Bill Text: NY S05128 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits the use of parking lanes to overtake vehicles on the right.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S05128 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S05128-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5128
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                      March 9, 2017
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  AVELLA -- 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  prohibiting
          the use of parking lanes to overtake vehicles on the right
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 1123 of the vehicle and  traffic  law,  subdivision
     2  (b) as amended by chapter 162 of the laws of 1990, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    § 1123. When overtaking on the right is permitted. (a) The driver of a
     5  vehicle  may  overtake  and  pass upon the right of another vehicle only
     6  under the following conditions:
     7    1. When the vehicle overtaken is making or about to make a left turn;
     8    2. Upon a street or highway with unobstructed pavement not occupied by
     9  parked vehicles of sufficient width for two  or  more  lines  of  moving
    10  vehicles in each direction;
    11    3.  Upon  a  one-way  street,  or upon any roadway on which traffic is
    12  restricted to one direction of movement, where the roadway is free  from
    13  obstructions  and  of  sufficient  width for two or more lines of moving
    14  vehicles.
    15    (b) The driver of a vehicle may overtake and pass another vehicle upon
    16  the right only under conditions  permitting  such  movement  in  safety.
    17  Such  movement  shall  not  be made by driving off the pavement or main-
    18  traveled portion of the roadway, or by using a parking lane,  except  as
    19  permitted by section eleven hundred thirty-one of this article.
    20    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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