Bill Text: NY A08474 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to stretch limousine safety requirements and changes the class of license required to operate stretch limousines; stretch limousines are vehicles that have a seating capacity of nine or more.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 23-3)

Status: (Passed) 2020-02-03 - signed chap.6 [A08474 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A08474-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8474

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      July 8, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Transportation

        AN ACT to amend the transportation law and the vehicle and traffic  law,
          in  relation  to  excluding  commercial  motor vehicles with a seating
          capacity of nine or more persons from the definition of the term sedan
          and changing the class of license required to operate  stretch  limou-
          sines

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The closing paragraph of section 151 of the  transportation
     2  law,  as  amended  by  section  8 of part G of chapter 58 of the laws of
     3  2012, is amended to read as follows:
     4    For the purposes of this article, the term "sedan" or "sedans" as used
     5  herein shall  include  private  passenger  automobiles,  but  shall  not
     6  include  commercial  motor  vehicles with a seating capacity of [eleven]
     7  nine persons or more including the driver.
     8    § 2. Subparagraph (iv) of paragraph (b) of subdivision  2  of  section
     9  501 of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by section 4 of part E of
    10  chapter 58 of the laws of 2016, is amended to read as follows:
    11    (iv)  P  endorsement. Shall be required to operate a bus as defined in
    12  sections one hundred four and five hundred nine-a of  this  chapter,  an
    13  altered motor vehicle commonly referred to as a stretch limousine having
    14  a  seating  capacity of nine or more passengers including the driver, or
    15  any motor vehicle with a gross vehicle weight or  gross  vehicle  weight
    16  rating  of  more  than  twenty-six  thousand pounds which is designed to
    17  transport passengers in commerce. For the purposes of this  subparagraph
    18  the  gross  vehicle  weight of a vehicle shall mean the actual weight of
    19  the vehicle and the load.
    20    § 3. Subparagraph (iv) of paragraph (a) of subdivision  4  of  section
    21  501-a  of  the  vehicle  and traffic law, as added by chapter 173 of the
    22  laws of 1990, is amended to read as follows:

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    (iv) defined as a bus in  subdivision  one  of  section  five  hundred
     2  nine-a  of this chapter or an altered motor vehicle commonly referred to
     3  as a stretch limousine having a seating capacity of nine or more passen-
     4  gers including the driver; or
     5    §  4. This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding
     6  the date on which it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the
     7  addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule  or  regulation  necessary
     8  for  the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized
     9  to be made and completed on or before such effective date.