Bill Text: NY S00998 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Provides that motor vehicles, with certain exceptions, shall not be operated with an accumulation of snow or ice on the surface thereof; establishes fines for violation of these provisions; establishes a fund for the state's portion of such fines, the "snow and ice removal fund" with 10% of the funds going to an annual DMV report on the fund, 25% going to each the DOT and the Thruway authority for establishing snow and ice removal sites on their roads, 30% for a DOT grant program and 10% for a public awareness campaign.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-26 - PRINT NUMBER 998A [S00998 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S00998-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 998--A 2015-2016 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 8, 2015 ___________ Introduced by Sens. DILAN, AVELLA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation -- recommitted to the Committee on Transportation in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to requiring surfaces of certain motor vehicles to be cleared of accumulated snow, sleet, or hail; to amend the state finance law, the public authorities law and the transportation law, in relation to the snow and ice removal fund; and providing for the repeal of certain provisions upon expiration thereof 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 1229-e to read as follows: 3 § 1229-e. Clearance of snow, sleet, and hail. 1. No person shall oper- 4 ate a motor vehicle on a public street or highway while there is an 5 accumulation of snow, sleet, or hail on the roof or cargo bed surfaces 6 thereof, whether of any occupant compartment, trailer, or other cargo 7 compartment in excess of three inches. 8 2. The removal of accumulated snow, sleet, or hail required by subdi- 9 vision one of this section shall not apply during the falling of snow, 10 sleet, or hail or within three hours after the cessation of the falling 11 thereof. 12 3. (a) The operator of a non-commercial vehicle in violation of the 13 provisions of this section, excluding a disabled operator, shall be 14 subject to a fine of not less than one hundred fifty dollars nor more 15 than eight hundred fifty dollars. 16 (b) The operator, owner, lessee, bailee or any one of the aforesaid if 17 a commercial motor vehicle shall be subject to a fine of not less than 18 four hundred fifty dollars nor more than twelve hundred fifty dollars. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD00369-02-6
