Requires a sign on the rear of every vehicle or combination of vehicles consisting of a tractor and two or more trailers or semi-trailers in letters readable from a distance of five hundred feet a notice indicating that such vehicle combination is of excessive length; excludes vehicles or trailers not exceeding 28.5 feet in length.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4739
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 5, 2009
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Introduced by M. of A. CLARK -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BRENNAN,
GALEF, GREENE, HOOPER, WEINSTEIN -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to vehicles or
combinations of vehicles exceeding maximum dimension and weight limi-
tations
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 375 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by
2 adding a new subdivision 52 to read as follows:
3 52. Every vehicle combination consisting of a tractor and two or more
4 trailers or semi-trailers shall have posted at the rear thereof a sign
5 indicating, in letters of a size readable from a distance of five
6 hundred feet, that such vehicle combination is of excessive length.
7 Provided, however, the provisions of this subdivision shall not apply to
8 any trailer or semi-trailer being operated in combination with another
9 trailer or semi-trailer and not exceeding twenty-eight and one-half feet
10 in length.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
12 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD06029-01-9
