Bill Text: NY S01261 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that a motor vehicle will be considered to be in motion while stopped at traffic control devices, stop signs and certain other situations for purposes of mobile phones and other portable electronic devices violations.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-06-21 - referred to transportation [S01261 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S01261-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1261
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     January 6, 2017
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  MARCELLINO  -- read twice and ordered printed, and
          when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to the  use  of
          mobile phones and portable electronic devices while driving
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 1225-c of the vehicle and  traffic
     2  law is amended by adding a new paragraph (j) to read as follows:
     3    (j) "While such vehicle is in motion" shall mean:
     4    (i) any time a motor vehicle is moving;
     5    (ii)  any  time  a  motor  vehicle is stopped at a traffic light, stop
     6  sign, railroad crossing or any other traffic control device requiring  a
     7  motor vehicle to stop; or
     8    (iii)  any  time  a  motor vehicle is stopped because of heavy traffic
     9  congestion of a traffic jam.
    10    § 2. Subdivision 2 of section 1225-d of the vehicle and traffic law is
    11  amended by adding a new paragraph (e) to read as follows:
    12    (e) "While such vehicle is in motion" shall mean:
    13    (i) any time a motor vehicle is moving;
    14    (ii) any time a motor vehicle is stopped  at  a  traffic  light,  stop
    15  sign,  railroad crossing or any other traffic control device requiring a
    16  motor vehicle to stop; or
    17    (iii) any time a motor vehicle is stopped  because  of  heavy  traffic
    18  congestion of a traffic jam.
    19    §  3.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
    20  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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