STATE OF NEW YORK
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547--A
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY(Prefiled)
January 6, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. STECK, BRONSON, CAHILL, ENGLEBRIGHT, FAHY,
GUNTHER, PALMESANO, SIMON, WOERNER, GOTTFRIED, QUART, EPSTEIN,
GALLAGHER, SEAWRIGHT, BARNWELL, CLARK, MAMDANI, FORREST, RAJKUMAR,
OTIS, THIELE, GLICK, FRONTUS, CRUZ, GRIFFIN, DE LOS SANTOS, CARROLL,
DINOWITZ -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation
-- recommitted to the Committee on Transportation in accordance with
Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to operators of
a vehicle overtaking a bicycle from behind
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 1122-a of the vehicle and traffic law, as added by
2 chapter 413 of the laws of 2010, is amended to read as follows:
3 § 1122-a. Overtaking a bicycle. [The] For cities having a population
4 of less than one million and towns and villages, the operator of a vehi-
5 cle overtaking, from behind, a bicycle proceeding on the same side of a
6 roadway shall pass to the left of such bicycle at a [safe] distance of
7 not less than three feet until safely clear thereof.
8 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
9 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD03980-02-2
