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Senate Bill S9988

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Provides a defense from liability for certain department of sanitation vehicles standing, stopped, or parked in violation of certain bus lane restrictions in New York city

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2025-S9988 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A10914
Current Committee:
Senate Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§1111-c & 1111-c-1, V & T L

2025-S9988 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides a defense from liability for certain department of sanitation vehicles standing, stopped, or parked in violation of certain bus lane restrictions in New York city.

2025-S9988 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9988
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              April 21, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  COMRIE -- 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 providing  a
   defense  from  liability for certain department of sanitation vehicles
   standing,  stopped,  or  parked  in  violation  of  certain  bus  lane
   restrictions in New York city

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 1111-c of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by
 adding a new subdivision (p) to read as follows:
   (P) IT SHALL BE A DEFENSE TO ANY NOTICE OF  LIABILITY  ISSUED  TO  THE
 OWNER  OF  A  VEHICLE OF THE DEPARTMENT OF SANITATION OF THE CITY OF NEW
 YORK FOR STANDING, STOPPING, OR PARKING IN A BUS LANE  IN  VIOLATION  OF
 THE APPLICABLE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 4-08 OF CHAPTER FOUR OF TITLE THIR-
 TY-FOUR  OF  THE  RULES  OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK PURSUANT TO A BUS RAPID
 TRANSIT PROGRAM ADOPTED PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION THAT  THE  OPERATOR  OF
 THE  VEHICLE WAS AN EMPLOYEE OF THE DEPARTMENT OF SANITATION OF THE CITY
 OF NEW YORK PERFORMING AUTHORIZED DUTIES  INVOLVING  A  VEHICLE  OF  THE
 DEPARTMENT OF SANITATION OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK IN SUCH BUS LANE.
   §  2.  Section  1111-c-1  of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by
 adding a new subdivision (r) to read as follows:
   (R) IT SHALL BE A DEFENSE TO ANY NOTICE OF  LIABILITY  ISSUED  TO  THE
 OWNER  OF  A  VEHICLE OF THE DEPARTMENT OF SANITATION OF THE CITY OF NEW
 YORK FOR A VIOLATION OF SECTION 4-08(F)(4)  OF  CHAPTER  FOUR  OF  TITLE
 THIRTY-FOUR  OF  THE  RULES OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK PURSUANT TO A DEMON-
 STRATION PROGRAM ADOPTED PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION THAT THE  OPERATOR  OF
 THE  VEHICLE WAS AN EMPLOYEE OF THE DEPARTMENT OF SANITATION OF THE CITY
 OF NEW YORK PERFORMING AUTHORIZED DUTIES  INVOLVING  A  VEHICLE  OF  THE
 DEPARTMENT OF SANITATION OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK IN SUCH BUS LANE.
   §  3.  This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
 the amendments to sections 1111-c and 1111-c-1 of the vehicle and  traf-
 fic  law  made  by sections one and two of this act shall not affect the
 repeal of such sections and shall be deemed repealed therewith.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD15376-01-6

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