Senate Bill S1960

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Requires drivers to use four-way flashers when traveling at speeds equal to or slower than fifteen miles per hour below the posted maximum speed limit

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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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2009-S1960 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A3115
Current Committee:
Senate Codes
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง1163, V & T L

2009-S1960 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires drivers to use four-way flashers when traveling at speeds equal to or slower than fifteen miles per hour below the posted maximum speed limit.

2009-S1960 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-S1960 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  1960

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            February 10, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  STACHOWSKI  -- 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 the  use  of
  hazard lights when traveling at certain speeds

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

  Section 1. Subdivision (e) of section 1163 of the vehicle and  traffic
law,  as added by chapter 388 of the laws of 1970, is amended to read as
follows:
  (e) The driver of a  vehicle  equipped  with  simultaneously  flashing
signals  as  provided  for  in  subdivision  eighteen-a of section three
hundred seventy-five OF THIS CHAPTER shall use such signals when (I) the
vehicle is stopped or disabled on a public  highway,  except  when  such
vehicle  is  stopped in compliance with a traffic-control device or when
legally parked; OR (II) WHEN THE DRIVER IS OPERATING THE  VEHICLE  AT  A
SPEED  SLOWER  THAN  OR EQUAL TO FIFTEEN MILES PER HOUR BELOW THE POSTED
MAXIMUM SPEED LIMIT.  The driver of a vehicle so equipped may  use  such
signals  whenever  necessary to warn the operators of following vehicles
of the presence of a traffic hazard ahead of the signaling  vehicle,  or
to  warn  the operators of other vehicles that the signaling vehicle may
itself constitute a traffic hazard,  taking  into  account  traffic  and
highway  conditions.  No  person  shall  use  such signals for any other
purpose.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
it shall have become a law.



 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD03173-01-9

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