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                                   2506
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 23, 2019
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 Introduced  by M. of A. GANTT -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in  relation  to  expanding
   the definition of bus
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 509-a of the vehicle  and  traffic
 law,  as  amended by chapter 853 of the laws of 1992, is amended to read
 as follows:
   (1) bus shall mean every  motor  vehicle,  owned,  leased,  rented  or
 otherwise  controlled  by a motor carrier, which (a) is a school bus (I)
 as defined in section one hundred forty-two of this chapter  [or];  (II)
 WHICH  IS  OWNED BY A PUBLIC OR GOVERNMENTAL AGENCY, PRE-SCHOOL, NURSERY
 SCHOOL OR PRIVATE SCHOOL AND OPERATED FOR THE TRANSPORTATION OF CHILDREN
 LESS THAN SCHOOL AGE, TEACHERS AND OTHER PERSONS ACTING IN A SUPERVISORY
 CAPACITY, TO AND FROM A PRE-SCHOOL, NURSERY SCHOOL OR SCHOOL  ACTIVITIES
 OR  PRIVATELY OWNED AND OPERATED FOR COMPENSATION FOR THE TRANSPORTATION
 OF CHILDREN LESS THAN SCHOOL AGE, TEACHERS AND OTHER PERSONS ACTING IN A
 SUPERVISORY CAPACITY TO OR FROM A PRE-SCHOOL, NURSERY SCHOOL  OR  SCHOOL
 ACTIVITIES  PURSUANT  TO  AN  AGREEMENT WITH SUCH PUBLIC OR GOVERNMENTAL
 AGENCY, PRE-SCHOOL OR NURSERY SCHOOL; OR (III) has a seating capacity of
 more than ten adult passengers in addition to the driver  and  which  is
 used  for  the  transportation of persons under the age of twenty-one or
 persons of any age who are mentally or physically disabled to a place of
 vocational, academic  or  religious  instruction  or  religious  service
 including  nursery  schools, day care centers and camps, (b) is required
 to obtain approval to operate in the  state  as  a  common  or  contract
 carrier  of  passengers by motor vehicle from the commissioner of trans-
 portation, or the interstate commerce commission, (c) is regulated as  a
 bus  line  by a city that has adopted an ordinance, local law or charter
 to regulate or franchise bus line  operations  pursuant  to  subdivision
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 four  of section eighty of the transportation law, (d) is regulated as a
 van service or other common  carrier  of  passengers  by  motor  vehicle
 covered  under  article seven of the transportation law by a city with a
 population  of  over  one  million pursuant to an ordinance or local law
 adopted pursuant to subdivision five of section eighty of the  transpor-
 tation law or (e) is operated by a transit authority or municipality and
 is used to transport persons for hire. Provided, however, that bus shall
 not  mean  an  authorized emergency vehicle operated in the course of an
 emergency, or a motor vehicle used in the transportation of agricultural
 workers to and from their place of employment;
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it shall have become a law.