Bill Text: NY S08696 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the commissioner of transportation to conduct a study on the implementation of traffic control devices at intersections with a high volume of visual and hearing impaired pedestrians.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-03-01 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S08696 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S08696-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8696

                    IN SENATE

                                      March 1, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  CLEARE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation

        AN ACT directing the commissioner of transportation to conduct  a  study
          on the implementation of traffic control devices at intersections with
          a high volume of visual and hearing impaired pedestrians

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

     1    Section 1. The commissioner of transportation shall conduct a study on
     2  the feasibility and process for installing pedestrian control devices at
     3  traffic intersections involving a state-owned public  road  where  there
     4  may be a high volume of pedestrians with visual and hearing impairments.
     5  Such  study  shall  include  an  estimate  of how many intersections may
     6  require such devices, the method used for determining such  estimate,  a
     7  process  for  implementation,  and  the  estimated  costs  involved. For
     8  purposes of this act, "pedestrian control device" shall  mean  an  elec-
     9  tronically operated traffic control device composed of one or more indi-
    10  cations  which  directs  pedestrian  traffic at signalized locations and
    11  assists the visual and hearing impaired in  safely  crossing  a  traffic
    12  intersection.
    13    §  2.  Upon completion of the study but no later than the thirty-first
    14  of December next succeeding the date on which this act shall have become
    15  a law, the commissioner of transportation shall submit a report based on
    16  the findings of the study to the governor, the  temporary  president  of
    17  the  senate,  the  speaker  of  the assembly, the minority leader of the
    18  senate, the minority leader of the assembly, the  chair  of  the  senate
    19  transportation  committee,  and the chair of the assembly transportation
    20  committee which shall include the findings and  recommendations  of  the
    21  study described in section one of this act.
    22    §  3.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
    23  have become a law.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01635-01-3