Relates to allowing the Yeshiva of Staten Island to provide driver education courses in alternate locations including at the Arthur Kill Road Jewish Community Center of Staten Island and the Manor Road Jewish Community Center of Staten Island, located in the county of Richmond.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8326
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
June 14, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. CUSICK -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to allowing the
Yeshiva of Staten Island to provide driver education courses in alter-
nate locations
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 507 of the vehicle and traffic
2 law, as amended by chapter 215 of the laws of 2010, is amended to read
3 as follows:
4 1. Driver education. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this
5 article, a class D or class M license, whichever is appropriate, may be
6 issued to a minor seventeen years of age who has successfully completed
7 a driver education course approved by the state education department and
8 the commissioner in a high school or college and who has submitted proof
9 of completion of the minimum hours of supervised driving as required in
10 paragraph (d) of subdivision two of section five hundred two of this
11 article; provided however, the Yeshiva of Staten Island, which operates
12 as a high school, may provide driver education courses at the Arthur
13 Kill Road Jewish Community Center of Staten Island and the Manor Road
14 Jewish Community Center of Staten Island, located in the county of Rich-
15 mond. No such driver education course may be approved unless classroom
16 training is provided by a person approved by the state education depart-
17 ment and the commissioner. However, a school district may contract with
18 one or more licensed drivers' schools to provide behind the wheel train-
19 ing, pursuant to regulations promulgated by the commissioner. The
20 commissioner shall prescribe the requirements for licensing of such
21 minors. A student enrolled in such an approved driver education course
22 may operate a motor vehicle without holding a driver's license or a
23 learner's permit while under the immediate supervision of an instructor
24 in such course or a driver's school instructor providing behind the
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 wheel training in such a course, provided such operation is in accord-
2 ance with the rules established by the commissioner. Every student who
3 successfully completes such course in a day, evening or summer school
4 program offered by a public or private school shall receive certif-
5 ication of such completion on a certificate prescribed by the commis-
6 sioner.
7 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
