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                                   6414
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               March 7, 2019
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 Introduced by M. of A. CRESPO -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Transportation
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to requiring
   the use of rear wheel guards on certain vehicles
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  This  act  shall  be known and may be cited as the "Amara
 Diarrassouba life saving truck guard law".
   § 2. Section 375 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a
 new subdivision 10-f to read as follows:
   10-F. EVERY TRUCK, TRACTOR, AND TRACTOR-TRAILER OR SEMITRAILER  COMBI-
 NATION  REGISTERED IN THIS STATE HAVING A GROSS VEHICLE WEIGHT RATING OF
 TWENTY-SIX THOUSAND POUNDS OR MORE, AND A CONVENTIONAL CAB CONFIGURATION
 IN WHICH MORE THAN HALF OF THE ENGINE LENGTH IS FORWARD OF THE  FOREMOST
 POINT  OF  THE  WINDSHIELD  BASE  AND  THE  STEERING WHEEL HUB IS IN THE
 FORWARD QUARTER OF THE VEHICLE LENGTH, WHENEVER OPERATED WITHIN  A  CITY
 HAVING  A POPULATION OF ONE MILLION OR MORE ON HIGHWAYS OTHER THAN CONT-
 ROLLED-ACCESS HIGHWAYS, SHALL BE EQUIPPED WITH REAR WHEEL GUARDS ON  THE
 REAR WHEELS OF SUCH VEHICLE OR COMBINATION OF VEHICLES.
   §  3.  This  act shall be deemed repealed if any federal agency or any
 court of competent jurisdiction finally determines that this  act  would
 render New York state ineligible for the receipt of federal funds.
   §  4.  Severability.  If any clause, sentence, subdivision, paragraph,
 section or part of this act be adjudged by any court of competent juris-
 diction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair or invali-
 date the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in  its  operation  to
 the  clause,  sentence,  subdivision, paragraph, section or part thereof
 directly involved in the controversy in which such judgment  shall  have
 been rendered.
   § 5. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it shall have become a law provided that the commissioner of the depart-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 ment  of  transportation  shall  notify  the  legislative  bill drafting
 commission upon the occurrence of the provisions  of  section  three  of
 this act in order that the commission may maintain an accurate data base
 of the official text of the laws of the state of New York in furtherance
 of  effecting  the  provisions  of section 44 of the legislative law and
 section 70-b of the public officers law.    Effective  immediately,  the
 addition,  amendment  and/or  repeal of any rule or regulation necessary
 for the implementation of this act on its effective date are  authorized
 and directed to be made and completed on or before such effective date.