Assembly Bill A787

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Provides that in N.Y. city flashing purple lights may be affixed to and displayed on buses operated on a bus rapid transit route

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2019-A787 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S466
Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §375, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: S7068
2015-2016: A6375, S53
2017-2018: A3603, S22
2021-2022: A65

2019-A787 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that in a city of one million or more, flashing purple lights may be affixed to and displayed on buses operated on a bus rapid transit route.

2019-A787 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    787
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 11, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. QUART -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in  relation  to  providing
   that  in  a  city of one million or more flashing purple lights may be
   affixed to and displayed on buses operated  on  a  bus  rapid  transit
   route

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 41 of section 375 of the  vehicle  and  traffic
 law is amended by adding a new paragraph 1-a to read as follows:
   1-A.  IN  A  CITY  WITH  A POPULATION OF ONE MILLION OR MORE, FLASHING
 PURPLE LIGHTS MAY BE AFFIXED TO AND DISPLAYED ON BUSES OPERATED ON A BUS
 RAPID TRANSIT ROUTE. SUCH FLASHING PURPLE LIGHTS MAY BE USED EXCLUSIVELY
 BY A BUS DRIVER AUTHORIZED BY THE APPLICABLE MASS TRANSIT AGENCY ON  ANY
 BUS RAPID TRANSIT ROUTE, PROVIDED THAT FLASHING PURPLE LIGHTS MAY NOT BE
 UTILIZED ON ANY BUS OPERATING ON A BUS RAPID TRANSIT ROUTE WHERE THE BUS
 FARE  IS  PAID  UPON  BOARDING. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS PARAGRAPH, "BUS
 RAPID TRANSIT ROUTE" SHALL INCLUDE ROUTES DESIGNATED AS SUCH BY THE  NEW
 YORK  CITY  DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND THE APPLICABLE MASS TRANSIT
 AGENCY, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THOSE ROUTES SPECIFIED IN  SECTION
 ELEVEN HUNDRED ELEVEN-C OF THIS CHAPTER.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01132-01-9

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