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Assembly Bill A4208

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Requires the commissioner of motor vehicles to install notification of the thirty foot requirement on every stop sign

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2019-A4208 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1202, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: A9815
2015-2016: A2167
2017-2018: A796
2021-2022: A1844
2023-2024: A3511
2025-2026: A6715

2019-A4208 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the commissioner of motor vehicles to install notification of the thirty-foot requirement on every stop sign; ensures that the required distance established by the law will be posted on any stop sign to forewarn motorists upon approaching a stop sign.

2019-A4208 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4208
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 1, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to parking near
   a stop sign
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subparagraph c of paragraph 2 of subdivision (a) of section
 1202  of  the  vehicle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 679 of the
 laws of 1970, is amended to read as follows:
   c. Within thirty feet upon the approach to any flashing  signal,  stop
 or yield sign or traffic-control signal located at the side of the road-
 way,  unless  a different distance is indicated by official signs, mark-
 ings or parking meters. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL ENSURE THAT  NOTIFICATION
 OF THE DISTANCE REQUIREMENT ESTABLISHED BY THIS SECTION IS CONSPICUOUSLY
 POSTED BENEATH ANY STOP SIGN POSTED ON A STATE HIGHWAY;
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it  shall  have become a law. Effective immediately, the commissioner of
 motor vehicles may begin the installation of any  signs  required  as  a
 result of this act.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04421-01-9

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