Bill Text: NY A02685 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Enacts "Erin's Law"; requires crosswalks near athletic fields and playgrounds abutting roads; does not apply to restricted highways or where installation of a crosswalk would lead to an area that is unsafe for pedestrian traffic.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to transportation [A02685 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A02685-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2685
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 20, 2017
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        Introduced  by M. of A. STECK -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Transportation
        AN ACT to amend the general municipal law,  in  relation  to  crosswalks
          near athletic fields and playgrounds
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as "Erin's law".
     2    § 2. The general municipal law is amended by adding a new section  137
     3  to read as follows:
     4    §  137.  Crosswalks  near athletic fields and playgrounds. 1. Notwith-
     5  standing any other provision of law to the contrary, there shall  be  at
     6  least  one crosswalk, as defined in section one hundred ten of the vehi-
     7  cle and traffic law, located across each road  that  abuts  an  athletic
     8  field or playground.
     9    2.  There  shall be located at each crosswalk required by this section
    10  one or more  pedestrian  signs  (R9-8)  or  yield  to  pedestrian  signs
    11  (R1-5a),  compliant  with the manual on uniform traffic control devices,
    12  visible to each direction of traffic alerting drivers to yield to pedes-
    13  trians in the crosswalk.
    14    3. This section shall not apply to restricted highways.
    15    4. This section shall not apply where the installation of a  crosswalk
    16  would lead to an area that is unsafe for pedestrian traffic.
    17    §  3.  This  act shall take effect eighteen months after it shall have
    18  become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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