Assembly Bill A10706

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Requires operators of motor vehicles to reduce their speed when approaching and passing mobile ice cream vendor vehicles

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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-A10706 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1180, V & T L
Versions Introduced in 2025-2026 Legislative Session:
A3540

2023-A10706 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires operators of motor vehicles to reduce their speed when approaching and passing mobile ice cream vendor vehicles when such vendor vehicle is parked and in active operation.

2023-A10706 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10706
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              August 28, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Santabar-
   bara) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in  relation  to  requiring
   operators  of motor vehicles to reduce speed when passing an ice cream
   truck
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Subdivision (e) of section 1180 of the vehicle and traffic
 law, as amended by chapter 293 of the laws of 2016, is amended  to  read
 as follows:
   (e)  The  driver  of every vehicle shall, consistent with the require-
 ments of subdivision (a)  of  this  section,  drive  at  an  appropriate
 reduced  speed  when approaching and crossing an intersection or railway
 grade  crossing,  when  approaching  and  going  around  a  curve,  when
 approaching  a  hill crest, when approaching and passing by an emergency
 situation involving any authorized emergency vehicle  which  is  parked,
 stopped or standing on a highway and which is displaying one or more red
 or combination red, white, and/or blue lights pursuant to the provisions
 of  paragraph  two  and  subparagraph b of paragraph four of subdivision
 forty-one of section three hundred seventy-five of  this  chapter,  when
 traveling upon any narrow or winding roadway, WHEN APPROACHING AND PASS-
 ING  BY  A  MOBILE  ICE  CREAM VENDOR VEHICLE THAT IS PARKED, STOPPED OR
 STANDING ON THE SHOULDER OR ON ANY PORTION OF THE  ROADWAY  DURING  SUCH
 VEHICLE'S  HOURS  OF  OPERATION, and when any special hazard exists with
 respect to pedestrians, or other traffic by reason of weather or highway
 conditions, including, but not limited  to  a  highway  construction  or
 maintenance  work  area,  or  when approaching a hazard vehicle which is
 parked, stopped or standing on the shoulder or on any  portion  of  such
 highway  and  such hazard vehicle is displaying one or more amber lights
 pursuant to the provisions of paragraph three of  subdivision  forty-one
 of section three hundred seventy-five of this chapter.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD15994-01-4

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