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Assembly Bill A5282

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Provides that flashing purple lights may be affixed to and displayed on buses operated on a bus rapid transit route in N.Y. city

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2015-A5282 (ACTIVE) - Details

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

2015-A5282 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that flashing purple lights may be affixed to and displayed on buses operated on a bus rapid transit route in a city of one million or more.

2015-A5282 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  5282

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 17, 2015
                               ___________

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

AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in  relation  to  providing
  that  flashing  purple lights may be affixed to and displayed on buses
  operated on a bus rapid transit route in a city of one million or more

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

  Section  1.  Paragraph  6, 7 and 8 of subdivision 41 of section 375 of
the vehicle and traffic law are renumbered paragraphs 7, 8 and 9  a  new
paragraph 6 is added to read as follows:
  6.  PURPLE  LIGHT. IN A CITY WITH A POPULATION OF ONE MILLION OR MORE,
FLASHING PURPLE LIGHTS MAY BE AFFIXED TO AND DISPLAYED ON BUSES OPERATED
ON A BUS RAPID TRANSIT ROUTE. SUCH FLASHING PURPLE LIGHTS  MAY  BE  USED
EXCLUSIVELY  BY  A  BUS DRIVER AUTHORIZED BY THE APPLICABLE MASS TRANSIT
AGENCY ON ANY BUS RAPID TRANSIT ROUTE,  PROVIDED  THAT  FLASHING  PURPLE
LIGHTS  MAY  NOT BE UTILIZED ON ANY BUS OPERATING ON A BUS RAPID TRANSIT
ROUTE WHERE THE BUS FARE IS PAID UPON BOARDING. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS
PARAGRAPH, "BUS RAPID TRANSIT ROUTE" SHALL INCLUDE ROUTES DESIGNATED  AS
SUCH  BY THE NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND THE APPLICA-
BLE MASS TRANSIT AGENCY, INCLUDING BUT  NOT  LIMITED  TO,  THOSE  ROUTES
SPECIFIED IN SECTION ELEVEN HUNDRED ELEVEN-C OF THIS CHAPTER.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD06124-01-5

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