Permits small seasonal farmers to place signs on state highways. /
Sponsor: Tenney Committee: TRANSPORTATION

Relates to registering for the department of health's donate life registry when applying for a driver's license. /
Sponsor: Spano Committee: TRANSPORTATION

Requires the surfaces of non-commercial vehicles and commercial vehicles with a gross vehicle weight rating of ten thousand pounds or less to be cleared of accumulated snow, sleet or hail; exempts any automobile transporter, motorcycle or authorized emergency vehicle; imposes fines. /
Sponsor: Montesano Committee: TRANSPORTATION

Enacts "Steven's Law"; requires passengers of motor vehicles involved in personal injury accidents to report such accident when the operator of such motor vehicle does not stop or provide information to the injured party. /
Sponsor: O'MARA Committee: TRANSPORTATION

Directs the commissioner of motor vehicles to establish a yellow dot program under which the medical and emergency contact information of the occupants, aged 55 or older, of a motor vehicle is available to emergency personnel in the glove compartment. /
Sponsor: LANZA Committee: TRANSPORTATION

Allows wide-based single tires on certain vehicles. /
Sponsor: NOZZOLIO Committee: TRANSPORTATION

Establishes distinctive New York funeral director license places with proceeds to be deposited in the department of motor vehicles distinctive plate development fund. /
Sponsor: Finch Committee: TRANSPORTATION

Requires all-way stop signs erected at all intersections immediately surrounding a public or private school in a city with a population of 1 million or more. /
Sponsor: SAMPSON Committee: TRANSPORTATION

Requires county highway acquisitions to be made pursuant to the eminent domain procedure law. /
Sponsor: DEFRANCISCO Committee: TRANSPORTATION

Relates to signs on school buses; authorizes the commissioner of motor vehicles to promulgate any necessary rules and regulations. /
Sponsor: Destito Committee: TRANSPORTATION

Establishes the safe drivers act of 2011 relating to the use of portable electronic devices while operating a motor vehicle; relates to accident prevention courses and penalties for driving while using a portable electronic device. /
Sponsor: MARCELLINO Committee: TRANSPORTATION

Relates to accident and investigation reports and requires reports submitted to the commissioner of motor vehicles to include an enumeration of any convictions on the operating record of the operator of each motor vehicle involved in an accident. /
Sponsor: Hevesi Committee: TRANSPORTATION

Enacts Jason's Law; relates to programs that promote and protect the safety of truck drivers in New York state. /
Sponsor: Lopez P Committee: TRANSPORTATION

Eliminates the one time fifteen dollars service charge for distinctive license plates for volunteer firefighters. /
Sponsor: Molinaro Committee: TRANSPORTATION

Directs the New York state thruway authority to discontinue and remove the Yonkers toll plaza on the New York state thruway. /
Sponsor: Pretlow Committee: TRANSPORTATION

Relates to authorizing design-build contracts for transportation projects and sets forth a 2-step process for the selection thereof. /
Sponsor: Kolb Committee: TRANSPORTATION

Provides recourse for a person whose vehicle was wrongfully towed in a city with a population of one million or more against the parking violations bureau in such city or the responsible agent of such bureau by granting such person the right to appear before a panel of administrative law judges which shall be empowered to order the correction of records, the refund of any fee paid to release the wrongfully towed vehicle and the reimbursement of out-of-pocket expenses, including lost wages; defines the term "wrongful tow." /
Sponsor: Brennan Committee: TRANSPORTATION

Requires the date of manufacture to be imprinted on tires; provides exceptions for certain tires. /
Sponsor: ADDABBO Committee: TRANSPORTATION

Authorizes and directs the commissioner of transportation and the New York state thruway authority to implement a mileage-based exit numbering system along interstate highways located within the state. /
Sponsor: Ortiz Committee: TRANSPORTATION

Makes the owner of a vehicle used to pass or overtake a stopped school bus jointly liable with the operator thereof when such violation is captured on a camera or observed by a school bus driver; authorizes the use of photographic evidence in the prosecution of such infraction; includes within the class A misdemeanor of assault in the third degree, the causation of physical injury to another person while passing or overtaking a stopped school bus; includes within the class E felony of criminally negligent homicide, the causation of death to another person while passing or overtaking a stopped school bus. /
Sponsor: Spano Committee: TRANSPORTATION