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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         2318--B
            Cal. No. 826
 
                               2013-2014 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                    January 15, 2013
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sen.  DeFRANCISCO -- read twice and ordered printed, and
          when printed to be committed to the  Committee  on  Transportation  --
          committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
          recommitted to said committee -- reported favorably from said  commit-

          tee,  ordered  to first and second report, ordered to a third reading,
          passed by Senate and delivered to the Assembly, recalled, vote  recon-
          sidered,  restored  to  third  reading, amended and ordered reprinted,
          retaining its place in the order of third reading
 
        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
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1. Subdivision (a) of section 1144-a of the vehicle and traf-
     2  fic law, as amended by chapter 458 of the laws of 2011,  is  amended  to
     3  read as follows:
     4    (a) Every operator of a motor vehicle shall exercise due care to avoid

     5  colliding  with an authorized emergency vehicle which is parked, stopped
     6  or standing on the shoulder or any portion  of  such  highway  and  such
     7  authorized  emergency  vehicle is displaying one or more red or combina-
     8  tion red and white lights pursuant to the provisions of paragraph two of
     9  subdivision forty-one of section  three  hundred  seventy-five  of  this
    10  chapter  or  is displaying one or more blue, combination blue and red or
    11  combination blue, red and white lights pursuant  to  the  provisions  of
    12  subparagraph  b  of  paragraph  four of subdivision forty-one of section
    13  three hundred seventy-five of this chapter.    For  operators  of  motor
    14  vehicles  on parkways or controlled access highways, such due care shall
    15  include, but not be limited to, moving from a lane which contains or  is

    16  immediately  adjacent  to  the  shoulder where such authorized emergency
    17  vehicle displaying one or more red, blue or white or any combination  of
    18  red  and white lights or blue or combination blue and red or combination
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04029-05-3
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     1  blue, red and white lights pursuant to the provisions of  paragraph  two
     2  or  subparagraph  b  of  paragraph  four,  as  applicable of subdivision
     3  forty-one of section three  hundred  seventy-five  of  this  chapter  is
     4  parked, stopped or standing to another lane, provided that such movement

     5  otherwise  complies with the requirements of this chapter including, but
     6  not limited to, the provisions of sections eleven hundred  ten  of  this
     7  title and eleven hundred twenty-eight of this title.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.