Assembly Bill A1886

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Includes vehicles operated by sanitation workers in the definition of hazard vehicle

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2015-A1886 (ACTIVE) - Details

Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §117-a, V & T L
Versions Introduced in 2013-2014 Legislative Session:
A8390

2015-A1886 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Includes vehicles operated by sanitation workers in the definition of "hazard vehicle".

2015-A1886 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  1886

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 13, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  MONTESANO, JAFFEE, LUPINACCI, RAIA, GUNTHER,
  SALADINO, RA, McKEVITT, GALEF -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. CERET-
  TO, RIVERA -- read once and referred to the Committee  on  Transporta-
  tion

AN  ACT  to  amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to including
  vehicles operated by sanitation workers in the definition  of  "hazard
  vehicle"

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Section 117-a of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by
chapter 154 of the laws of 1992, is amended to read as follows:
  S 117-a. Hazard vehicle.  Every vehicle owned and operated  or  leased
by a utility, whether public or private, used in the construction, main-
tenance  and  repair of its facilities, every vehicle specially equipped
or designed for the towing or pushing of disabled vehicles, every  vehi-
cle  engaged  in  highway  maintenance, or in ice and snow removal where
such operation involves the use of a public highway, EVERY VEHICLE OPER-
ATED BY A SANITATION OR RECYCLING WORKER IN THE PERFORMANCE  OF  HIS  OR
HER  OFFICIAL  DUTIES and vehicles driven by rural letter carriers while
in the performance of [their] HIS OR HER official duties.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD02493-01-5

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