Expands the definition of bus to include those owned by public or governmental agency, pre-school, nursery school or private school or privately owned and operated for compensation for the transportation of children less than school age, teachers and other persons to and from a pre-school, nursery school or school activities.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY(Prefiled)
January 4, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. GANTT -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to expanding
the definition of bus
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 509-a of the vehicle and traffic
2 law, as amended by chapter 853 of the laws of 1992, is amended to read
3 as follows:
4 (1) bus shall mean every motor vehicle, owned, leased, rented or
5 otherwise controlled by a motor carrier, which (a) is a school bus (i)
6 as defined in section one hundred forty-two of this chapter [or]; (ii)
7 which is owned by a public or governmental agency, pre-school, nursery
8 school or private school and operated for the transportation of children
9 less than school age, teachers and other persons acting in a supervisory
10 capacity, to and from a pre-school, nursery school or school activities
11 or privately owned and operated for compensation for the transportation
12 of children less than school age, teachers and other persons acting in a
13 supervisory capacity to or from a pre-school, nursery school or school
14 activities pursuant to an agreement with such public or governmental
15 agency, pre-school or nursery school; or (iii) has a seating capacity of
16 more than ten adult passengers in addition to the driver and which is
17 used for the transportation of persons under the age of twenty-one or
18 persons of any age who are mentally or physically disabled to a place of
19 vocational, academic or religious instruction or religious service
20 including nursery schools, day care centers and camps, (b) is required
21 to obtain approval to operate in the state as a common or contract
22 carrier of passengers by motor vehicle from the commissioner of trans-
23 portation, or the interstate commerce commission, (c) is regulated as a
24 bus line by a city that has adopted an ordinance, local law or charter
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 to regulate or franchise bus line operations pursuant to subdivision
2 four of section eighty of the transportation law, (d) is regulated as a
3 van service or other common carrier of passengers by motor vehicle
4 covered under article seven of the transportation law by a city with a
5 population of over one million pursuant to an ordinance or local law
6 adopted pursuant to subdivision five of section eighty of the transpor-
7 tation law or (e) is operated by a transit authority or municipality and
8 is used to transport persons for hire. Provided, however, that bus shall
9 not mean an authorized emergency vehicle operated in the course of an
10 emergency, or a motor vehicle used in the transportation of agricultural
11 workers to and from their place of employment;
12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
13 it shall have become a law.
