STATE OF NEW YORK
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391--A
Cal. No. 11
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 9, 2013
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Introduced by Sen. DILAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation -- reported
favorably from said committee, ordered to first and second report,
ordered to a third reading, passed by Senate and delivered to the
Assembly, recalled, vote reconsidered, restored to third reading,
amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of
third reading
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to authorizing
limited rear overhang for specialized material delivery vehicles
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (g) of subdivision 3 of section 385 of the vehi-
2 cle and traffic law is relettered paragraph (h) and a new paragraph (g)
3 is added to read as follows:
4 (g) The length of a specialized material delivery vehicle, inclusive
5 of load and bumpers, shall not be more than forty feet provided, howev-
6 er, that the portion of an attached boom or forklift that extends beyond
7 the rear bumper by not more than five feet shall be excluded from the
8 measurement of the length of a specialized material delivery vehicle.
9 For the purposes of this paragraph, "specialized material delivery vehi-
10 cle" shall mean a single unit truck having an attached boom or forklift
11 for the purpose of hoisting, swinging, loading or unloading material
12 from such truck. The provisions of this paragraph authorizing the exclu-
13 sion from the measurement of the length of a specialized material deliv-
14 ery vehicle shall not apply unless the operator of such vehicle holds a
15 valid commercial driver's license as defined by subdivision one of
16 section five hundred one-a of this chapter.
17 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
18 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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