New York Senate Bill S01129 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1129 2023-2024 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE January 10, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SKOUFIS -- 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 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. LBD03733-01-3