File #: Int 0009-2018    Version: Name: Requiring the installation of traffic control devices at intersections adjacent to schools.
Type: Introduction Status: Enacted
Committee: Committee on Transportation
On agenda: 1/31/2018
Enactment date: 1/9/2022 Law number: 2022/001
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the installation of traffic control devices at intersections adjacent to schools
Sponsors: Inez D. Barron, Justin L. Brannan, Robert F. Holden, James G. Van Bramer, Darma V. Diaz, Kalman Yeger , Ben Kallos, Adrienne E. Adams, Tiffany Cabán, Helen K. Rosenthal, Paul A. Vallone, James F. Gennaro, Joseph C. Borelli
Council Member Sponsors: 13
Summary: This bill would require that by September 30, 2022, the Department of Transportation identifies each intersection immediately adjacent to a school that does not have a traffic control device, such as a stop sign or traffic control signal. No later than September 30, 2024, DOT would have to install a traffic control device at each such intersection. The type of traffic control device installed would be in accordance with the federal Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices and based upon DOT’s engineering expertise and judgment.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 9-A, 2. Summary of Int. No. 9, 3. Int. No. 9, 4. January 31, 2018 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 5. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 01-31-2018, 6. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - January 31, 2018, 7. Committee Report 10/26/21, 8. Hearing Testimony 10/26/21, 9. Hearing Transcript 10/26/21, 10. Proposed Int. No. 9-A - 12/2/21, 11. Committee Report 12/8/21, 12. Hearing Transcript 12/8/21, 13. Committee Report - Stated Meeting, 14. December 9, 2021 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 15. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 12-9-21, 16. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - December 9, 2021, 17. Int. No. 9-A (FINAL), 18. Fiscal Impact Statement, 19. Legislative Documents - Letter to the Mayor, 20. Local Law 1
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Int. No. 9-A

 

By Council Members Barron, Brannan, Holden, Van Bramer, D. Diaz, Yeger, Kallos, Adams, Cabán, Rosenthal, Vallone, Gennaro and Borelli

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the installation of traffic control devices at intersections adjacent to schools

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

            Section 1. Subchapter 3 of title 19 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 19-188.2 to read as follows:

§ 19-188.2 Traffic control devices near schools. a. Definitions. For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings:

Intersection. The term "intersection" has the same meaning as such term is defined in section 120 of the vehicle and traffic law.

School. The term "school" has the same meaning as such term is defined in section 19-189.

Traffic control device. The term “traffic control device” means a stop sign or traffic control signal, or other appropriate device consistent with the manual on uniform traffic control devices.

Traffic control signal. The term “traffic control signal” has the same meaning as such term is defined in section 19-199.

b. No later than September 30, 2022, the department shall identify each intersection immediately adjacent to a school where no traffic control device is located.

c. No later than September 30, 2024, the department shall install a traffic control device at each intersection identified pursuant to the requirement set forth in subdivision b of this section.  The department shall determine which type of traffic control device is appropriate at each such intersection, in accordance with the most recent version of the manual on uniform traffic control devices, and based upon the department’s engineering expertise and judgment.

                     § 2.  This local law takes effect immediately.

 

 

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