Bill Text: FL S0406 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Barriers/Highways/Canals or Bodies of Water [CPSC]

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2010-04-30 - Died in Committee on Transportation [S0406 Detail]

Download: Florida-2010-S0406-Introduced.html

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Florida Senate - 2010                                     SB 406 
 
By Senator Bullard 
39-00177-10                                            2010406__ 
1                        A bill to be entitled 
2         An act relating to motor vehicle safety; requiring 
3         limited access facilities that are adjacent to a canal 
4         or other water body to have a system of guardrails, 
5         retention cables, or other barriers between the 
6         highway and the canal or water body; requiring the 
7         Department of Transportation to establish certain 
8         standards governing the installation and maintenance 
9         of the barriers; requiring that barriers be installed 
10         for existing highways by a specified date; providing 
11         an effective date. 
12 
13  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 
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15         Section 1. Barrier required between a highway and a canal 
16  or water body.— 
17         (1) Each limited access facility in an area that has a high 
18  volume of canals or narrow roadways that are adjacent to bodies 
19  of water must have a system of guardrails, retention cables, or 
20  other barriers between the highway and the canal or water body 
21  which are installed and maintained in conformance with standards 
22  established by the Department of Transportation. The standards 
23  should be designed to limit the loss of life by safely 
24  preventing out-of-control motor vehicles from entering the canal 
25  or water body, and may include criteria, such as the width or 
26  depth of the canal or water body or its proximity to the 
27  traveled way of the highway, in specifying where barriers are 
28  required. 
29         (2) For a limited access facility in existence on July 1, 
30  2010, the barriers required under this section must be installed 
31  on or before December 31, 2013. 
32         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2010.