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General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 608
January Session, 2021
LCO No. 2498
Referred to Committee on TRANSPORTATION
Introduced by:
SEN. CICARELLA, 34th Dist.
SEN. CABRERA, 17th Dist.
REP. CANDELORA, 86th Dist.
REP. FISHBEIN, 90th Dist.
REP. PAOLILLO, 97th Dist.
REP. YACCARINO, 87th Dist.
REP. ZULLO, 99th Dist.
AN ACT CONCERNING THE SAFETY OF CHILDREN WHEN BUYING
ICE CREAM FROM AN ICE CREAM TRUCK.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
That the general statutes be amended to (1) require a vehicle that sells 1
ice cream and similar food items that are meant for immediate 2
consumption to be equipped with a traffic signal and to use such traffic 3
signal when stationary and engaged in the sale of ice cream or similar 4
food items to indicate that children are patronizing, or in the area of, 5
such vehicle, (2) require such vehicle that is model year 2021 or earlier 6
to install such traffic signal on or before July 1, 2026, (3) require such 7
vehicle that is model year 2022 or newer to install such traffic signal 8
prior to engaging in the sale of ice cream or similar food items, (4) 9
require a motor vehicle operator to stop completely before passing a 10
vehicle that sells ice cream and similar food items and has activated such 11
vehicle's traffic signal, (5) require the sale of ice cream and similar food 12
items to children occur only when the vending window of such vehicle 13 Proposed Bill No. 608
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is facing away from the travel lane of the roadway, and (6) prohibit the 14
sale of ice cream or similar food items to a child when such child is 15
standing in the travel lane of the roadway or in an area unsafe for 16
pedestrians, except when such child is accompanied by an adult, and 17
make a violation of such prohibition an infraction. 18
Statement of Purpose:
To protect children in the course of buying ice cream from ice cream
trucks by increasing the truck's visibility to other drivers and warning
drivers that children may be present.