Requires a holder of a class DJ or class MJ learner's permit, while operating a vehicle, to display a sign indicating that such vehicle is being driven by a new driver; further authorizes the commissioner to create the form and distribution for such sign upon the issuance of the learner's permit.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5535
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 27, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. GALEF, TITONE, ORTIZ, GLICK, HOOPER, McDONOUGH,
LAVINE -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. CLARK, COOK, DUPREY, GUNTHER,
MARKEY, PEOPLES-STOKES, RAIA, THIELE -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to signage for
persons driving under a learner's permit
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 501-b of the vehicle and traffic
2 law, as added by chapter 644 of the laws of 2002, paragraphs (c) and (d)
3 as amended by chapter 403 of the laws of 2009, is amended to read as
4 follows:
5 1. In addition to the restrictions contained in subdivision five of
6 section five hundred one of this article, no holder of a class DJ or
7 class MJ learner's permit shall:
8 (a) operate a motor vehicle with any front seat occupants other than
9 the supervising driver;
10 (b) operate a motor vehicle unless every occupant of such vehicle is
11 properly restrained by a safety belt or child safety seat in accordance
12 with the provisions of subdivision three-a of section twelve hundred
13 twenty-nine-c of this chapter;
14 (c) operate a motor vehicle with more than one passenger who is under
15 the age of twenty-one and who is not a member of such holder's immediate
16 family, provided, however, that the provisions of this paragraph shall
17 not apply when such holder is accompanied by a duly licensed parent,
18 guardian, person in a position of loco parentis, driver education teach-
19 er or driving school instructor;
20 (d) be eligible for issuance of a class DJ, MJ, D or M license unless
21 such permit has been valid for at least six months. Any time period in
22 which such class DJ or MJ learner's permit has been suspended or revoked
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 shall not be counted in determining the length of time that such
2 learner's permit has been valid;
3 (e) operate a motor vehicle without a sign, visible to both oncoming
4 and following traffic, indicating that such vehicle is being driven by a
5 new driver. Such sign shall be in such form and distributed in such
6 manner as provided by the commissioner upon issuance of such learner's
7 permit.
8 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of September next
9 succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.
