Enacts the "real accessible pedestrian signal act" in relation to requiring newly installed or constructed pedestrian signal units to be accessible pedestrian signals and to include tactile maps.
Enacts the "real accessible pedestrian signal act" in relation to requiring newly installed or constructed pedestrian signal units to be accessible pedestrian signals and to include tactile maps.
Enacts the "who you gonna call? act"; classifies vehicles of the office of chief medical examiner of the city of New York as an emergency vehicle; classifies any actual or potential scene where the New York city office of chief medical examiner has an official role as an emergency operation; authorizes vehicles of the office of chief medical examiner of the city of New York to affix vehicles with blue, red and white lights.
Authorizes the use of vehicle-mounted variable message signs on emergency road service vehicles, tow trucks and highway assistance vehicles when such vehicles are responding to roadside emergencies or disabled vehicles, only for safety-related communications.
Directs the department of motor vehicles to develop a plan to increase the availability of wheelchair accessible vehicles, by county, in New York state outside of the city of New York; defines accessibility; requires a report to identify any existing local guidelines for accessible vehicles; directs development of benchmarks for increasing wheelchair accessible vehicles.
Directs the department of motor vehicles to develop a plan to increase the availability of wheelchair accessible vehicles, by county, in New York state outside of the city of New York; defines accessibility; requires a report to identify any existing local guidelines for accessible vehicles; directs development of benchmarks for increasing wheelchair accessible vehicles.
Requires all vehicles move over or slow down for parked, stopped and standing vehicles on highways, requiring the inclusion of at least one question regarding such requirement on the state driver's license examination, and requires public education measures on such requirement.
Adds assault of a highway worker, motor vehicle investigator and motor vehicle inspector to the crime of assault in the second degree; defines such terms.