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Assembly Bill A10550

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Provides for biennial inspection of traffic control devices at highway railroad crossings

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2015-A10550 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7409
Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Railroad Law
Laws Affected:
Add ยง53-f, Rail L

2015-A10550 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for biennial inspection of traffic control devices at highway railroad crossings.

2015-A10550 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  10550

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              June 2, 2016
                               ___________

Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Buchwald,
  Gantt) -- (at request of the Department  of  Transportation)  --  read
  once and referred to the Committee on Transportation

AN  ACT  to  amend  the  railroad  law,  in  relation to requiring joint
  inspection of traffic signals

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

  Section 1. The railroad law is amended by adding a new section 53-f to
read as follows:
  S  53-F.  JOINT INSPECTION OF TRAFFIC SIGNALS.  1. NOTWITHSTANDING THE
PROVISIONS OF ANY OTHER LAW TO THE CONTRARY, THE COMMISSIONER IS AUTHOR-
IZED TO ESTABLISH, IMPLEMENT, AND EXERCISE OVERSIGHT OVER A  PROGRAM  OF
INSPECTION  OF  TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES INTERCONNECTED WITH HIGHWAY-RAIL
AT GRADE CROSSING WARNING SYSTEMS.
  2. PURSUANT TO THE PROGRAM ESTABLISHED UNDER SUBDIVISION ONE  OF  THIS
SECTION,  THE  DEPARTMENT  OF TRANSPORTATION SHALL ESTABLISH A PROCEDURE
APPLICABLE TO EVERY RAILROAD CORPORATION AND  EACH  MUNICIPALITY  HAVING
JURISDICTION  OF  A HIGHWAY ON WHICH THERE IS AN AT GRADE RAIL CROSSING.
SUCH PROCEDURE SHALL PROVIDE FOR THE COORDINATED OPERATION AND  BIENNIAL
INSPECTION  OF  ANY  TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES INTERCONNECTED WITH A HIGH-
WAY-RAIL AT GRADE CROSSING WARNING SYSTEM.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
it shall have become a law; provided that,  effective  immediately,  the
commissioner  of transportation is authorized to promulgate any rules or
regulations necessary for the implementation of this act on  its  effec-
tive date.



 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD14159-02-6

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