STATE OF NEW YORK
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4979
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 3, 2017
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Introduced by Sens. DIAZ, AVELLA, DILAN, HAMILTON -- 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 requiring
the use of rear wheel guards on certain vehicles
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Amara
2 Diarrassouba life saving truck guard law".
3 § 2. Section 375 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a
4 new subdivision 10-f to read as follows:
5 10-f. Every truck, tractor, and tractor-trailer or semitrailer combi-
6 nation registered in this state having a gross vehicle weight rating of
7 twenty-six thousand pounds or more, and a conventional cab configuration
8 in which more than half of the engine length is forward of the foremost
9 point of the windshield base and the steering wheel hub is in the
10 forward quarter of the vehicle length, whenever operated within a city
11 having a population of one million or more on highways other than cont-
12 rolled-access highways, shall be equipped with rear wheel guards on the
13 rear wheels of such vehicle or combination of vehicles.
14 § 3. This act shall be deemed repealed if any federal agency or any
15 court of competent jurisdiction finally determines that this act would
16 render New York state ineligible for the receipt of federal funds.
17 § 4. Severability. If any clause, sentence, subdivision, paragraph,
18 section or part of this act be adjudged by any court of competent juris-
19 diction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair or invali-
20 date the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its operation to
21 the clause, sentence, subdivision, paragraph, section or part thereof
22 directly involved in the controversy in which such judgment shall have
23 been rendered.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 § 5. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
2 it shall have become a law; provided, however, that effective immediate-
3 ly, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation
4 necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective date is
5 authorized to be made and completed on or before such effective date;
6 and provided that the commissioner of the department of transportation
7 shall notify the legislative bill drafting commission upon the occur-
8 rence of the provisions of section three of this act in order that the
9 commission may maintain an accurate data base of the official text of
10 the laws of the state of New York in furtherance of effecting the
11 provisions of section 44 of the legislative law and section 70-b of the
12 public officers law.
