Bill Text: NY S04547 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires a holder of a class DJ or class MJ learner's permit, while operating a vehicle, to display a sign indicating that such vehicle is being driven by a new driver; further authorizes the commissioner to create the form and distribution for such sign upon the issuance of the learner's permit.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S04547 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S04547-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4547
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 17, 2017
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  SEWARD -- 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 signage  for
          persons driving under a learner's permit
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 501-b of the vehicle  and  traffic
     2  law, as added by chapter 644 of the laws of 2002, paragraphs (c) and (d)
     3  as  amended  by  chapter  403 of the laws of 2009, is amended to read as
     4  follows:
     5    1. In addition to the restrictions contained in  subdivision  five  of
     6  section  five  hundred  one  of this article, no holder of a class DJ or
     7  class MJ learner's permit shall:
     8    (a) operate a motor vehicle with any front seat occupants  other  than
     9  the supervising driver;
    10    (b)  operate  a motor vehicle unless every occupant of such vehicle is
    11  properly restrained by a safety belt or child safety seat in  accordance
    12  with  the  provisions  of  subdivision three-a of section twelve hundred
    13  twenty-nine-c of this chapter;
    14    (c) operate a motor vehicle with more than one passenger who is  under
    15  the age of twenty-one and who is not a member of such holder's immediate
    16  family,  provided,  however, that the provisions of this paragraph shall
    17  not apply when such holder is accompanied by  a  duly  licensed  parent,
    18  guardian, person in a position of loco parentis, driver education teach-
    19  er or driving school instructor;
    20    (d)  be eligible for issuance of a class DJ, MJ, D or M license unless
    21  such permit has been valid for at least six months. Any time  period  in
    22  which such class DJ or MJ learner's permit has been suspended or revoked
    23  shall  not  be  counted  in  determining  the  length  of time that such
    24  learner's permit has been valid; or
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10018-01-7
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     1    (e) operate a motor vehicle without a sign, visible to  both  oncoming
     2  and following traffic, indicating that such vehicle is being driven by a
     3  driver  with  a  learner's  permit.  Such sign shall be in such form and
     4  distributed in such manner as provided by the commissioner upon issuance
     5  of such learner's permit.
     6    §  2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
     7  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.