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Senate Bill S2880

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to establishing scramble crosswalks leading to and from school buildings during times of student arrival and dismissal

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2021-S2880 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1642, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S8099
2023-2024: S2515
2025-2026: S4508

2021-S2880 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes scramble crosswalks leading to and from school buildings during times of student arrival and dismissal to ensure all vehicular traffic is stopped while pedestrians are crossing in the same intersection.

2021-S2880 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S2880 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2880
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 26, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  RAMOS  -- 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 establishing
   scramble crosswalks leading to and from school buildings during  times
   of student arrival and dismissal

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision (a) of section 1642 of the vehicle and  traffic
 law is amended by adding a new paragraph 28 to read as follows:
   28.  (A)  ESTABLISHMENT  OF  SCRAMBLE  CROSSWALKS  LEADING TO AND FROM
 SCHOOL BUILDINGS DURING TIMES OF STUDENT  ARRIVAL  AND  DISMISSAL.  SUCH
 SCRAMBLE  CROSSWALKS SHALL INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO, THE FOLLOWING
 REQUIREMENTS:
   (I) SCRAMBLE CROSSWALKS SHALL OPERATE ON WEEKDAYS  BETWEEN  8:00  A.M.
 AND 4:00 P.M.;
   (II)  PEDESTRIANS  SHALL  WAIT UNTIL A PEDESTRIAN-CONTROL SIGNAL INDI-
 CATES A SIGN TO WALK;
   (III) VEHICLES SHALL NOT TURN RIGHT  AT  THE  INTERSECTION  WHILE  THE
 TRAFFIC SIGNAL INDICATES A RED LIGHT;
   (IV) BICYCLISTS MAY PROCEED WITH PEDESTRIANS WHEN A PEDESTRIAN-CONTROL
 SIGNAL INDICATES A SIGN TO WALK, PROVIDED HOWEVER, SUCH BICYCLISTS SHALL
 YIELD THE RIGHT OF WAY TO ALL PEDESTRIANS IN THE INTERSECTION;
   (V)  BICYCLISTS  MAY  PROCEED WITH VEHICULAR TRAFFIC WHILE THE TRAFFIC
 SIGNAL INDICATES A GREEN LIGHT; AND
   (VI) SIGNS SHALL BE ERECTED AT  SUCH  INTERSECTIONS  WITH  A  SCRAMBLE
 CROSSWALK  INDICATING THAT NO PERSON SHALL ENTER THE INTERSECTION UNLESS
 A PEDESTRIAN-CONTROL SIGNAL INDICATES THAT ALL PEDESTRIANS MAY WALK.
   (B) FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS PARAGRAPH, "SCRAMBLE CROSSWALK"  MEANS  A
 CROSSWALK  WITH  A  TRAFFIC SIGNAL WHICH TEMPORARILY STOPS ALL VEHICULAR
 TRAFFIC WHILE A PEDESTRIAN-CONTROL SIGNAL INDICATES THAT ALL PEDESTRIANS
 AT THE INTERSECTION SHALL CROSS THE INTERSECTION AT THE SAME TIME.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.

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