File #: Int 0700-2008    Version: * Name: Requiring countdown pedestrian signals at intersections with traffic-control signal photo violation-monitoring systems.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Transportation
On agenda: 2/13/2008
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring countdown pedestrian signals at intersections with traffic-control signal photo violation-monitoring systems.
Sponsors: Vincent Ignizio, Gale A. Brewer, Letitia James, G. Oliver Koppell, Rosie Mendez, Kendall Stewart, Thomas White, Jr.
Council Member Sponsors: 7

Int. No. 700

 

By Council Members Ignizio, Brewer, James, Koppell, Mendez, Stewart and White Jr.

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring countdown pedestrian signals at intersections with traffic-control signal photo violation-monitoring systems.

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

                     Section 1.  Chapter one of title 19 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 19-210.1 to read as follows:

§19-210.1  a.  For the purposes of this section, the term “countdown pedestrian signal,” shall mean a standard pedestrian-control signal with an added display showing a countdown of the remaining crossing time.

b.  At any intersection with a traffic-control signal photo violation-monitoring system and standard pedestrian-control signal, the department shall replace such standard pedestrian-control signal with a countdown pedestrian signal.

§2.  This local law shall take effect ninety days after it is enacted into law.

 

 

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