STATE OF NEW YORK
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9988
IN ASSEMBLY
April 30, 2012
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Introduced by M. of A. J. MILLER -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to requiring
drivers of vehicles to yield the right of way of drivers who are
attempting to exit certain parking spaces
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "safe exit
2 act".
3 § 2. Subdivision (a) of section 1211 of the vehicle and traffic law,
4 as amended by chapter 653 of the laws of 1964, is amended to read as
5 follows:
6 (a) The driver of a vehicle shall not back the same unless such move-
7 ment can be made with safety and without interfering with other traffic
8 provided however, a driver of a vehicle approaching a parking space,
9 which is part of a row of parking spaces, where another driver is
10 attempting to exit such parking space at an appropriate speed and has an
11 apparent limited view of approaching traffic, shall yield the right of
12 way to the vehicle attempting to exit such parking space.
13 § 3. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
14 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD15077-08-2
