Provides for the suspension of a commercial driver's license if a driver has been convicted of a violation of local laws relating to a designated system of truck routes.
NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A8339
SPONSOR: Cunningham TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to providing
for the suspension of a commercial driver's license if a driver has been
convicted of a violation of local laws relating to a designated system
of truck routes
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:
Provides for the suspension of a commercial driver's license if a driver
has been convicted of a violation of local laws relating to a designated
system of truck routes)
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section 1 adds paragraph f to subdivision 3 of section 510-a of the
vehicle and traffic law to include provisions allowing for a suspension
of a commercial license
Section 2 sets the effective date
JUSTIFICATION:
The increase of trucks on the road is one of the many contributing
factors to climate change, increases in respiratory illness, and air
pollution. One way that we can combat this is by ensuring the proximity
between these trucks and residential settings is being maintained. The
further away people are from the initial exposure site it helps to limit
how potent people's exposure is to the harmful chemicals released in the
truck's exhaust that lead to illness.
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
New bill.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS:
None.
EFFECTIVE DATE:
19 days after it is signed into law
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8339
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
December 13, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. CUNNINGHAM -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to providing
for the suspension of a commercial driver's license if a driver has
been convicted of a violation of local laws relating to a designated
system of truck routes
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 510-a of the vehicle and traffic
2 law is amended by adding a new paragraph (f) to read as follows:
3 (f) A commercial driver's license shall be suspended by the commis-
4 sioner:
5 (i) for a period of sixty days where the holder is convicted of a
6 violation of a local law, ordinance, order, rule or regulation enacted
7 by the legislative body of any city, village or town, pursuant to the
8 provisions of paragraph ten of subdivision (a) of section sixteen
9 hundred forty or paragraph ten of subdivision (a) of section sixteen
10 hundred sixty of this chapter.
11 (ii) for a period of one hundred twenty days where the holder is
12 convicted of a second violation of a local law, ordinance, order, rule
13 or regulation enacted by the legislative body of any city, village or
14 town, pursuant to the provisions of paragraph ten of subdivision (a) of
15 section sixteen hundred forty or paragraph ten of subdivision (a) of
16 section sixteen hundred sixty of this chapter, both of which were
17 committed within a three-year period.
18 (iii) for a period of one year where the holder is convicted of a
19 third violation of a local law, ordinance, order, rule or regulation
20 enacted by the legislative body of any city, village or town, pursuant
21 to the provisions of paragraph ten of subdivision (a) of section sixteen
22 hundred forty or paragraph ten of subdivision (a) of section sixteen
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 hundred sixty of this chapter, all of which were committed within a
2 three-year period.
3 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
4 have become a law.
