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Senate Bill S4118

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to expanding the direction when overtaking and passing a school bus

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2017-S4118 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1174, V & T L

2017-S4118 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to expanding the direction when overtaking and passing a school bus; changes "either direction" to "any direction".

2017-S4118 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S4118 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4118
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 3, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  AKSHAR -- 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  expanding
   the direction when overtaking and passing a school bus
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision (a) of section 1174 of the vehicle and  traffic
 law,  as  amended by chapter 597 of the laws of 1990, is amended to read
 as follows:
   (a) The driver of a vehicle upon a public highway, street  or  private
 road  upon  meeting or overtaking from [either] ANY direction any school
 bus marked and equipped as provided in  subdivision  twenty  of  section
 three  hundred  seventy-five  of  this  chapter which has stopped on the
 public highway, street or private road for the purpose of  receiving  or
 discharging any passengers, or which has stopped because a school bus in
 front  of  it  has stopped to receive or discharge any passengers, shall
 stop the vehicle before reaching such school bus when there is in opera-
 tion on said school bus a red visual signal as specified in  subdivision
 twenty  of  section  three hundred seventy-five of this chapter and said
 driver shall not proceed until such school bus resumes motion, or  until
 signaled  by the driver or a police officer to proceed. For the purposes
 of this section, and in  addition  to  the  provisions  of  section  one
 hundred  thirty-four  of  this  chapter, the term "public highway" shall
 mean any area used for the parking of motor vehicles or used as a drive-
 way located on the grounds of a school or  of  a  board  of  cooperative
 educational  services  facility or any area used as a means of access to
 and egress from such school or facility.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09748-01-7

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