Bill Text: NY A02528 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Authorizes installation of speed bumps and traffic spikes on ramps of highways to prevent motorists from entering highways in the wrong direction.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-06 - referred to transportation [A02528 Detail]
Download: New_York-2009-A02528-Amended.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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2528--A
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
January 20, 2009
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Introduced by M. of A. CALHOUN -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. CROUCH
-- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation --
committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the highway law, in relation to the installation of
certain speed bumps
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. The highway law is amended by adding a new section 67 to
2 read as follows:
3 S 67. INSTALLATION OF SPEED BUMPS AND TRAFFIC SPIKES. 1. THE COMMIS-
4 SIONER SHALL INSTALL SPEED BUMPS AND TRAFFIC SPIKES ON HIGHWAY RAMPS TO
5 PREVENT MOTORISTS FROM ENTERING STATE CONTROLLED HIGHWAYS IN THE WRONG
6 DIRECTION. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL PROMULGATE RULES, REGULATIONS AND
7 REQUIREMENTS:
8 A. ESTABLISHING THE NUMBER OF TRAFFIC SPIKE UNITS TO BE USED; AND
9 B. ESTABLISHING THE PLACEMENT AND USE OF SUCH UNITS.
10 2. THE COMMISSIONER IS AUTHORIZED AND DIRECTED TO PROMULGATE ANY OTHER
11 RULES AND REGULATIONS NECESSARY FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PROVISIONS
12 OF THIS SECTION.
13 S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
14 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD05716-02-9
