Requires a sign on the rear of every vehicle or combination of vehicles consisting of a tractor and two or more trailers or semi-trailers in letters readable from a distance of five hundred feet a notice indicating that such vehicle combination is of excessive length; excludes vehicles or trailers not exceeding 28.5 feet in length.

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A3620-2011 Actions

• Jan 4, 2012: referred to transportation
• Jan 26, 2011: referred to transportation

A3620-2011 Text

                      S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
  ________________________________________________________________________

                                    3620

                         2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                            I N  ASSEMBLY

                              January 26, 2011
                                 ___________

  Introduced  by M. of A. CLARK -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BRENNAN,
    GALEF, HOOPER -- read once and referred to the Committee on  Transpor-
    tation

  AN  ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to vehicles or
    combinations of vehicles exceeding maximum dimension and weight  limi-
    tations

    THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
  BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


    Section 1. Section 375 of the vehicle and traffic law  is  amended  by
  adding a new subdivision 52 to read as follows:

    52.  EVERY VEHICLE COMBINATION CONSISTING OF A TRACTOR AND TWO OR MORE
  TRAILERS OR SEMI-TRAILERS SHALL HAVE POSTED AT THE REAR THEREOF  A  SIGN
  INDICATING,  IN  LETTERS  OF  A  SIZE  READABLE  FROM A DISTANCE OF FIVE
  HUNDRED FEET, THAT SUCH VEHICLE  COMBINATION  IS  OF  EXCESSIVE  LENGTH.
  PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SUBDIVISION SHALL NOT APPLY TO
  ANY  TRAILER  OR SEMI-TRAILER BEING OPERATED IN COMBINATION WITH ANOTHER
  TRAILER OR SEMI-TRAILER AND NOT EXCEEDING TWENTY-EIGHT AND ONE-HALF FEET
  IN LENGTH.
    S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.




   EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                        [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                             LBD06647-01-1