Bill Text: NY A01160 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: 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.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to transportation [A01160 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A01160-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          1160

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 13, 2023
                                       ___________

        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:

     1    Section 1. Section 53-b of the railroad law  is  REPEALED  and  a  new
     2  section 53-b is added to read as follows:
     3    §  53-b.  Use  of  locomotive  horns  at  crossings.  Unless otherwise
     4  required by federal law or regulation, at a private  highway-rail  grade
     5  crossing, a locomotive engineer may sound the locomotive horn to provide
     6  a  warning  to  animals,  vehicle operators, pedestrians, trespassers or
     7  crews on other trains in an emergency situation if,  in  the  locomotive
     8  engineer's sole judgment, such action is appropriate in order to prevent
     9  imminent injury, death, or property damage.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02458-01-3
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