STATE OF NEW YORK
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7117
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 3, 2018
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Introduced by Sen. AVELLA -- 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 penalties
for drivers using portable electronic devices while driving within
five hundred feet of a school zone
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 1225-d of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by
2 adding a new subdivision 7 to read as follows:
3 7. (a) Notwithstanding subdivision six of this section, a violation of
4 this section while driving within five hundred feet of a school zone
5 shall be a traffic infraction and shall be punishable by a fine of two
6 hundred dollars upon conviction of a first violation; upon conviction of
7 a second violation, such violation shall be punished by a fine of three
8 hundred dollars; upon conviction of a third or subsequent violation,
9 such violation shall be punished by a fine of five hundred dollars.
10 (b) For the purposes of this subdivision, "school zone" shall mean the
11 distance along a highway passing a school building, entrance or exit of
12 a school abutting on the highway for which a school sign (S1-1) has been
13 posted pursuant to this chapter and in compliance with the manual on
14 uniform traffic control devices maintained pursuant to section sixteen
15 hundred eighty of this chapter.
16 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
17 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD13505-01-7
