STATE OF NEW YORK
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4113
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 31, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. HYNDMAN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to permitting
certain funeral service vehicles and other vehicles to use high occu-
pancy vehicle lanes
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 "Nina's Law".
2 § 2. The vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a new section
3 1106 to read as follows:
4 § 1106. Funeral motorcades and funeral service vehicles. For the
5 purposes of this title:
6 (a) a person may disregard an official traffic-control device govern-
7 ing the number of occupants required to be in a vehicle for such vehicle
8 to be in the designated lane when such person is operating a vehicle as
9 part of a funeral motorcade going to or returning from a house of
10 worship, funeral home, crematorium, or cemetery.
11 (b) a person may disregard an official traffic-control device govern-
12 ing the number of occupants required to be in a vehicle for such vehicle
13 to be in the designated lane when such person is operating a funeral
14 service vehicle in such person's capacity as an agent of a house of
15 worship, funeral home, crematorium, or cemetery.
16 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD08117-01-5
