Bill Text: NY A09662 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to parking spaces for handicapped persons; provides that the commissioner of motor vehicles shall provide in any pre-licensing course a mandatory component of education of the laws relating to handicapped accessible parking.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-30 - referred to transportation [A09662 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A09662-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9662
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 30, 2018
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  O'DONNELL  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Transportation
        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic  law,  in  relation  to  parking
          spaces for handicapped persons
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 4 of section 502 of the  vehi-
     2  cle  and  traffic law, as amended by chapter 355 of the laws of 2017, is
     3  amended and a new paragraph (i) is added to read as follows:
     4    (b) Upon successful completion of the requirements set forth in  para-
     5  graph  (a)  of  this subdivision which shall include an alcohol and drug
     6  education component as described in paragraph (c) of this subdivision, a
     7  "Road Rage" awareness component as described in paragraph (c-1) of  this
     8  subdivision and a "Work Zone Safety" awareness component as described in
     9  paragraph  (c-2) of this subdivision, [and] a "Motorcycle Safety" aware-
    10  ness component as described in paragraph (c-3) of this subdivision,  and
    11  instruction  in  the laws relating to parking spaces for the handicapped
    12  as described in paragraph (i)  of  this  subdivision,  the  commissioner
    13  shall  cause the applicant to take a road test in a representative vehi-
    14  cle of a type prescribed by the commissioner which shall be  appropriate
    15  to  the  type  of license for which application is made, except that the
    16  commissioner may waive the road test requirements for certain classes of
    17  applicants. The commissioner shall have the power to establish a program
    18  to allow persons other than employees of the department to conduct  road
    19  tests in representative vehicles when such tests are required for appli-
    20  cants  to obtain a class A, B or C license. If she chooses to do so, she
    21  shall set forth her reasons in writing and conduct a public  hearing  on
    22  the  matter.  She  shall only establish such a program after holding the
    23  public hearing.
    24    (i) The commissioner shall provide in the  pre-licensing  course,  set
    25  forth  in  paragraph  (b)  of  this subdivision a mandatory component in
    26  education of the laws relating to handicapped accessible parking.
    27    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    28  it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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