Enacts "Todd's law"; mandates that tow truck operators light emergency flares when providing assistance on public highways, streets or roadways.

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A9447-2011 Actions

• Mar 1, 2012: referred to transportation

A9447-2011 Text

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

                                    9447

                            I N  ASSEMBLY

                                March 1, 2012
                                 ___________

  Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ROBERTS,  FINCH,  LINARES, WEISENBERG, COOK,
    WEPRIN, CASTRO, BOYLAND -- Multi-Sponsored by  --  M.  of  A.  ARROYO,
    CALHOUN,  P. RIVERA,  SCARBOROUGH, STEVENSON -- read once and referred
    to the Committee on Transportation

  AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in  relation  to  requiring
    tow  truck  operators to light emergency flares when providing assist-
    ance on public highways, streets or roadways

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


    Section  1.  Short  title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
  "Todd's law".
    S 2. The vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding  a  new  section
  1224-a to read as follows:

    S  1224-A.  USE OF EMERGENCY FLARES BY TOW TRUCK OPERATORS. ANY PERSON
  OPERATING A TOW TRUCK AS DEFINED IN SECTION ONE HUNDRED FORTY-EIGHT-B OF
  THIS CHAPTER WHO IN THE REGULAR COURSE OF BUSINESS  PROVIDES  ASSISTANCE
  TO  A  DISABLED,  ILLEGALLY PARKED OR ABANDONED MOTOR VEHICLE OR A MOTOR
  VEHICLE INVOLVED IN AN ACCIDENT ON ANY HIGHWAY, STREET OR  ROADWAY  OPEN
  TO  PUBLIC MOTOR VEHICLE TRAFFIC, SHALL LIGHT A SERIES OF EMERGENCY ROAD
  FLARES EVERY ONE HUNDRED FEET BEGINNING APPROXIMATELY THREE HUNDRED FEET
  AWAY FROM THE REAR FENDER OF THE MOTOR VEHICLE REQUIRING  ASSISTANCE  UP
  TO THE FRONT FENDER OF THE TOW TRUCK. A VIOLATION OF THE REQUIREMENTS OF
  THIS  SECTION SHALL BE PUNISHABLE BY A FINE OF NOT LESS THAN TWO HUNDRED
  TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS.
    S 3. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
  have become a law.



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