Bill Text: NY A07849 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires access aisles of handicapped accessible parking spaces to be at least eight feet wide.

Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-05-17 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [A07849 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-A07849-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         7849
                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                    April 27, 2009
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       Introduced  by  M.  of  A. LAVINE, BENEDETTO, CUSICK, KAVANAGH, LATIMER,
         PAULIN, TITUS -- Multi-Sponsored by  --  M.  of  A.  ALFANO,  AMEDORE,
         BACALLES,  BALL,  BARCLAY,  BARRA,  BENJAMIN,  BOYLAND,  BOYLE, CLARK,
         COLTON, CORWIN, DUPREY, FITZPATRICK, GIGLIO, GLICK, GOTTFRIED, HAWLEY,
         JORDAN, KOLB, LIFTON, LUPARDO, MAYERSOHN, McDONOUGH, J. MILLER,  MOLI-
         NARO,   OAKS,   PEOPLES-STOKES,   PHEFFER,   RABBITT,  RAIA,  REILICH,
         J. RIVERA, ROSENTHAL, SCOZZAFAVA,  TEDISCO,  THIELE,  TOBACCO,  TOWNS,
         TOWNSEND,  WEISENBERG  --  read  once and referred to the Committee on
         Transportation
       AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in  relation  to  providing
         that access aisles of handicapped accessible parking spaces have to be
         at least eight feet wide
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 2 of  section  1203-c  of  the
    2  vehicle  and traffic law, as amended by chapter 350 of the laws of 1993,
    3  is amended to read as follows:
    4    (b) Whenever a person, firm or corporation creates an off-street park-
    5  ing lot OR PARKING GARAGE, or repaves or repaints more than one-half  of
    6  the total number of parking spaces in an off-street parking lot OR PARK-
    7  ING  GARAGE  which  contains  designated  handicapped parking spaces, or
    8  creates designated handicapped parking spaces in an  off-street  parking
    9  lot  OR PARKING GARAGE, or repaves or repaints more than one-half of the
   10  total number of designated handicapped parking spaces in  an  off-street
   11  parking lot OR PARKING GARAGE, [specifications as to] the size of desig-
   12  nated  handicapped  parking  spaces  and  designated handicapped parking
   13  space access aisles EACH shall be [in accordance with  the  requirements
   14  of  the  New  York  state uniform fire prevention and building code.] AT
   15  LEAST EIGHT FEET WIDE.
   16    S 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
   17  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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