New York A 8980: Permits special districts to adopt local laws providing for an exemption for improvements to residential real property for facilitating accessibility of such property to a physically disabled owner

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A08980 Summary:

BILL NOA08980 

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SAME ASSAME AS S02403

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SPONSORKay

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §§154-a & 397-d, amd §1115, V & T L

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Prohibits the operation of any motor vehicle equipped with a device which affects the operation of traffic-control signals; provides that the possession of such a device shall constitute a traffic infraction, use thereof is a class A misdemeanor, and use which results in personal injury or death shall constitute a class E felony.

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BILL NOA08980 

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08/13/2025referred to transportation

01/07/2026referred to transportation

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 8980

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 August 13, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. KAY -- read once and referred to the Committee on
 Transportation

 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to prohibiting
 the use of any device which affects the operation of a traffic-control
 signal

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. The vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a new
 2 section 154-a to read as follows:
 3 § 154-a. Traffic-control signal preemption device. Any device
 4 designed or used to change or attempt to change the signal indications
 5 of a traffic-control signal or traffic-control device. This shall
 6 include, but not be limited to, a mobile infrared transmitter or other
 7 device that is capable of sending a signal that interrupts or changes
 8 the sequence patterns of an official traffic-control device or traffic-
 9 control signal.
 10 § 2. The vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a new section
 11 397-d to read as follows:
 12 § 397-d. Unauthorized sale, purchase, or use of traffic-control signal
 13 preemption device. 1. No person shall buy, possess, manufacture,
 14 install, sell, offer for sale, or otherwise distribute a traffic-control
 15 signal preemption device, unless the purchase, possession, manufacture,
 16 installation, sale, offer for sale, or distribution is for use of the
 17 device by an authorized emergency vehicle or public transportation vehi-
 18 cle.
 19 2. (a) Excluding an authorized emergency vehicle or authorized public
 20 transportation vehicle operating within the scope of his or her official
 21 duties, no person shall operate any motor vehicle which he or she knows
 22 is equipped with a traffic-control signal preemption device. The pres-
 23 ence in a motor vehicle of a traffic-control signal preemption device
 24 connected to a power source and in an operable condition is presumptive

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD06380-01-5

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 1 evidence of the operator's knowledge of the device. Such presumption
 2 shall be rebutted by any credible and reliable evidence which tends to
 3 show that the operator of the motor vehicle was not aware of the pres-
 4 ence of such device. The definition of an "authorized public transporta-
 5 tion vehicle" shall include, but not be limited to, public transporta-
 6 tion authorized under titles eleven, eleven-A, eleven-B, eleven-C, and
 7 eleven-D of article five of the public authorities law or public trans-
 8 portation authorized under chapter one hundred fifty-four of the laws of
 9 of nineteen hundred twenty-one relating to the port authority of New
 10 York and New Jersey.
 11 (b) The provisions of this section shall not apply to any person using
 12 such a device while engaged in the authorized maintenance or repair of a
 13 traffic-control signal.
 14 (c) Authorized emergency vehicle personnel shall only operate a traff-
 15 ic-control signal preemption device in the course of an emergency opera-
 16 tion.
 17 3. (a) Unauthorized manufacture, installation, sale, offer for sale,
 18 or distribution of a traffic-control signal preemption device in
 19 violation of subdivision one of this section shall be a class A misde-
 20 meanor, punishable by a fine of five thousand dollars for each dev