Bill Text: NY A04088 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to requiring commercial parking garages to install and operate pedestrian warning devices where vehicles exiting such garage cross a pedestrian sidewalk; requires both visual and audible warning signals.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-05-31 - print number 4088a [A04088 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-A04088-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 4088 2011-2012 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y February 1, 2011 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. KAVANAGH -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Transportation AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to pedestrian warning devices for parking garages THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. The vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a new 2 section 1686 to read as follows: 3 S 1686. ALL VEHICLES MUST STOP AT PARKING GARAGE EXITS. (A) AS USED IN 4 THIS SECTION, THE FOLLOWING TERMS SHALL HAVE THE FOLLOWING MEANINGS: 1. 5 "EXIT" SHALL MEAN A POINT OF EGRESS OF A MOTOR VEHICLE WHICH REQUIRES 6 SUCH MOTOR VEHICLE TO CROSS A SIDEWALK. 7 2. "PARKING GARAGE" SHALL MEAN A BUILDING OR THAT PORTION OF A BUILD- 8 ING DESIGNED OR USED FOR THE HOUSING, STORAGE OR PARKING OF TWENTY OR 9 MORE MOTOR VEHICLES. 10 3. "PEDESTRIAN WARNING DEVICE" SHALL MEAN ANY DEVICE OR SYSTEM 11 CONSISTING OF A MECHANISM WHICH DETECTS A MOTOR VEHICLE AS IT APPROACHES 12 A PARKING GARAGE EXIT TO DEPART THEREFROM AND ACTIVATES A FLASHING 13 YELLOW LIGHT POSITIONED AT THE EXTERIOR OF SUCH PARKING GARAGE EXIT 14 WHICH IS VISIBLE TO PEDESTRIANS AND AN AUDIBLE WARNING SIGNAL CONSISTING 15 OF AN INTERMITTENT SOUND NOT EXCEEDING 70 DB (A) MEASURED AT, OR 16 ADJUSTED TO, A DISTANCE OF TEN FEET FROM SUCH EXIT. SUCH DEVICE SHALL 17 NOT BE ACTIVATED FOR ANY PERIOD OF TIME IN EXCESS OF TEN SECONDS AFTER 18 THE ACTIVATING VEHICLE HAS CLEARED THE EXIT, EXCEPT AS ACTIVATED BY A 19 SUBSEQUENT VEHICLE. 20 (B) ALL OWNERS OF PARKING GARAGES SHALL INSTALL, AT EACH EXIT THERE- 21 FROM: 22 1. A PEDESTRIAN WARNING DEVICE; 23 2. A STOP SIGN; EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD00834-01-1 A. 4088 2 1 3. THE FOLLOWING NOTICE IN A MANNER WHICH IS LEGIBLE AND CONSPICUOUS 2 TO OPERATORS OF EXITING MOTOR VEHICLES: "STATE LAW REQUIRES VEHICLES TO 3 YIELD THE RIGHT OF WAY TO PEDESTRIANS ON SIDEWALKS."; AND 4 4. ON THE EXTERIOR OF EACH SUCH EXIT THE FOLLOWING NOTICE TO PEDESTRI- 5 ANS: "CAUTION: EXITING VEHICLES." SUCH NOTICE SHALL BE POSTED IN A 6 MANNER WHICH IS LEGIBLE AND CONSPICUOUS TO PEDESTRIANS. 7 (C) A VIOLATION OF THIS SECTION SHALL BE PUNISHABLE BY A FINE OF UP TO 8 TWO HUNDRED FIFTY DOLLARS FOR EACH VIOLATION. 9 S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 10 it shall have become a law.