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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