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                                   6381
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              April 18, 2023
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 Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- 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 signage  for
   persons driving under a learner's permit
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 501-b of the vehicle  and  traffic
 law, as added by chapter 644 of the laws of 2002, paragraphs (c) and (d)
 as  amended  by  chapter  403 of the laws of 2009, is amended to read as
 follows:
   1. In addition to the restrictions contained in  subdivision  five  of
 section  five  hundred  one  of this article, no holder of a class DJ or
 class MJ learner's permit shall:
   (a) operate a motor vehicle with any front seat occupants  other  than
 the supervising driver;
   (b)  operate  a motor vehicle unless every occupant of such vehicle is
 properly restrained by a safety belt or child safety seat in  accordance
 with  the  provisions  of  subdivision three-a of section twelve hundred
 twenty-nine-c of this chapter;
   (c) operate a motor vehicle with more than one passenger who is  under
 the age of twenty-one and who is not a member of such holder's immediate
 family,  provided,  however, that the provisions of this paragraph shall
 not apply when such holder is accompanied by  a  duly  licensed  parent,
 guardian, person in a position of loco parentis, driver education teach-
 er or driving school instructor;
   (d)  be eligible for issuance of a class DJ, MJ, D or M license unless
 such permit has been valid for at least six months. Any time  period  in
 which such class DJ or MJ learner's permit has been suspended or revoked
 shall  not  be  counted  in  determining  the  length  of time that such
 learner's permit has been valid;
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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   (E) OPERATE A MOTOR VEHICLE WITHOUT A SIGN, VISIBLE TO  BOTH  ONCOMING
 AND FOLLOWING TRAFFIC, INDICATING THAT SUCH VEHICLE IS BEING DRIVEN BY A
 NEW  DRIVER.  SUCH  SIGN  SHALL  BE IN SUCH FORM AND DISTRIBUTED IN SUCH
 MANNER AS PROVIDED BY THE COMMISSIONER UPON ISSUANCE OF  SUCH  LEARNER'S
 PERMIT.
   §  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect  on  the first of September next
 succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.