STATE OF NEW YORK
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6375
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 20, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. QUART -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to providing
that in a city of one million or more flashing purple lights may be
affixed to and displayed on buses operated on a bus rapid transit
route
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 41 of section 375 of the vehicle and traffic
2 law is amended by adding a new paragraph 1-a to read as follows:
3 1-a. In a city with a population of one million or more, flashing
4 purple lights may be affixed to and displayed on buses operated on a bus
5 rapid transit route. Such flashing purple lights may be used exclusively
6 by a bus driver authorized by the applicable mass transit agency on any
7 bus rapid transit route, provided that flashing purple lights may not be
8 utilized on any bus operating on a bus rapid transit route where the bus
9 fare is paid upon boarding. For the purposes of this paragraph, "bus
10 rapid transit route" shall include routes designated as such by the New
11 York city department of transportation and the applicable mass transit
12 agency, including but not limited to, those routes specified in section
13 eleven hundred eleven-c of this chapter.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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