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Senate Bill S454

2011-2012 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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2011-S454 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Add ยง1686, V & T L
Versions Introduced in 2009-2010 Legislative Session:
S3588

2011-S454 (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.

2011-S454 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2011-S454 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                   454

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 5, 2011
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sens. KRUEGER, HASSELL-THOMPSON, HUNTLEY, KLEIN, PERKINS
  -- 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  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;

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

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