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                                   8510
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              August 7, 2019
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 Introduced  by M. of A. ORTIZ -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation  to  adding  an
   explanation  of  the safety benefits of using the "dutch reach" to the
   driver's manual
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  3  of section 502 of the vehicle and traffic
 law, as amended by chapter 97 of the laws of 2016, is amended to read as
 follows:
   3. Application for learner's permit. An application  for  a  learner's
 permit  shall  be included in the application for a license. A learner's
 permit shall be issued in such form as the commissioner shall  determine
 but shall not be issued unless the applicant has successfully passed the
 vision test required by this section and the test set forth in paragraph
 (a) of subdivision four of this section with respect to laws relating to
 traffic and ability to read and comprehend traffic signs and symbols and
 has  satisfactorily  completed any course required pursuant to paragraph
 (a) of subdivision four of this section. Upon acceptance of an  applica-
 tion for a learner's permit the commissioner shall provide the applicant
 with  a  driver's  manual  which includes but is not limited to the laws
 relating to traffic, the laws relating to and physiological  effects  of
 driving  while  ability  impaired and driving while intoxicated, the law
 for exercising due care to avoid colliding with  a  parked,  stopped  or
 standing vehicle pursuant to section eleven hundred forty-four-a of this
 chapter,  explanations  of  traffic signs and symbols, AN EXPLANATION OF
 THE SAFETY BENEFITS OF OPENING A DOOR FROM WITHIN  A  MOTOR  VEHICLE  BY
 FIRST  CHECKING THE REAR-VIEW MIRROR, NEXT CHECKING THE SIDE-MIRROR, AND
 FINALLY USING THE HAND FURTHEST FROM THE DOOR TO OPEN SUCH DOOR, THEREBY
 FORCING ONE'S BODY TO TURN AND MORE EASILY SPOT AN APPROACHING  CYCLIST,
 and such other matters as the commissioner may prescribe.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

                                                            LBD13582-01-9

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   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law.    Effective  immediately,  the  addition,  amendment
 and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation
 of  this  act  on  its  effective  date  are  authorized  to be made and
 completed on or before such effective date.