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                                   10213
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 26, 2018
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 Introduced by M. of A. McDONALD -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Transportation
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to the color
   and visibility of signs on school buses
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subparagraph 1 of paragraph (b) and paragraph (c) of subdi-
 vision  20 of section 375 of the vehicle and traffic law, subparagraph 1
 of paragraph (b) as amended by chapter 242 of the laws of 1992 and para-
 graph (c) as amended by chapter 96 of the laws of 1973, are  amended  to
 read as follows:
   (1) In addition to such signal lamps, two signs shall be conspicuously
 displayed  on  the  exterior  of  every such omnibus designating it as a
 school omnibus by the use of the  words  "SCHOOL  BUS"  which  shall  be
 painted  or  otherwise  inscribed  thereon  in [black letters] LETTERING
 COLORED BLACK OR MADE IN A REFLECTIVE  MATERIAL  APPROVED  FOR  USE  FOR
 OMNIBUSES  BY  THE COMMISSIONER SO LONG AS SAID MATERIAL IS VISIBLE FROM
 AT LEAST FIVE HUNDRED FEET DISTANT.  Such letters shall  be  of  uniform
 size,  at  least  eight inches in height, and each stroke of each letter
 shall be not less than one inch in width.  The background of  each  such
 sign  shall  be  painted  OR  OTHERWISE  APPLIED  IN  the color known as
 "national school bus chrome." For each such  omnibus  having  a  seating
 capacity  in  excess  of  fifteen children, such signs shall be securely
 mounted on top of such vehicle, one of which shall  be  affixed  on  the
 front  and one on the rear thereof. For each such omnibus having a seat-
 ing capacity of not more than fifteen  children,  such  signs  shall  be
 securely  mounted  on  top  of such vehicle, one of which shall face the
 front and one of which shall face the rear thereof. Each such sign shall
 be visible and readable from a point at least two hundred feet distant.
   (c) In the event such vehicle is operated on a public  highway  during
 the  period  between one-half hour after sunset and one-half hour before
 sunrise, the signs required by paragraph (b) of this  subdivision  shall
 be [illuminated as to be visible from a point at least five hundred feet
 distant]  CONSTRUCTED  AS  TO BE VISIBLE FROM AT LEAST FIVE HUNDRED FEET
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 A. 10213                            2
 
 DISTANT, EITHER BY ILLUMINATION OR BY REFLECTIVE  MATERIAL  APPROVED  BY
 THE  COMMISSIONER  AS AUTHORIZED IN SUBPARAGRAPH ONE OF PARAGRAPH (B) OF
 THIS SUBDIVISION.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law. Effective  immediately,  the  commissioner  of  motor
 vehicles is authorized to promulgate any necessary rules and regulations
 for the implementation of this act.