Bill Text: NY S04714 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Allows for the use of green lights or alternating green and amber lights on municipal vehicles being used for snow removal.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S04714 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S04714-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4714 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE March 21, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. KENNEDY -- 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 green lights on municipal vehicles The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 41 of section 375 of the vehicle and traffic 2 law is amended by adding a new paragraph 5-a to read as follows: 3 5-a. Green light or alternating green and amber light. Green lights or 4 alternating green and amber lights may be affixed to any motor vehicle 5 owned by the state or any municipality engaged in the removal of ice, 6 snow, or other material the from highway or roadway and in other oper- 7 ations designed to control snow and ice. 8 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD07843-01-9