Bill Text: NY A09895 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires pedestrian-control signals to indicate that all pedestrians at an intersection shall cross the street at the same time; prohibits a traffic-control signal from displaying a green light for traffic while a pedestrian-control device is displaying a signal indication walk or a symbol of a walking person.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-04-22 - referred to cities [A09895 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-A09895-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 9895 IN ASSEMBLY April 22, 2016 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. DenDEKKER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Cities AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring pedestrian-control signals to indicate that all pedestrians at an intersection shall cross the street at the same time The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The administrative code of the city of New York is amended 2 by adding a new section 19-195 to read as follows: 3 § 19-195 Pedestrian-control signals. Any intersection with a pedestri- 4 an-control signal shall program such signal to indicate that all pedes- 5 trians at the intersection shall cross the street at the same time. No 6 traffic-control signal shall indicate a green light for traffic while a 7 pedestrian-control signal at such intersection displays a signal indi- 8 cating walk or a symbol of a walking person. 9 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD13156-02-6
