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February 1, 2012
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Introduced by Sen. MARCELLINO -- 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, in relation to prohibiting
motor vehicles engaged in retail sales of frozen desserts directly to
consumers from turning right at red lights
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Subparagraph a of paragraph 2 of subdivision (d) of section
1111 of the vehicle and traffic law, as separately amended by chapters
230 and 420 of the laws of 1980, is amended to read as follows:
a. Traffic, EXCEPT MOTOR VEHICLES ENGAGED IN RETAIL SALES OF FROZEN
DESSERTS DIRECTLY TO CONSUMERS AS REGULATED BY SUBDIVISION THIRTY-SEVEN
OF SECTION THREE HUNDRED SEVENTY-FIVE OF THIS CHAPTER, facing a steady
circular red signal may cautiously enter the intersection to make a
right turn after stopping as required by paragraph one of this subdivi-
sion, except that right turning traffic is not required to stop when a
steady right green arrow signal is shown at the same time. Such traffic
shall yield the right-of-way to pedestrians within a marked or unmarked
crosswalk at the intersection and to other traffic lawfully using the
intersection;
S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
tation of this act on its effective date is authorized to be made on or
before such date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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