File #: Int 0102-2018    Version: * Name: Community board notification prior to installing or removing traffic calming devices or installing traffic control signals or devices.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed (End of Session)
Committee: Committee on Transportation
On agenda: 1/31/2018
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to community board notification prior to installing or removing traffic calming devices or installing traffic control signals or devices
Sponsors: Peter A. Koo, Justin L. Brannan, Karen Koslowitz, Robert F. Holden
Council Member Sponsors: 4
Summary: This bill would require the Department of Transportation to provide at least 45 days’ notice to community boards having jurisdiction over locations in the City where the Department of Transportation proposes to install or remove a traffic calming device or traffic control signal or device.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 102, 2. Int. No. 102, 3. January 31, 2018 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 01-31-2018, 5. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - January 31, 2018

Int. No. 102

 

By Council Members Koo, Brannan, Koslowitz and Holden

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to community board notification prior to installing or removing traffic calming devices or installing traffic control signals or devices

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Subchapter 3 of chapter 1 of title 19 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 19-199.1 to read as follows:

                     § 19-199.1 Community board notification prior to installing or removing traffic calming devices or traffic control signals or devices. a. For the purposes of this section, "traffic calming device" has the same meaning as in section 19-183 of this subchapter. 

                     b. Not less than 45 days prior to the proposed installation or removal of a traffic calming device by the department or at the behest of the department, or prior to the undertaking of a study by the department or at the behest of the department to determine whether a traffic control signal or device would be warranted at a location pursuant to the manual on uniform traffic control signals or devices, the department shall notify via facsimile and electronic mail the respective community board or boards having jurisdiction of the location where such traffic calming device or traffic control signal or device is proposed to be installed or removed.  From the time of such notification to the time of such proposed installation or removal, such community board may provide comments regarding such proposed installation or removal to the department.

§ 2. This local law takes effect immediately.

 

 

 

TM/MN

LS 473/Int. 199-2014

LS 612

12/20/2017