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Assembly Bill A2167

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Requires the commissioner of motor vehicles to install notification of the thirty foot requirement on every stop sign

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2015-A2167 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง1202, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: A9815
2017-2018: A796
2019-2020: A4208
2021-2022: A1844
2023-2024: A3511
2025-2026: A6715

2015-A2167 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the commissioner of motor vehicles to install notification of the thirty-foot requirement on every stop sign.

2015-A2167 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  2167

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 15, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Commit-
  tee on Transportation

AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to parking near
  a stop sign

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

  Section 1. Subparagraph c of paragraph 2 of subdivision (a) of section
1202  of  the  vehicle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 679 of the
laws of 1970, is amended to read as follows:
  c. Within thirty feet upon the approach to any flashing  signal,  stop
or yield sign or traffic-control signal located at the side of the road-
way,  unless  a different distance is indicated by official signs, mark-
ings or parking meters. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL ENSURE THAT  NOTIFICATION
OF THE DISTANCE REQUIREMENT ESTABLISHED BY THIS SECTION IS CONSPICUOUSLY
POSTED BENEATH ANY STOP SIGN POSTED ON A STATE HIGHWAY;
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
it  shall  have become a law. Effective immediately, the commissioner of
motor vehicles may begin the installation of any  signs  required  as  a
result of this act.





 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD05642-01-5

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