STATE OF NEW YORK
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4104--A
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 28, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation -- commit-
tee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recom-
mitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to the solic-
itation of donations on state highways
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 1157 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by
2 adding a new subdivision (d) to read as follows:
3 (d) No person shall occupy any part of a state highway in any manner
4 for the purpose of selling or soliciting in a town outside the geograph-
5 ical boundaries of a city or village, except by a person eighteen years
6 of age or older to solicit on behalf of a fire company as defined by
7 subdivision two of section one hundred of the general municipal law, a
8 voluntary ambulance service as defined by subdivision three of section
9 one hundred of the general municipal law, or an organization exempt from
10 taxation pursuant to section 501 (c) of the internal revenue code and
11 such highway has a speed limit not exceeding thirty miles per hour.
12 Provided, however, that no such solicitation pursuant to this subdivi-
13 sion shall be authorized where prohibited by a local law or ordinance of
14 the town in which such solicitation occurs.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD00387-07-9
