S06683 Summary:

BILL NOS06683A
 
SAME ASNo Same As
 
SPONSORMANNION
 
COSPNSR
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Amd 1621, V & T L
 
Requires the department of transportation to provide a list of legal clearance heights for bridges to owners or operators of trucks, commercial vehicles, tractors, tractor-trailer combinations, tractor-semitrailer combinations, or tractor-trailer-semitrailer combinations.
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S06683 Actions:

BILL NOS06683A
 
05/04/2023REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION
01/03/2024REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION
03/18/2024AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO TRANSPORTATION
03/18/2024PRINT NUMBER 6683A
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S06683 Committee Votes:

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S06683 Floor Votes:

There are no votes for this bill in this legislative session.
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S06683 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                         6683--A
 
                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                       May 4, 2023
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sen. MANNION -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation  --  recom-
          mitted  to  the  Committee on Transportation in accordance with Senate
          Rule  6,  sec.  8  --  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 requiring
          the department of transportation to provide a list of legal  clearance
          heights for bridges to certain drivers
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. Subdivision (c) of section 1621 of the vehicle and  traffic
     2  law,  as  amended by chapter 420 of the laws of 1968, is amended to read
     3  as follows:
     4    (c) Such department of transportation shall cause signs to be  erected
     5  to  inform  persons  of the legal overhead clearance for all bridges and
     6  elevated structures on highways under its jurisdiction. The legal clear-
     7  ance shall be one foot less than the measured  clearance.  The  measured
     8  clearance  shall  be the minimum height to the bridge or structure meas-
     9  ured vertically from the traveled portion of the roadway.  On bridges or
    10  structures having fourteen feet or more of measured clearance,  no  such
    11  signs  shall  be required.  The department of transportation shall cause
    12  to inform and furnish to an owner  or  operator  of  trucks,  commercial
    13  vehicles,  tractors,  tractor-trailer  combinations, tractor-semitrailer
    14  combinations, or tractor-trailer-semitrailer combinations a list of each
    15  legal clearance height for all bridges and elevated structures on  high-
    16  ways under its jurisdiction.
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect June 1, 2025.
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11165-02-4
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