4118
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 3, 2017
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  AKSHAR -- 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  expanding
          the direction when overtaking and passing a school bus
          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 1174 of the vehicle and  traffic
     2  law,  as  amended by chapter 597 of the laws of 1990, is amended to read
     3  as follows:
     4    (a) The driver of a vehicle upon a public highway, street  or  private
     5  road  upon  meeting or overtaking from [either] any direction any school
     6  bus marked and equipped as provided in  subdivision  twenty  of  section
     7  three  hundred  seventy-five  of  this  chapter which has stopped on the
     8  public highway, street or private road for the purpose of  receiving  or
     9  discharging any passengers, or which has stopped because a school bus in
    10  front  of  it  has stopped to receive or discharge any passengers, shall
    11  stop the vehicle before reaching such school bus when there is in opera-
    12  tion on said school bus a red visual signal as specified in  subdivision
    13  twenty  of  section  three hundred seventy-five of this chapter and said
    14  driver shall not proceed until such school bus resumes motion, or  until
    15  signaled  by the driver or a police officer to proceed. For the purposes
    16  of this section, and in  addition  to  the  provisions  of  section  one
    17  hundred  thirty-four  of  this  chapter, the term "public highway" shall
    18  mean any area used for the parking of motor vehicles or used as a drive-
    19  way located on the grounds of a school or  of  a  board  of  cooperative
    20  educational  services  facility or any area used as a means of access to
    21  and egress from such school or facility.
    22    § 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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