Senate Bill S5440

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Prohibits the use of parking lanes to overtake vehicles on the right

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Transportation Committee

  • 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-S5440 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1123, V & T L
Versions Introduced in 2017-2018 Legislative Session:
S5128

2015-S5440 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits the use of parking lanes to overtake vehicles on the right.

2015-S5440 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2015-S5440 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  5440

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                              May 14, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  AVELLA -- 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  prohibiting
  the use of parking lanes to overtake vehicles on the right

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

  Section 1. Section 1123 of the vehicle and  traffic  law,  subdivision
(b) as amended by chapter 162 of the laws of 1990, is amended to read as
follows:
  S 1123. When overtaking on the right is permitted. (a) The driver of a
vehicle  may  overtake  and  pass upon the right of another vehicle only
under the following conditions:
  1. When the vehicle overtaken is making or about to make a left turn;
  2. Upon a street or highway with unobstructed pavement not occupied by
parked vehicles of sufficient width for two  or  more  lines  of  moving
vehicles in each direction;
  3.  Upon  a  one-way  street,  or upon any roadway on which traffic is
restricted to one direction of movement, where the roadway is free  from
obstructions  and  of  sufficient  width for two or more lines of moving
vehicles.
  (b) The driver of a vehicle may overtake and pass another vehicle upon
the right only under conditions  permitting  such  movement  in  safety.
Such  movement  shall  not  be made by driving off the pavement or main-
traveled portion of the roadway, except as permitted by  section  eleven
hundred thirty-one of this article OR BY USING A PARKING LANE.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD11067-01-5

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