Bill Text: NY S06683 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the department of transportation to provide a list of legal clearance heights for bridges to owners or operators of trucks, commercial vehicles, tractors, tractor-trailer combinations, tractor-semitrailer combinations, or tractor-trailer-semitrailer combinations.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-03-18 - PRINT NUMBER 6683A [S06683 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6683

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       May 4, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. MANNION -- 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  requiring
          the  department of transportation to provide a list of legal clearance
          heights for bridges to certain drivers

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1. Subdivision (c) of section 1621 of the vehicle and traffic
     2  law, as amended by chapter 420 of the laws of 1968, is amended  to  read
     3  as follows:
     4    (c)  Such department of transportation shall cause signs to be erected
     5  to inform persons of the legal overhead clearance for  all  bridges  and
     6  elevated structures on highways under its jurisdiction. The legal clear-
     7  ance  shall  be  one foot less than the measured clearance. The measured
     8  clearance shall be the minimum height to the bridge or  structure  meas-
     9  ured vertically from the traveled portion of the roadway.  On bridges or
    10  structures  having  fourteen feet or more of measured clearance, no such
    11  signs shall be required.  The department of transportation  shall  cause
    12  to  inform  and  furnish  to  an owner or operator of trucks, commercial
    13  vehicles, tractors,  tractor-trailer  combinations,  tractor-semitrailer
    14  combinations, or tractor-trailer-semitrailer combinations a list of each
    15  legal  clearance height for all bridges and elevated structures on high-
    16  ways under its jurisdiction.
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect June 1, 2024.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11165-01-3