Assembly Bill A10192

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to the operation of vehicles when approaching a parked, stopped or standing authorized emergency vehicle or hazard vehicle or vehicle displaying a blue or green light

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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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2023-A10192 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S187
Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§1144-a & 510, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S8196
2019-2020: S1332
2021-2022: S2270

2023-A10192 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the operation of vehicles when approaching a parked, stopped or standing authorized emergency vehicle or hazard vehicle or vehicle displaying a blue or green light; provides for mandatory revocation of a driver's license for a period of six months where a person violates section 1144-a of the vehicle and traffic law and causes serious physical injury or death to another person; directs the division of criminal justice services to establish a public information campaign to instruct the public that operating a motor vehicle when approaching a parked, stopped or standing authorized emergency vehicle or hazard vehicle or vehicle displaying a blue or green light that results in physical injury, serious physical injury or death as a result of the operator recklessly failing to exercise due care to avoid a collision can result in serious criminal penalties.

2023-A10192 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10192
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 10, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Tague) --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to  the  opera-
   tion  of  vehicles  when  approaching  a  parked,  stopped or standing
   authorized emergency vehicle or hazard vehicle or vehicle displaying a
   blue or green light

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Section 1144-a of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended
 by chapter 458 of the laws of 2011, the section heading as  amended  and
 subdivision  (c) as added by chapter 97 of the laws of 2016, subdivision
 (a) as amended by chapter 248 of the laws of 2013, and  subdivision  (b)
 as  amended  by   chapter 504 of the laws of 2022, is amended to read as
 follows:
   § 1144-a. Operation of vehicles when approaching a parked, stopped  or
 standing  authorized  emergency  vehicle  or  hazard  vehicle or vehicle
 displaying a blue or green light. (a) 1. Every operator of a motor vehi-
 cle shall exercise due care to avoid colliding with an authorized  emer-
 gency  vehicle  which  is parked, stopped or standing on the shoulder or
 any portion of such highway and such  authorized  emergency  vehicle  is
 displaying  one or more red or combination red and white lights pursuant
 to the provisions of paragraph two of subdivision forty-one  of  section
 three  hundred seventy-five of this chapter or is displaying one or more
 blue, combination blue and red or combination blue, red and white lights
 pursuant to the provisions of subparagraph b of paragraph four of subdi-
 vision forty-one of section three hundred seventy-five of this  chapter.
 For  operators  of motor vehicles on parkways or controlled access high-
 ways, such due care shall include, but not be limited to, moving from  a
 lane  which  contains  or  is immediately adjacent to the shoulder where
 such authorized emergency vehicle displaying one or more  red,  blue  or
 white  or any combination of red and white lights or blue or combination
 blue and red or combination blue, red and white lights pursuant  to  the
 provisions  of  paragraph  two  or  subparagraph b of paragraph four, as
 applicable of subdivision forty-one of section  three  hundred  seventy-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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