File #: Int 0199-2014    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: 3/26/2014
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, Margaret S. Chin, Mathieu Eugene, Vincent J. Gentile, Corey D. Johnson, Rory I. Lancman, Mark Levine, Rosie Mendez, Deborah L. Rose, Paul A. Vallone, Karen Koslowitz, Helen K. Rosenthal, Daniel R. Garodnick, Eric A. Ulrich
Council Member Sponsors: 14

Int. No. 199

 

By Council Members Koo, Chin, Eugene, Gentile, Johnson, Lancman, Levine, Mendez, Rose, Vallone, Koslowitz, Rosenthal, Garodnick and Ulrich

 

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 19-190 to read as follows:

                     § 19-190  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" shall have the same meaning as in section 19-183 of this subchapter. 

                     b. Not less than forty-five 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 shall take effect immediately.

 

 

 

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LS 473/2014

Int 1124/2013

2/19/14