Senate Bill S1169

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                  1169

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                             January 9, 2015
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Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- 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 signage  for
  persons driving under a learner's permit

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

  Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 501-b of the vehicle  and  traffic
law, as added by chapter 644 of the laws of 2002, paragraphs (c) and (d)
as  amended  by  chapter  403 of the laws of 2009, is amended to read as
follows:
  1. In addition to the restrictions contained in  subdivision  five  of
section  five  hundred  one  of this article, no holder of a class DJ or
class MJ learner's permit shall:
  (a) operate a motor vehicle with any front seat occupants  other  than
the supervising driver;
  (b)  operate  a motor vehicle unless every occupant of such vehicle is
properly restrained by a safety belt or child safety seat in  accordance
with  the  provisions  of  subdivision three-a of section twelve hundred
twenty-nine-c of this chapter;
  (c) operate a motor vehicle with more than one passenger who is  under
the age of twenty-one and who is not a member of such holder's immediate
family,  provided,  however, that the provisions of this paragraph shall
not apply when such holder is accompanied by  a  duly  licensed  parent,
guardian, person in a position of loco parentis, driver education teach-
er or driving school instructor;
  (d)  be eligible for issuance of a class DJ, MJ, D or M license unless
such permit has been valid for at least six months. Any time  period  in
which such class DJ or MJ learner's permit has been suspended or revoked
shall  not  be  counted  in  determining  the  length  of time that such
learner's permit has been valid;

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD00057-01-5

              

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  (E) OPERATE A MOTOR VEHICLE WITHOUT A SIGN, VISIBLE TO  BOTH  ONCOMING
AND FOLLOWING TRAFFIC, INDICATING THAT SUCH VEHICLE IS BEING DRIVEN BY A
NEW  DRIVER.  SUCH  SIGN  SHALL  BE IN SUCH FORM AND DISTRIBUTED IN SUCH
MANNER AS PROVIDED BY THE COMMISSIONER UPON ISSUANCE OF  SUCH  LEARNER'S
PERMIT.
  S  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect  on  the first of September next
succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.