Provides that a motor vehicle will be considered to be in motion while stopped at traffic control devices, stop signs and certain other situations for purposes of mobile phones and other portable electronic devices violations.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5693
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 13, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. LIU -- 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 use of
mobile phones and portable electronic devices while driving
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 1225-c of the vehicle and traffic
2 law is amended by adding a new paragraph (j) to read as follows:
3 (j) "While such vehicle is in motion" shall mean:
4 (i) any time a motor vehicle is moving;
5 (ii) any time a motor vehicle is stopped at a traffic light, stop
6 sign, railroad crossing or any other traffic control device requiring a
7 motor vehicle to stop; or
8 (iii) any time a motor vehicle is stopped because of heavy traffic
9 congestion of a traffic jam.
10 § 2. Subdivision 2 of section 1225-d of the vehicle and traffic law is
11 amended by adding a new paragraph (e) to read as follows:
12 (e) "While such vehicle is in motion" shall mean:
13 (i) any time a motor vehicle is moving;
14 (ii) any time a motor vehicle is stopped at a traffic light, stop
15 sign, railroad crossing or any other traffic control device requiring a
16 motor vehicle to stop; or
17 (iii) any time a motor vehicle is stopped because of heavy traffic
18 congestion of a traffic jam.
19 § 3. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
20 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD07076-01-9
