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Assembly Bill A9988

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Requires drivers of vehicles to yield the right of way to drivers who are attempting to exit certain parking spaces

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2011-A9988 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง1211, V & T L

2011-A9988 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires drivers of vehicles to yield the right of way to drivers who are attempting to exit certain parking spaces.

2011-A9988 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  9988

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             April 30, 2012
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  J. MILLER  --  read once and referred to the
  Committee on Transportation

AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in  relation  to  requiring
  drivers  of  vehicles  to  yield  the  right of way of drivers who are
  attempting to exit certain parking spaces

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

  Section 1.  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "safe exit
act".
  S  2.  Subdivision (a) of section 1211 of the vehicle and traffic law,
as amended by chapter 653 of the laws of 1964,   is amended to  read  as
follows:
  (a)  The driver of a vehicle shall not back the same unless such move-
ment can be made with safety and without interfering with other  traffic
PROVIDED  HOWEVER,  A  DRIVER  OF A VEHICLE APPROACHING A PARKING SPACE,
WHICH IS PART OF A ROW  OF  PARKING  SPACES,  WHERE  ANOTHER  DRIVER  IS
ATTEMPTING TO EXIT SUCH PARKING SPACE AT AN APPROPRIATE SPEED AND HAS AN
APPARENT  LIMITED VIEW OF APPROACHING TRAFFIC, SHALL YIELD THE RIGHT  OF
WAY TO THE VEHICLE ATTEMPTING TO EXIT SUCH PARKING SPACE.
  S 3. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
have become a law.





 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD15077-08-2

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