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Senate Bill S3936

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Amends provisions regarding certain off street parking for the handicapped to require certain ramp cuts

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2009-S3936 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง1203-c, V & T L

2009-S3936 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Amends provisions regarding certain off street parking for the handicapped (in a shopping center or facility with at least 5 separate retail stores and at least 20 off street parking spaces for use by the public) to require certain ramp cuts: where the designated handicapped parking spaces are separated from the shopping center or facility by a curb or a barrier, at least one ramp cut must be provided with an additional ramp cut for every 100 feet of curb; provides that ramp cuts should be located as close as reasonably practicable to the designated handicapped parking spaces.

2009-S3936 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-S3936 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  3936

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                              April 7, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  OPPENHEIMER -- 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 parking  for
  the handicapped

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

  Section 1.  Subdivision 1 of section 1203-c of the vehicle and traffic
law, as added by chapter 203 of the laws of 1981, is amended to read  as
follows:
  1.  Any person, firm or corporation owning a shopping center or facil-
ity  with  at  least five separate retail stores and at least twenty off
street parking spaces which are provided for use by the shopping  public
must  designate  as only for the handicapped and clearly mark for use by
the handicapped a minimum of five percent of such parking spaces or  ten
such  spaces whichever is less. These spaces must be located as close as
reasonably practicable to the shopping center  facility  and  reasonably
distributed  so  as  to provide convenient access for use by handicapped
drivers.  Such parking spaces are to be used either by handicapped driv-
ers displaying a special municipal parking permit (as defined in section
twelve hundred three-a of this [chapter] ARTICLE and distributed by  the
commissioner  [of motor vehicles] to local governing bodies to be issued
to handicapped persons who reside in such locality) or by motor vehicles
registered in accordance with section four hundred four-a of this  chap-
ter    and  being  used  for the transportation of a handicapped person.
WHERE THE PARKING SPACES DESIGNATED PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS  OF  THIS
SECTION  ARE SEPARATED FROM THE SHOPPING CENTER OR FACILITY BY A CURB OR
A BARRIER AT LEAST ONE RAMP CUT MUST BE PROVIDED WITH AN ADDITIONAL RAMP
CUT REQUIRED FOR EVERY HUNDRED FEET OF CURB. RAMP CUTS SHOULD BE LOCATED
AS CLOSE AS REASONABLY PRACTICABLE  TO  THE  PARKING  SPACES  DESIGNATED
PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION.
  S  2. This act shall take effect on the first of September in the year
next succeeding the year in which it shall have become a law.

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

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