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Senate Bill S7611

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Relates to van accessible handicapped parking

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2013-S7611 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง1203-c, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: S2217
2017-2018: S2578
2019-2020: S2082
2021-2022: S1329

2013-S7611 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to van accessible handicapped parking.

2013-S7611 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2013-S7611 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  7611

                            I N  S E N A T E

                              May 15, 2014
                               ___________

Introduced  by Sen. NOZZOLIO -- 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 van accessi-
  ble handicapped parking

  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.  (A)  Any  person,  firm or corporation owning a shopping center or
facility 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 hand-
icapped drivers  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 chapter and being used for the transportation of a hand-
icapped person.
  (B) ONE IN EVERY EIGHT HANDICAP ACCESSIBLE SPACES SHALL BE VAN  ACCES-
SIBLE.  WHERE FIVE OR MORE PARKING SPACES ARE DESIGNATED HANDICAP ACCES-
SIBLE, ANY SPACE THAT IS DESIGNATED AS VAN ACCESSIBLE SHALL BE  RESERVED
FOR  WHEELCHAIR  USERS ONLY. A VAN ACCESSIBLE PARKING SPACE RESERVED FOR
WHEELCHAIR USERS SHALL BE AT LEAST NINE FEET  WIDE  AND  SHALL  HAVE  AN
ADJACENT ACCESS AISLE THAT IS AT LEAST EIGHT FEET WIDE.
  (C) VAN ACCESSIBLE PARKING SPACES SHALL BE AT LEAST NINE FEET WIDE AND
SHALL HAVE AN ADJACENT ACCESS AISLE THAT IS AT LEAST SIX FEET WIDE.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD15015-01-4

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