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Senate Bill S5128

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Prohibits the use of parking lanes to overtake vehicles on the right

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2017-S5128 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1123, V & T L
Versions Introduced in 2015-2016 Legislative Session:
S5440

2017-S5128 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits the use of parking lanes to overtake vehicles on the right.

2017-S5128 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S5128 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5128
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               March 9, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  AVELLA -- 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  prohibiting
   the use of parking lanes to overtake vehicles on the right
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 1123 of the vehicle and  traffic  law,  subdivision
 (b) as amended by chapter 162 of the laws of 1990, is amended to read as
 follows:
   § 1123. When overtaking on the right is permitted. (a) The driver of a
 vehicle  may  overtake  and  pass upon the right of another vehicle only
 under the following conditions:
   1. When the vehicle overtaken is making or about to make a left turn;
   2. Upon a street or highway with unobstructed pavement not occupied by
 parked vehicles of sufficient width for two  or  more  lines  of  moving
 vehicles in each direction;
   3.  Upon  a  one-way  street,  or upon any roadway on which traffic is
 restricted to one direction of movement, where the roadway is free  from
 obstructions  and  of  sufficient  width for two or more lines of moving
 vehicles.
   (b) The driver of a vehicle may overtake and pass another vehicle upon
 the right only under conditions  permitting  such  movement  in  safety.
 Such  movement  shall  not  be made by driving off the pavement or main-
 traveled portion of the roadway, OR BY USING A PARKING LANE,  except  as
 permitted by section eleven hundred thirty-one of this article.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10175-01-7

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