Bill Text: NY S02515 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Establishes scramble crosswalks leading to and from school buildings during times of student arrival and dismissal to ensure all vehicular traffic is stopped while pedestrians are crossing in the same intersection.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-05-16 - referred to transportation [S02515 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S02515-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         2515--B
            Cal. No. 437

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 23, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens. RAMOS, COMRIE, GOUNARDES, HOYLMAN-SIGAL, LIU, MAY,
          PARKER, SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when  printed
          to  be  committed  to  the  Committee  on  Transportation -- committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee -- reported favorably from said  committee,  ordered
          to  first  and  second  report,  ordered to a third reading, passed by
          Senate and delivered to the  Assembly,  recalled,  vote  reconsidered,
          restored  to  third  reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining
          its place in the order of third reading

        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to establishing
          scramble crosswalks leading to and from school buildings during  times
          of student arrival and dismissal

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision (a) of section 1640 of the vehicle and  traffic
     2  law is amended by adding a new paragraph 23 to read as follows:
     3    23.  Establish  scramble crosswalks in cities with a population of one
     4  million or more leading to and from school  buildings  during  times  of
     5  student  arrival  and dismissal. Such scramble crosswalks shall include,
     6  but not be limited to, the following requirements:
     7    (i) scramble crosswalks shall operate on weekdays  between  8:00  A.M.
     8  and 4:00 P.M.;
     9    (ii)  pedestrians  shall  wait until a pedestrian-control signal indi-
    10  cates a sign to walk;
    11    (iii) vehicles shall not turn right  at  the  intersection  while  the
    12  traffic signal indicates a red light;
    13    (iv) bicyclists may proceed with pedestrians when a pedestrian-control
    14  signal indicates a sign to walk, provided however, such bicyclists shall
    15  yield the right of way to all pedestrians in the intersection;
    16    (v)  bicyclists  may  proceed with vehicular traffic while the traffic
    17  signal indicates a green light; and

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06074-05-3
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     1    (vi) signs shall be erected at  such  intersections  with  a  scramble
     2  crosswalk  indicating that no person shall enter the intersection unless
     3  a pedestrian-control signal indicates that all pedestrians may walk.
     4    For  the  purposes  of  this  paragraph,  "scramble crosswalk" means a
     5  crosswalk with a traffic signal which temporarily  stops  all  vehicular
     6  traffic while a pedestrian-control signal indicates that all pedestrians
     7  at the intersection shall cross the intersection at the same time.
     8    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
     9  have become a law.