Bill Text: NY S07409 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides for biennial inspection of traffic control devices at highway railroad crossings.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-04-29 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S07409 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S07409-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7409 IN SENATE April 29, 2016 ___________ Introduced by Sen. MURPHY -- (at request of the Department of Transpor- tation) -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation AN ACT to amend the railroad law, in relation to requiring joint inspection of traffic signals The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The railroad law is amended by adding a new section 53-f to 2 read as follows: 3 § 53-f. Joint inspection of traffic signals. 1. Notwithstanding the 4 provisions of any other law to the contrary, the commissioner is author- 5 ized to establish, implement, and exercise oversight over a program of 6 inspection of traffic control devices interconnected with highway-rail 7 at grade crossing warning systems. 8 2. Pursuant to the program established under subdivision one of this 9 section, the department of transportation shall establish a procedure 10 applicable to every railroad corporation and each municipality having 11 jurisdiction of a highway on which there is an at grade rail crossing. 12 Such procedure shall provide for the coordinated operation and biennial 13 inspection of any traffic control devices interconnected with a high- 14 way-rail at grade crossing warning system. 15 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 16 it shall have become a law; provided that, effective immediately, the 17 commissioner of transportation is authorized to promulgate any rules or 18 regulations necessary for the implementation of this act on its effec- 19 tive date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD14159-02-6