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Assembly Bill A223

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Prohibits the operation of a school, camp, or charter omnibus with any passenger standing

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2009-A223 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง1229-b, V & T L
Versions Introduced in 2011-2012 Legislative Session:
A1155

2009-A223 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits, without exception, the operation of a school, camp, or charter omnibus with any passenger standing.

2009-A223 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                   223

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 7, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. PHEFFER, DINOWITZ, GUNTHER -- Multi-Sponsored by
  -- M. of A. ALFANO, BARRA, DIAZ, ENGLEBRIGHT, PERRY, P. RIVERA, TOWNS,
  WEINSTEIN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation

AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to  prohibiting
  standing on school, camp, and charter omnibuses

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

  Section 1. Section 1229-b of the vehicle and traffic law,  as  amended
by chapter 19 of the laws of 2000, is amended to read as follows:
  S 1229-b. Operation of school, camp and charter omnibuses with passen-
gers  standing  prohibited.  1. When the number of passengers is greater
than the number of seats available, it shall be unlawful  to  operate  a
camp  or charter omnibus upon the public highways [for a distance of ten
miles or more] with any passenger standing.
  2. It shall be unlawful to operate upon the public highways  a  school
bus  owned  by  or  contracted  to  a school district with any passenger
standing whenever it is employed exclusively for the  transportation  of
students  under  the  age  of  twenty-one  and teachers or other persons
acting in a supervisory capacity to or  from  school  or  school  activ-
ities[, except as provided in paragraph (a) or (b) of this subdivision:
  (a)  Standing  passengers  may  be  permitted  on  such  a school bus,
provided that the number of standing passengers on a  school  bus  shall
not  exceed  the  limit  established  in  the following schedule for the
applicable time period:
     Period:                              Not more than:
Through June 30, 2001                 20% of approved seating capacity
Between July 1, 2001 and              15% of approved seating capacity
 June 30, 2002
Between July 1, 2002 and              10% of approved seating capacity

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD01872-01-9

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