File #: Int 1217-2018    Version: * Name: Deployment of traffic enforcement agents near schools during drop-off and pick-up of students.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed (End of Session)
Committee: Committee on Public Safety
On agenda: 11/14/2018
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to deployment of traffic enforcement agents near schools during drop-off and pick-up of students
Sponsors: Laurie A. Cumbo, Kalman Yeger
Council Member Sponsors: 2
Summary: This bill would require that the New York Police Department deploy at least one Traffic Enforcement Agent (“TEA”) to direct traffic within 100 feet of every public or private school, K-12, with at least 250 students. The TEA would direct traffic two hours before the beginning of the school day, and 30 minutes after the beginning of the school day. The TEA would also direct traffic 30 minutes before the end of the school day and two hours after the end of the school day.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1217, 2. Int. No. 1217, 3. November 14, 2018 - Stated Meeting Agenda with Links to Files, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 11-14-2018, 5. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - November 14, 2018

Int. No. 1217

 

By Council Members Cumbo and Yeger

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to deployment of traffic enforcement agents near schools during drop-off and pick-up of students

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Chapter 1 of title 14 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 14-118.3 to read as follows:

§ 14-118.3 Traffic enforcement agents near schools. a. Definitions. For the purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings:

Traffic enforcement agent. The term “traffic enforcement agent” means an employee of the department who is authorized to enforce laws and regulations that regulate, direct, control or restrict the movement of vehicular and pedestrian traffic.

School. The term “school” means any building, ground, facility, property or portion thereof in which educational instruction is provided to at least 250 students at or below the twelfth grade level.

b. For each day on which school is in session, the commissioner shall deploy at least one traffic enforcement agent to direct traffic within 100 feet of every school for a period commencing two hours before the start of the school day and ending 30 minutes after the start of the school day, and a period commencing 30 minutes before the end of the school day and ending two hours after the end of the school day.

§ 2. This local law takes effect 120 days after it becomes law.

 

 

 

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LS #8025/8127

10/04/18