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Assembly Bill A6952

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to the use of hazard lights when traveling at certain speeds

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2023-A6952 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1163, V & T L
Versions Introduced in 2025-2026 Legislative Session:
A3912

2023-A6952 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the use of hazard lights when traveling at a speed slower than or equal to 15 mph below the speed limit.

2023-A6952 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6952
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                May 9, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. BRONSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to the  use  of
   hazard lights when traveling at certain speeds
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subdivision (e) of section 1163 of the vehicle and  traffic
 law,  as added by chapter 388 of the laws of 1970, is amended to read as
 follows:
   (e) The driver of a  vehicle  equipped  with  simultaneously  flashing
 signals  as  provided  for  in  subdivision  eighteen-a of section three
 hundred seventy-five OF THIS CHAPTER shall use such signals when (I) the
 vehicle is stopped or disabled on a public  highway,  except  when  such
 vehicle  is  stopped in compliance with a traffic-control device or when
 legally parked; OR (II) WHEN THE DRIVER IS OPERATING THE  VEHICLE  AT  A
 SPEED  SLOWER  THAN  OR EQUAL TO FIFTEEN MILES PER HOUR BELOW THE POSTED
 MAXIMUM SPEED LIMIT.  The driver of a vehicle so equipped may  use  such
 signals  whenever  necessary to warn the operators of following vehicles
 of the presence of a traffic hazard ahead of the signaling  vehicle,  or
 to  warn  the operators of other vehicles that the signaling vehicle may
 itself constitute a traffic hazard,  taking  into  account  traffic  and
 highway  conditions.  No  person  shall  use  such signals for any other
 purpose.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10972-01-3

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