Bill Text: NY A05889 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to requiring commercial parking garages to install and operate pedestrian warning devices where vehicles exiting such garages cross a pedestrian sidewalk; requires both visual and audible warning signals.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-25 - reported referred to codes [A05889 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A05889-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         5889
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     March 5, 2015
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       Introduced  by  M. of A. KAVANAGH, WEPRIN -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of
         A. PERRY -- read once and referred to the Committee 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 OR 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.
                                                                  LBD04490-01-5
       A. 5889                             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 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 one year after it shall have become  a
   10  law.