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                                   3809
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 31, 2019
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 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  McDONOUGH,  KOLB, FINCH, RA, M. L. MILLER --
   Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. HAWLEY,  MORINELLO  --  read  once  and
   referred 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
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01710-01-9
              

 A. 3809                             2
 
 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.
   (D)  AN  ACCESS  AISLE, AS DESCRIBED IN PARAGRAPHS (B) AND (C) OF THIS
 SUBDIVISION, SHALL BE LOCATED ON THE PASSENGER SIDE OF THE PARKING SPACE
 EXCEPT THAT TWO ADJACENT ACCESSIBLE PARKING SPACES MAY  SHARE  A  COMMON
 ACCESS AISLE.
   (E)  A  VAN  ACCESSIBLE  PARKING  SPACE  SHALL HAVE AN ADDITIONAL SIGN
 MARKED "VAN ACCESSIBLE" MOUNTED BELOW THE SIGN. A VAN ACCESSIBLE PARKING
 SPACE RESERVED FOR WHEELCHAIR USERS SHALL HAVE A SIGN THAT INCLUDES  THE
 WORDS "WHEELCHAIR USER ONLY."
   (F)  ACCESSIBLE  PARKING SPACES, DECALS AND SIGNS SHALL BE DESIGNED IN
 COMPLIANCE WITH THE STANDARDS SET FORTH BY THE MUNICIPALITY.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.