Bill Text: NY S04350 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the color and visibility of signage on school buses; authorizes the commissioner of motor vehicles to promulgate any necessary rules and regulations.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S04350 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S04350-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4350
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 10, 2017
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        Introduced by Sen. MARCHIONE -- 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 color
          and visibility of signs on school buses
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subparagraph 1 of paragraph (b) and paragraph (c) of subdi-
     2  vision  20 of section 375 of the vehicle and traffic law, subparagraph 1
     3  of paragraph (b) as amended by chapter 242 of the laws of 1992 and para-
     4  graph (c) as amended by chapter 96 of the laws of 1973, are  amended  to
     5  read as follows:
     6    (1) In addition to such signal lamps, two signs shall be conspicuously
     7  displayed  on  the  exterior  of  every such omnibus designating it as a
     8  school omnibus by the use of the  words  "SCHOOL  BUS"  which  shall  be
     9  painted  or  otherwise  inscribed  thereon  in [black letters] lettering
    10  colored black or made in a reflective  material  approved  for  use  for
    11  omnibuses  by  the commissioner so long as said material is visible from
    12  at least five hundred feet distant.  Such letters shall  be  of  uniform
    13  size,  at  least  eight inches in height, and each stroke of each letter
    14  shall be not less than one inch in width.  The background of  each  such
    15  sign  shall  be  painted  or  otherwise  applied  in  the color known as
    16  "national school bus chrome." For each such  omnibus  having  a  seating
    17  capacity  in  excess  of  fifteen children, such signs shall be securely
    18  mounted on top of such vehicle, one of which shall  be  affixed  on  the
    19  front  and one on the rear thereof. For each such omnibus having a seat-
    20  ing capacity of not more than fifteen  children,  such  signs  shall  be
    21  securely  mounted  on  top  of such vehicle, one of which shall face the
    22  front and one of which shall face the rear thereof. Each such sign shall
    23  be visible and readable from a point at least two hundred feet distant.
    24    (c) In the event such vehicle is operated on a public  highway  during
    25  the  period  between one-half hour after sunset and one-half hour before
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09866-01-7
        S. 4350                             2
     1  sunrise, the signs required by paragraph (b) of this  subdivision  shall
     2  be [illuminated as to be visible from a point at least five hundred feet
     3  distant]  constructed  as  to be visible from at least five hundred feet
     4  distant,  either  by  illumination or by reflective material approved by
     5  the commissioner as authorized in subparagraph one of paragraph  (b)  of
     6  this subdivision.
     7    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
     8  have become a law. Effective  immediately,  the  commissioner  of  motor
     9  vehicles is authorized to promulgate any necessary rules and regulations
    10  for the implementation of this act.