STATE OF NEW YORK
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1573
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 15, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN, LUPARDO, MOSLEY, GOTTFRIED, JAFFEE,
ORTIZ, GALEF, ZEBROWSKI, SEAWRIGHT -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
SIMON -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to drivers of
school buses using hands-free mobile telephones
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 1225-c of the vehicle and traffic
2 law is amended by adding a new paragraph (e) to read as follows:
3 (e) No driver of a school bus as defined in section one hundred
4 forty-two of this chapter shall use a hands-free mobile telephone while
5 operating a school bus except in the case of an emergency pursuant to
6 paragraph (a) of subdivision three of this section or if the school bus
7 is parked, for purposes other than dropping off or picking up students,
8 at the side of, or off, a public highway in a location where such vehi-
9 cle is not otherwise prohibited from stopping by law, rule, regulation
10 or any lawful order or direction of a police officer.
11 § 2. Subdivision 3 of section 1225-c of the vehicle and traffic law,
12 as added by chapter 69 of the laws of 2001, is amended to read as
13 follows:
14 3. Subdivision two of this section shall not apply to (a) the use of a
15 mobile telephone for the sole purpose of communicating with any of the
16 following regarding an emergency situation: an emergency response opera-
17 tor; a hospital, physician's office or health clinic; an ambulance
18 company or corps; a fire department, district or company; or a police
19 department, (b) any of the following persons while in the performance of
20 their official duties: a police officer or peace officer; a member of a
21 fire department, district or company; or the operator of an authorized
22 emergency vehicle as defined in section one hundred one of this chapter,
23 or (c) the use of a hands-free mobile telephone, except in the case of a
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 driver operating a school bus pursuant to paragraph (e) of subdivision
2 two of this section.
3 § 3. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
4 have become a law.