Bill Text: NY S06666 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 6666 (Prior Session Legislation)

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
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                    IN SENATE
                                    February 3, 2016
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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, 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.
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