A 6715: Requires the commissioner of motor vehicles to install notification of the thirty-foot requirement on every stop sign; ensures that the required distance established by the law will be posted on any stop sign to forewarn motorists upon approaching a stop sign.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6715 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY March 10, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Transportation AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to parking near a stop sign The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subparagraph c of paragraph 2 of subdivision (a) of section 2 1202 of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 679 of the 3 laws of 1970, is amended to read as follows: 4 c. Within thirty feet upon the approach to any flashing signal, stop 5 or yield sign or traffic-control signal located at the side of the road- 6 way, unless a different distance is indicated by official signs, mark- 7 ings or parking meters. The commissioner shall ensure that notification 8 of the distance requirement established by this section is conspicuously 9 posted beneath any stop sign posted on a state highway; 10 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 11 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the commissioner of 12 motor vehicles may begin the installation of any signs required as a 13 result of this act. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD03559-01-5