Bill Text: NY S02152 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Establishes the traffic infraction of interference with a funeral procession.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S02152 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S02152-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2152
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 22, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by Sen. GIANARIS -- 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 interference
          with a funeral procession
          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 1132 to read as follows:
     3    § 1132. Interference with a funeral procession. (a) The  driver  of  a
     4  motor vehicle shall not enter, drive between, obstruct, hinder or in any
     5  way  interfere with the vehicles constituting a funeral procession while
     6  such vehicles are in motion unless such motor vehicle is  part  of  such
     7  procession,  except when authorized to do so by a police officer or when
     8  such motor vehicle is an authorized emergency vehicle exhibiting a visi-
     9  ble signal and sounding an audible signal or  when  complying  with  the
    10  provisions of section eleven hundred forty-four-a of this title.
    11    (b)  Any  person operating a motor vehicle in violation of subdivision
    12  (a) of this section shall be guilty of a traffic infraction and  subject
    13  to  a  fine  of  not more than fifty dollars. The commissioner shall not
    14  assess any points against the license of a person found to have violated
    15  the provisions of subdivision (a) of this section.
    16    (c) No provision of this section shall be deemed to impose any liabil-
    17  ity for personal injury or damages resulting from a  violation  of  this
    18  section  upon a funeral firm or any person licensed or registered pursu-
    19  ant to article thirty-four of the public health law, or any employee  or
    20  agent thereof, when such firm, person, employee or agent is acting with-
    21  in  the  scope  of his, her or its duties.  However, any funeral firm or
    22  any person licensed or registered pursuant to article thirty-four of the
    23  public health law, or any employee or agent thereof, shall at all  times
    24  operate  motor vehicles in compliance with all standards of care imposed
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04058-01-9

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     1  to prevent such injuries or damages to persons and/or property of anoth-
     2  er.
     3    §  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect  on  the first of September next
     4  succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.
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