Assembly Bill A9483

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to restrictions on class DJ and MJ licenses in the counties of Nassau and Suffolk

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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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2021-A9483 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8548
Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §501, V & T L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A1487, S2157

2021-A9483 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to restrictions on class DJ and MJ licenses in the counties of Nassau and Suffolk by permitting such licensees to drive to and from school between the hours of five in the morning to nine o'clock in the evening.

2021-A9483 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9483
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               March 7, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Transportation
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  vehicle  and  traffic  law,  in relation to the
   restrictions on class DJ and class MJ  licenses  in  the  counties  of
   Nassau  and  Suffolk by permitting such licensees to drive to and from
   school between the hours of five in the morning to nine o'clock in the
   evening

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  3  of section 501 of the vehicle and traffic
 law, as added by chapter 449 of the laws of 1989, the subdivision  head-
 ing  and  first  undesignated paragraph as amended by chapter 173 of the
 laws of 1990 and subparagraph (ii) of paragraph (b) as amended by  chap-
 ter 644 of the laws of 2002, is amended to read as follows:
   3.  Restrictions  on use of class DJ and class MJ licenses. A class DJ
 or class MJ license shall permit the holder  to  operate  a  vehicle  in
 accordance with the following restrictions:
   (a) in the counties of Nassau and Suffolk:
   (i)  for  the  purpose of driving to and from a state-approved cooper-
 ative work-study educational program, or to or from an approved  program
 for  credit  in  a post-secondary institution, or to or from a state-ap-
 proved registered evening high school or while engaged in  farm  employ-
 ment, or to or from an approved driver education course; or
   (ii)  from five o'clock in the morning to nine o'clock in the evening,
 WHEN GOING TO OR FROM SCHOOL, OR to and from a place of  business  where
 the holder is regularly employed, or when accompanied by a duly licensed
 parent,  guardian,  person in a position of loco parentis, driver educa-
 tion teacher, or driving school instructor.
   (b) in all other areas of the state, except for the city of New York:
   (i) from five o'clock in the morning to nine o'clock in  the  evening;
 or
   (ii)  from  nine o'clock in the evening to five o'clock in the morning
 when going to or from school, or to or from a place  of  business  where
 the  holder is employed on a regularly scheduled basis, or when accompa-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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