Senate Bill S1685

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Enacts the "crash zone safety act"

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2015-S1685 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Finance
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Add §§114-e, 224-b & 1809-f, Art 11 §389, amd §§502, 510, 1180 & 1680, V & T L; add §§120.63, 120.65, 125.65 & 145.28, Pen L; add §85, St Fin L
Versions Introduced in 2013-2014 Legislative Session:
S7782

2015-S1685 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Enacts the "crash zone safety act"; establishes a speed limit which is 20 miles per hour less than the posted speed limit at and near the scene of an emergency; establishes enhanced penalties and surcharges for violations thereof; requires the establishment of a public and driver education program relating to such provisions

2015-S1685 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2015-S1685 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                  1685

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            January 14, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  LIBOUS -- 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, the penal law and the state
  finance law, in relation to enacting the "crash zone safety act"

  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
the "crash zone safety act".
  S 2. The vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding  a  new  section
114-e to read as follows:
  S  114-E. EMERGENCY ZONE. THAT DISTANCE ALONG A HIGHWAY EXTENDING FIVE
HUNDRED FEET OF LONGITUDINAL DISTANCE WITH THE FLOW OF TRAFFIC AND VISI-
BILITY FROM THE REAR OF AN AUTHORIZED EMERGENCY VEHICLE, HAZARD  VEHICLE
OR VOLUNTEER FIRST RESPONDER WHICH IS PARKED, STOPPED OR STANDING ON THE
SHOULDER  OR  ANY PORTION OF SUCH HIGHWAY WHILE SUCH VEHICLE OPERATED IN
THE COURSE OF RESPONDING TO AN  EMERGENCY  AND  WHILE  SUCH  VEHICLE  IS
DISPLAYING  ONE OR MORE RED OR COMBINATION RED AND WHITE LIGHTS PURSUANT
TO THE PROVISIONS OF PARAGRAPH TWO AND SUBPARAGRAPH B OF PARAGRAPH  FOUR
OF  SUBDIVISION  FORTY-ONE OF SECTION THREE HUNDRED SEVENTY-FIVE OF THIS
CHAPTER, OR ONE OR MORE AMBER LIGHTS  PURSUANT  TO  PARAGRAPH  THREE  OF
SUBDIVISION  FORTY-ONE  OF  SECTION  THREE  HUNDRED SEVENTY-FIVE OF THIS
CHAPTER, OR A BLUE LIGHT PURSUANT TO SUBPARAGRAPH A OF PARAGRAPH FOUR OF
SUBDIVISION FORTY-ONE OF SECTION  THREE  HUNDRED  SEVENTY-FIVE  OF  THIS
CHAPTER,  OR  A  GREEN  LIGHT  PURSUANT TO PARAGRAPH FIVE OF SUBDIVISION
FORTY-ONE OF SECTION THREE HUNDRED SEVENTY-FIVE OF THIS  CHAPTER,  TO  A
POINT FIVE HUNDRED FEET PAST ANY SUCH VEHICLE, OR FIVE HUNDRED FEET PAST
AN  EMERGENCY ZONE SIGN TO A POINT FIVE HUNDRED FEET PAST ANY SUCH VEHI-
CLE, WHICHEVER SHALL BE A GREATER DISTANCE.
  S 3. The vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding  a  new  section
224-b to read as follows:

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD07237-01-5

              

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