Bill Text: NY A09396 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that municipalities shall permit bicycle and running events on public highways and shall not charge unreasonable fees for such events.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-29 - referred to transportation [A09396 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A09396-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9396
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 29, 2016
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        Introduced by M. of A. LAVINE -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Transportation
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  highway law and the vehicle and traffic law, in
          relation to organized bicycle and running events on public highways
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Section 316 of the highway law, as amended by chapter 655
     2  of the laws of 1978, is amended to read as follows:
     3    § 316. Entitled to free use of highways. The authorities having charge
     4  or control of any highway, public street, park,  parkway,  driveway,  or
     5  place, shall have no power or authority to pass, enforce or maintain any
     6  ordinance,  rule  or  regulation  by which any person using a bicycle or
     7  tricycle shall be excluded or prohibited from the free use of any  high-
     8  way,  public street, avenue, roadway, driveway, parkway, park, or place,
     9  at any time when the same is open to the free use of persons having  and
    10  using  other  pleasure carriages, except upon such driveway, speedway or
    11  road as has been or may be expressly set apart by law for the  exclusive
    12  use  of horses and light carriages. But nothing herein shall prevent the
    13  passage, enforcement or maintenance  of  any  regulation,  ordinance  or
    14  rule,  regulating  the  use of bicycles or tricycles in highways, public
    15  streets, driveways, parks, parkways, and places, or  the  regulation  of
    16  the  speed  of  carriages, vehicles or engines, in public parks and upon
    17  parkways and driveways in the city of  New  York,  under  the  exclusive
    18  jurisdiction  and  control  of the department of parks and recreation of
    19  said city, nor prevent any such authorities in any other city from regu-
    20  lating the speed of any vehicles herein described in such manner  as  to
    21  limit and determine the proper rate of speed with which such vehicle may
    22  be  propelled  nor  in such manner as to require, direct or prohibit the
    23  use of bells, lamps and other appurtenances nor to prohibit the  use  of
    24  any  vehicle  upon  that  part of the highway, street, park, or parkway,
    25  commonly known as the footpath or sidewalk. No regulation, ordinance  or
    26  rule  regulating  the use of bicycles, tricycles or runners may deny any
    27  organized bicycle or  running  events,  or  any  organized  events  that
    28  combine bicycle and running from any highway, public street, park, park-
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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