Bill Text: NY S08021 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 8021 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Prohibits drivers of a bus, taxi or livery from using hands-free mobile telephones; provides for certain exceptions.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-20 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S08021 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S08021-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          8021

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 20, 2022
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. HOYLMAN -- 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  drivers  of
          buses, taxis and livery vehicles using hands-free mobile telephones

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 1225-c of the vehicle and  traffic
     2  law is amended by adding a new paragraph (e) to read as follows:
     3    (e)  No  driver of a bus, livery or taxi shall use a hands-free mobile
     4  telephone while operating a moving bus or motor vehicle  except  in  the
     5  case  of  an emergency pursuant to paragraph (a) of subdivision three of
     6  this section or if such hands-free mobile telephone is used for dispatch
     7  or if the bus or motor vehicle is parked, for purposes other than  drop-
     8  ping  off  or  picking  up  passengers, at the side of, or off, a public
     9  highway in a location where such vehicle  is  not  otherwise  prohibited
    10  from  stopping by law, rule, regulation or any lawful order or direction
    11  of a police officer.
    12    § 2. Subdivision 3 of section 1225-c of the vehicle and  traffic  law,
    13  as  added  by  chapter  69  of  the  laws of 2001, is amended to read as
    14  follows:
    15    3. Subdivision two of this section shall not apply to (a) the use of a
    16  mobile telephone for the sole purpose of communicating with any  of  the
    17  following regarding an emergency situation: an emergency response opera-
    18  tor;  a  hospital,  physician's  office  or  health clinic; an ambulance
    19  company or corps; a fire department, district or company;  or  a  police
    20  department, (b) any of the following persons while in the performance of
    21  their  official duties: a police officer or peace officer; a member of a
    22  fire department, district or company; or the operator of  an  authorized
    23  emergency vehicle as defined in section one hundred one of this chapter,
    24  or (c) the use of a hands-free mobile telephone, except in the case of a
    25  driver operating a bus, taxi or livery.
    26    §  3.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
    27  have become a law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01968-01-1