Bill Text: NY S01362 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Extends the maximum length of specialized material delivery vehicles to forty-five feet.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-06-20 - RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY [S01362 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-S01362-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        1362--A
           Cal. No. 23
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                    January 6, 2011
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       Introduced  by Sens. DILAN, YOUNG -- 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  --  reported  favorably  from  said  committee,
         ordered to first and second report, ordered to a third reading, passed
         by  Senate and delivered to the Assembly, recalled, vote reconsidered,
         restored to third reading, amended and  ordered  reprinted,  retaining
         its place in the order of third reading
       AN  ACT  to  amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to extending
         the maximum length of vehicles
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 3 of section 385 of the vehi-
    2  cle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 173 of the laws of  1990,  is
    3  amended to read as follows:
    4    (a)  The  length  of  a single vehicle, inclusive of load and bumpers,
    5  shall be not more than forty feet  unless  otherwise  provided  in  this
    6  subdivision.   FOR SPECIALIZED MATERIAL DELIVERY VEHICLES, WHICH INCLUDE
    7  ARTICULATING BOOM TRUCKS AND PIGGY-BACK TRUCKS  (FLAT  BED  TRUCKS  WITH
    8  FORKLIFTS  OR MOTIFS ATTACHED), THE LENGTH OF A SINGLE VEHICLE, MEASURED
    9  FROM BUMPER TO BUMPER, SHALL NOT  BE  MORE  THAN  FORTY  FEET;  HOWEVER,
   10  PROVIDED THAT THE OPERATOR OF THE VEHICLE IS A CDL OPERATOR, THE VEHICLE
   11  CAN  HAVE  AN ADDITIONAL FIVE FEET OF OVERHANG, FOR A TOTAL LENGTH OF NO
   12  MORE THAN FORTY-FIVE FEET. OVERHANG IS DEFINED AS THE PORTION OF A VEHI-
   13  CLE THAT EXTENDS BEYOND THE REAR BUMPER OR THE PORTION OF A BOOM,  FORK-
   14  LIFT OR OTHER DEVICE THAT EXTENDS BEYOND THE REAR BUMPER.
   15    S  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
   16  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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