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Assembly Bill A8726

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to the display of a bus driver's credentials

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2017-A8726 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6921
Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§509-b & 509-m, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A2188, S3450
2021-2022: A3461, S4450
2023-2024: A1838, S1817

2017-A8726 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the display of a bus driver's credentials prominently while he or she is on duty and changes the review of his or her files by the department from every three years to annually.

2017-A8726 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8726
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             October 20, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. KIM -- read once and referred to the Committee on
   Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to the display-
   ing  of  a bus driver's credentials while he or she is on duty and the
   review of his or her files
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivisions  3 and 4 of section 509-b of the vehicle and
 traffic law, as added by chapter 675 of the laws of  1985,  are  amended
 and a new subdivision 5 is added to read as follows:
   (3) has passed the bus driver physical examination administered pursu-
 ant to regulations established by the commissioner; [and]
   (4)  is  not disqualified to drive a motor vehicle pursuant to section
 five hundred nine-c or any other provision of this article[.]; AND
   (5) DISPLAYS PROMINENTLY, IN THE FRONT OF  THE  BUS,  THE  CREDENTIALS
 ISSUED  BY  THE  DEPARTMENT  AS REQUIRED IN SUBDIVISION EIGHT OF SECTION
 FIVE HUNDRED NINE-M OF THIS ARTICLE AS PROOF OF HIS  OR  HER  QUALIFICA-
 TIONS WHILE HE OR SHE IS ON DUTY.
   § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 509-m of the vehicle and traffic law, as
 added  by chapter 675 of the laws of 1985, is amended and a new subdivi-
 sion 8 is added to read as follows:
   1. At least once [every three years] ANNUALLY, review the  bus  driver
 files  of  each  motor carrier, provided, however, that the commissioner
 may review such bus driver files at his discretion  at  any  other  time
 during regular business hours.
   8.  ISSUE  NEW  CREDENTIALS,  DESIGNED FOR PUBLIC DISPLAY, WHICH SHALL
 SERVE AS PROOF THAT A BUS DRIVER IS QUALIFIED UNDER SECTION FIVE HUNDRED
 NINE-B OF THIS ARTICLE. SUCH CREDENTIALS SHALL BE RE-ISSUED ANNUALLY.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13582-03-7

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