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Assembly Bill A894

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Relates to the identification of vehicles being used by student drivers

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2009-A894 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง375, V & T L

2009-A894 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes any motor vehicle used by a person with a learner's permit shall bear identification to indicate that the vehicle is being driven by a student driver; such identification shall be visible to oncoming and following traffic.

2009-A894 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                   894

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 7, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. McDONOUGH, RAIA -- read once and referred to the
  Committee on Transportation

AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation  to  the  iden-
  tification of vehicles being used by student drivers

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

  Section 1. Section 375 of the vehicle and traffic law  is  amended  by
adding a new subdivision 44-a to read as follows:
  44-A.  VEHICLES DRIVEN BY STUDENT DRIVERS. ANY MOTOR VEHICLE USED BY A
PERSON WITH A LEARNER'S PERMIT SHALL  BEAR  IDENTIFICATION,  VISIBLE  TO
BOTH  ONCOMING  AND  FOLLOWING  TRAFFIC, TO INDICATE THAT THE VEHICLE IS
BEING DRIVEN BY A STUDENT DRIVER. THE COST OF SUCH IDENTIFICATION  SHALL
BE  PAID  BY THE STUDENT DRIVER. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL ESTABLISH STAND-
ARDS FOR SUCH IDENTIFICATION.
  S 2. This act shall  take  effect  on  the  first  of  September  next
succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.





 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD01377-01-9

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