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Assembly Bill A1145

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to the use of locomotive horns at private highway-rail grade crossings; repealer

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2025-A1145 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Railroad Law
Laws Affected:
Rpld & add §53-b, Rail L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A8365
2021-2022: A1834
2023-2024: A1160

2025-A1145 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the use of locomotive horns at private highway-rail grade crossings; establishes use of locomotive horn in the locomotive engineer's sole judgment, is appropriate in order to prevent imminent injury, death, or property damage.

2025-A1145 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1145
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              January 9, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A. SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the railroad law, in relation to the use  of  locomotive
   horns  at  private highway-rail grade crossings; and to repeal section
   53-b of such law relating to ringing bells  and  blowing  whistles  at
   crossings

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 53-b of the railroad law  is  REPEALED  and  a  new
 section 53-b is added to read as follows:
   §  53-B.  USE  OF  LOCOMOTIVE  HORNS  AT  CROSSINGS.  UNLESS OTHERWISE
 REQUIRED BY FEDERAL LAW OR REGULATION, AT A PRIVATE  HIGHWAY-RAIL  GRADE
 CROSSING, A LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEER MAY SOUND THE LOCOMOTIVE HORN TO PROVIDE
 A  WARNING  TO  ANIMALS,  VEHICLE OPERATORS, PEDESTRIANS, TRESPASSERS OR
 CREWS ON OTHER TRAINS IN AN EMERGENCY SITUATION IF,  IN  THE  LOCOMOTIVE
 ENGINEER'S SOLE JUDGMENT, SUCH ACTION IS APPROPRIATE IN ORDER TO PREVENT
 IMMINENT INJURY, DEATH, OR PROPERTY DAMAGE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03458-01-5

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