Assembly Bill A9676

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Relates to school zone speed limits and signage and other traffic calming devices

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2015-A9676 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3372
Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
New York City Administrative Code
Laws Affected:
Amd ยงยง19-177 & 19-183, NYC Ad Cd
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: A8499, S4613
2017-2018: A356, S1634
2019-2020: A226, S4120
2021-2022: A553, S34
2023-2024: S754
2025-2026: S2139

2015-A9676 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to school zone speed limits; requires signage and other traffic calming devices in such speed zones.

2015-A9676 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  9676

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             March 29, 2016
                               ___________

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

AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the  city  of  New  York,  in
  relation to signage in school speed zones

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

  Section 1. Paragraph 1 of subdivision  e  of  section  19-177  of  the
administrative  code  of  the  city  of  New York, as added by local law
number 24 of the city of New York for the year 2014, is amended to  read
as follows:
  (1)  Except  as  provided  in  paragraph  two of this subdivision, the
commissioner shall establish speed limits of not less than  fifteen  nor
more  than twenty miles per hour at fifty school locations annually, for
a distance not to exceed one thousand  three  hundred  twenty  feet,  on
highways passing any school building, entrance or exit of a school abut-
ting  on  the highway. THE OFFICIAL SIGNS POSTED AT EACH SCHOOL LOCATION
THAT HAS BEEN SELECTED PURSUANT TO THIS SUBDIVISION  SHALL  INCLUDE  THE
REDUCED  SPEED  LIMIT,  FLASHING  BEACONS, AND A NOTICE THAT THE REDUCED
SPEED LIMIT IS IN EFFECT WHEN SUCH BEACONS ARE FLASHING. For purposes of
this subdivision, the term "school" shall have the same  meaning  as  in
section 19-189 of this title.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD05035-01-5

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