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Assembly Bill A10968

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Relates to requiring parking garages to install and operate pedestrian warning devices where vehicles exiting such garage cross a pedestrian sidewalk

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2009-A10968 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3588
Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Add ยง1686, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: A4088, S454
2013-2014: A289
2015-2016: A5889

2009-A10968 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to requiring commercial parking garages to install and operate pedestrian warning devices where vehicles exiting such garage cross a pedestrian sidewalk; requires both visual and audible warning signals.

2009-A10968 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-A10968 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  10968

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                               May 5, 2010
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. KAVANAGH -- read once and referred to the Commit-
  tee on Transportation

AN  ACT  to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to pedestrian
  warning devices for parking garages

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  The  vehicle  and  traffic law is amended by adding a new
section 1686 to read as follows:
  S 1686. ALL VEHICLES MUST STOP AT PARKING GARAGE EXITS. (A) AS USED IN
THIS SECTION, THE FOLLOWING TERMS SHALL HAVE THE FOLLOWING MEANINGS:  1.
"EXIT"  SHALL  MEAN  A POINT OF EGRESS OF A MOTOR VEHICLE WHICH REQUIRES
SUCH MOTOR VEHICLE TO CROSS A SIDEWALK.
  2. "PARKING GARAGE" SHALL MEAN A BUILDING OR THAT PORTION OF A  BUILD-
ING  DESIGNED  OR  USED FOR THE HOUSING, STORAGE OR PARKING OF TWENTY OR
MORE MOTOR VEHICLES.
  3. "PEDESTRIAN  WARNING  DEVICE"  SHALL  MEAN  ANY  DEVICE  OR  SYSTEM
CONSISTING OF A MECHANISM WHICH DETECTS A MOTOR VEHICLE AS IT APPROACHES
A  PARKING  GARAGE  EXIT  TO  DEPART  THEREFROM AND ACTIVATES A FLASHING
YELLOW LIGHT POSITIONED AT THE EXTERIOR  OF  SUCH  PARKING  GARAGE  EXIT
WHICH IS VISIBLE TO PEDESTRIANS AND AN AUDIBLE WARNING SIGNAL CONSISTING
OF  AN  INTERMITTENT  SOUND  NOT  EXCEEDING  70  DB  (A) MEASURED AT, OR
ADJUSTED TO, A DISTANCE OF TEN FEET FROM SUCH EXIT.  SUCH  DEVICE  SHALL
NOT  BE  ACTIVATED FOR ANY PERIOD OF TIME IN EXCESS OF TEN SECONDS AFTER
THE ACTIVATING VEHICLE HAS CLEARED THE EXIT, EXCEPT AS  ACTIVATED  BY  A
SUBSEQUENT VEHICLE.
  (B)  ALL  OWNERS OF PARKING GARAGES SHALL INSTALL, AT EACH EXIT THERE-
FROM:
  1. A PEDESTRIAN WARNING DEVICE;
  2. A STOP SIGN;
  3. THE FOLLOWING NOTICE IN A MANNER WHICH IS LEGIBLE  AND  CONSPICUOUS
TO  OPERATORS OF EXITING MOTOR VEHICLES: "STATE LAW REQUIRES VEHICLES TO
YIELD THE RIGHT OF WAY TO PEDESTRIANS ON SIDEWALKS."; AND

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD10076-01-9

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