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Assembly Bill A4305

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Prohibits grass clippings from being thrown or deposited upon any highway

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2025-A4305 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1219, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A9559
2023-2024: A4226

2025-A4305 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits grass clippings from being thrown or deposited upon any highway.

2025-A4305 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4305
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 4, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  TAGUE, GALLAHAN, DeSTEFANO, MIKULIN, DAVILA,
   LEMONDES -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to  prohibiting
   grass clippings from being thrown or deposited upon any highway

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision (a) of section 1219 of the vehicle and  traffic
 law is amended to read as follows:
   (a)  No  person  shall  throw  or  deposit  upon any highway any glass
 bottle, glass, nails, tacks, wire, cans, GRASS CLIPPINGS,  snow  or  any
 other  substance  likely  to  injure any person, animal, or vehicle upon
 such highway.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD08439-01-5

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