Bill Text: NY A09988 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires drivers of vehicles to yield the right of way to drivers who are attempting to exit certain parking spaces.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-04-30 - referred to transportation [A09988 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A09988-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         9988
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                    April 30, 2012
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       Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  J. MILLER  --  read once and referred to the
         Committee on Transportation
       AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in  relation  to  requiring
         drivers  of  vehicles  to  yield  the  right of way of drivers who are
         attempting to exit certain parking spaces
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1.  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "safe exit
    2  act".
    3    S  2.  Subdivision (a) of section 1211 of the vehicle and traffic law,
    4  as amended by chapter 653 of the laws of 1964,   is amended to  read  as
    5  follows:
    6    (a)  The driver of a vehicle shall not back the same unless such move-
    7  ment can be made with safety and without interfering with other  traffic
    8  PROVIDED  HOWEVER,  A  DRIVER  OF A VEHICLE APPROACHING A PARKING SPACE,
    9  WHICH IS PART OF A ROW  OF  PARKING  SPACES,  WHERE  ANOTHER  DRIVER  IS
   10  ATTEMPTING TO EXIT SUCH PARKING SPACE AT AN APPROPRIATE SPEED AND HAS AN
   11  APPARENT  LIMITED VIEW OF APPROACHING TRAFFIC, SHALL YIELD THE RIGHT  OF
   12  WAY TO THE VEHICLE ATTEMPTING TO EXIT SUCH PARKING SPACE.
   13    S 3. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
   14  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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