STATE OF NEW YORK
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2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 9, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. ROBACH -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to permitting a
driver to not have a hand on the steering mechanism of a vehicle while
a driving automation system is engaged
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 1226 of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by
2 chapter 506 of the laws of 1971, is amended to read as follows:
3 § 1226. Control of steering mechanism. No person shall operate a motor
4 vehicle without having at least one hand or, in the case of a physically
5 handicapped person, at least one prosthetic device or aid on the steer-
6 ing mechanism at all times when the motor vehicle is in motion unless a
7 driving automation system, as defined in SAE J3016 as periodically
8 revised, is engaged to perform steering function.
9 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
10 ing the date on which it shall have become a law and shall apply to
11 violations committed on and after such date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD05154-01-9
