Bill Text: NY S06666 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Enacts the "crash zone safety act"; establishes a speed limit which is 20 miles per hour less than the posted speed limit at and near the scene of an emergency; establishes enhanced penalties and surcharges for violations thereof; requires the establishment of a public and driver education program relating to such provisions; establishes criminal penalties and civil liability for property damage, personal injury or death arising from operation of a motor vehicle in violation of such speed limit; establishes the emergency zone safety education fund.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-05-04 - REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE [S06666 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S06666-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6666 IN SENATE February 3, 2016 ___________ 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, the penal law and the state finance law, in relation to enacting the "crash zone safety act" The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as 2 the "crash zone safety act". 3 § 2. The vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a new section 4 114-e to read as follows: 5 § 114-e. Emergency zone. That distance along a highway extending five 6 hundred feet of longitudinal distance with the flow of traffic and visi- 7 bility from the rear of an authorized emergency vehicle, hazard vehicle 8 or volunteer first responder which is parked, stopped or standing on the 9 shoulder or any portion of such highway while such vehicle operated in 10 the course of responding to an emergency and while such vehicle is 11 displaying one or more red or combination red and white lights pursuant 12 to the provisions of paragraph two and subparagraph b of paragraph four 13 of subdivision forty-one of section three hundred seventy-five of this 14 chapter, or one or more amber lights pursuant to paragraph three of 15 subdivision forty-one of section three hundred seventy-five of this 16 chapter, or a blue light pursuant to subparagraph a of paragraph four of 17 subdivision forty-one of section three hundred seventy-five of this 18 chapter, or a green light pursuant to paragraph five of subdivision 19 forty-one of section three hundred seventy-five of this chapter, to a 20 point five hundred feet past any such vehicle, or five hundred feet past 21 an emergency zone sign to a point five hundred feet past any such vehi- 22 cle, whichever shall be a greater distance. 23 § 3. The vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a new section 24 224-b to read as follows: 25 § 224-b. Establishment of the emergency zone education program. The 26 commissioner of transportation, after consultation with the commission- 27 er, shall promulgate rules and regulations regarding the establishment 28 and implementation of an emergency zone education program. The emergen- EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD13575-01-6