Bill Text: NY A04417 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires charter buses to use commercial global positioning system technology which takes into account the minimum clearance of the motor vehicle.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 16-5)

Status: (Vetoed) 2019-12-06 - VETOED MEMO.177 [A04417 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4417
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 4, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. DenDEKKER, COLTON, M. G. MILLER, DICKENS, COOK,
          D'URSO, TAYLOR,  NIOU,  MOSLEY,  SOLAGES,  McDONOUGH,  MONTESANO,  RA,
          LAWRENCE,  GOTTFRIED  --  Multi-Sponsored  by -- M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT,
          GALEF, NOLAN, SIMON, THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Transportation
        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in  relation  to  requiring
          charter buses to use commercial global positioning system technology
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The vehicle and traffic law is  amended  by  adding  a  new
     2  section 509-dd to read as follows:
     3    §  509-dd.  Additional  requirements  for charter buses. (1) No driver
     4  shall operate a charter bus and a motor carrier shall not permit a driv-
     5  er to operate a charter bus without the use of commercial  global  posi-
     6  tioning system (GPS) technology.
     7    (2) For the purposes of this section:
     8    (a) "Charter bus" shall mean a bus transporting passengers for compen-
     9  sation in chartered party.
    10    (b) "Chartered party" shall mean a group of persons who, pursuant to a
    11  common  purpose  and under a single contract and at a fixed charge, have
    12  acquired exclusive use of a bus to travel  together  as  a  group  to  a
    13  specific destination or for a particular itinerary either agreed upon in
    14  advance or modified after having left the place of origin by such group.
    15    (c) "Commercial global positioning system (GPS) technology" shall mean
    16  global  positioning  system (GPS) technology which has been specifically
    17  designed to assist in the navigation of commercial motor vehicles  which
    18  includes,  but  is  not  limited to, selection of routes which take into
    19  account the minimum clearance of such motor vehicle.
    20    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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