STATE OF NEW YORK
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3912
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 30, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. BRONSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to the use of
hazard lights when traveling at certain speeds
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision (e) of section 1163 of the vehicle and traffic
2 law, as added by chapter 388 of the laws of 1970, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 (e) The driver of a vehicle equipped with simultaneously flashing
5 signals as provided for in subdivision eighteen-a of section three
6 hundred seventy-five of this chapter shall use such signals when (i) the
7 vehicle is stopped or disabled on a public highway, except when such
8 vehicle is stopped in compliance with a traffic-control device or when
9 legally parked; or (ii) when the driver is operating the vehicle at a
10 speed slower than or equal to fifteen miles per hour below the posted
11 maximum speed limit. The driver of a vehicle so equipped may use such
12 signals whenever necessary to warn the operators of following vehicles
13 of the presence of a traffic hazard ahead of the signaling vehicle, or
14 to warn the operators of other vehicles that the signaling vehicle may
15 itself constitute a traffic hazard, taking into account traffic and
16 highway conditions. No person shall use such signals for any other
17 purpose.
18 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
19 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD06035-01-5
