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Assembly Bill A5657A

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Enacts "Erin's Law"; requires crosswalks near athletic fields and playgrounds

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2015-A5657 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3435
Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
General Municipal Law
Laws Affected:
Add §137, Gen Muni L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: A7723, S5049
2017-2018: A2685

2015-A5657 - Summary

Enacts "Erin's Law"; requires crosswalks near athletic fields and playgrounds abutting roads; does not apply to restricted highways or where installation of a crosswalk would lead to an area that is unsafe for pedestrian traffic.

2015-A5657 - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  5657

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              March 3, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. STECK -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Transportation

AN ACT to amend the general municipal law,  in  relation  to  crosswalks
  near athletic fields and playgrounds

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

  Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as "Erin's law".
  S 2. The general municipal law is amended by adding a new section  137
to read as follows:
  S  137.  CROSSWALKS  NEAR ATHLETIC FIELDS AND PLAYGROUNDS. 1. NOTWITH-
STANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW TO THE CONTRARY, THERE SHALL  BE  AT
LEAST  ONE CROSSWALK, AS DEFINED IN SECTION ONE HUNDRED TEN OF THE VEHI-
CLE AND TRAFFIC LAW, LOCATED ACROSS EACH ROAD  THAT  ABUTS  AN  ATHLETIC
FIELD OR PLAYGROUND.
  2.  THERE  SHALL BE LOCATED AT EACH CROSSWALK REQUIRED BY THIS SECTION
ONE OR MORE  PEDESTRIAN  SIGNS  (R9-8)  OR  YIELD  TO  PEDESTRIAN  SIGNS
(R1-5A),  COMPLIANT  WITH THE MANUAL ON UNIFORM TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES,
VISIBLE TO EACH DIRECTION OF TRAFFIC ALERTING DRIVERS TO YIELD TO PEDES-
TRIANS IN THE CROSSWALK.
  3. THIS SECTION SHALL NOT APPLY TO RESTRICTED HIGHWAYS.
  S 3. This act shall take effect eighteen months after  it  shall  have
become a law.




 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD06730-01-5

2015-A5657A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3435
Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
General Municipal Law
Laws Affected:
Add §137, Gen Muni L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: A7723, S5049
2017-2018: A2685

2015-A5657A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Enacts "Erin's Law"; requires crosswalks near athletic fields and playgrounds abutting roads; does not apply to restricted highways or where installation of a crosswalk would lead to an area that is unsafe for pedestrian traffic.

2015-A5657A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                 5657--A

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              March 3, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. STECK -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Transportation  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
  reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

AN  ACT  to  amend  the general municipal law, in relation to crosswalks
  near athletic fields and playgrounds

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

  Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as "Erin's law".
  S  2. The general municipal law is amended by adding a new section 137
to read as follows:
  S 137. CROSSWALKS NEAR ATHLETIC FIELDS AND  PLAYGROUNDS.  1.  NOTWITH-
STANDING  ANY  OTHER PROVISION OF LAW TO THE CONTRARY, THERE SHALL BE AT
LEAST ONE CROSSWALK, AS DEFINED IN SECTION ONE HUNDRED TEN OF THE  VEHI-
CLE  AND  TRAFFIC  LAW,  LOCATED ACROSS EACH ROAD THAT ABUTS AN ATHLETIC
FIELD OR PLAYGROUND.
  2. THERE SHALL BE LOCATED AT EACH CROSSWALK REQUIRED BY  THIS  SECTION
ONE  OR  MORE  PEDESTRIAN  SIGNS  (R9-8)  OR  YIELD  TO PEDESTRIAN SIGNS
(R1-5A), COMPLIANT WITH THE MANUAL ON UNIFORM TRAFFIC  CONTROL  DEVICES,
VISIBLE TO EACH DIRECTION OF TRAFFIC ALERTING DRIVERS TO YIELD TO PEDES-
TRIANS IN THE CROSSWALK.
  3. THIS SECTION SHALL NOT APPLY TO RESTRICTED HIGHWAYS.
  4.  THIS SECTION SHALL NOT APPLY WHERE THE INSTALLATION OF A CROSSWALK
WOULD LEAD TO AN AREA THAT IS UNSAFE FOR PEDESTRIAN TRAFFIC.
  S 3. This act shall take effect eighteen months after  it  shall  have
become a law.



 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD06730-03-5

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