STATE OF NEW YORK
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2313
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 19, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. SKOUFIS -- 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 the opera-
tion of vehicles that are on approach of vehicles displaying a green
or blue light
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The section heading and subdivision (b) of section 1144 of
2 the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 300 of the laws of
3 1960, are amended to read as follows:
4 Operation of vehicles on approach of authorized emergency vehicles or
5 vehicles displaying a green or blue light.
6 (b) This section shall not operate to relieve the driver of an author-
7 ized emergency vehicle or a vehicle authorized to display a green or
8 blue light from the duty to drive with reasonable care for all persons
9 using the highway.
10 § 2. Section 1144 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding
11 a new subdivision (a-1) to read as follows:
12 (a-1) Upon the immediate approach of a vehicle equipped with at least
13 one lighted lamp exhibiting a green or blue light, pursuant to subdivi-
14 sion forty-one of section three hundred seventy-five of this chapter,
15 which is visible under normal atmospheric conditions, the driver of
16 every other vehicle shall yield the right-of-way and shall immediately
17 drive to a position parallel to, and as close as possible to the right-
18 hand edge or curb of the roadway, or to either edge of a one-way roadway
19 three or more lanes in width, clear of any intersection, and shall stop
20 and remain in such position until the vehicle has passed.
21 § 3. 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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