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Assembly Bill A1155

2011-2012 Legislative Session

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

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2011-A1155 (ACTIVE) - Details

Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง1229-b, V & T L
Versions Introduced in 2009-2010 Legislative Session:
A223

2011-A1155 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2011-A1155 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  1155

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 5, 2011
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. PHEFFER, DINOWITZ, GUNTHER -- Multi-Sponsored by
  -- M. of A.  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.
                                                           LBD00733-01-1

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