File #: Int 1763-2019    Version: Name: Motor vehicles overtaking bicycles.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed (End of Session)
Committee: Committee on Transportation
On agenda: 10/17/2019
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to motor vehicles overtaking bicycles
Sponsors: Ydanis A. Rodriguez, Ben Kallos, Antonio Reynoso, Stephen T. Levin, Tiffany Cabán
Council Member Sponsors: 5
Summary: This bill would require drivers of motor vehicles to maintain a minimum distance of three feet when overtaking a bicycle, and provide for a traffic violation for a driver that makes contact with a bicyclist while failing to exercise due care and failing to maintain the three foot distance.
Indexes: Agency Rule-making Required
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1763-A, 2. Summary of Int. No. 1763, 3. Int. No. 1763, 4. October 17, 2019 - Stated Meeting Agenda with Links to Files, 5. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 10-17-19, 6. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - October 17, 2019, 7. Committee Report 10/24/19, 8. Hearing Testimony 10/24/19, 9. Hearing Transcript 10/24/19, 10. Proposed Int. No. 1763-A - 12/2/21
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12/31/2021AYdanis A. Rodriguez City Council Filed (End of Session)  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/24/2019*Ydanis A. Rodriguez Committee on Public Safety Laid Over by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/24/2019*Ydanis A. Rodriguez Committee on Public Safety Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/24/2019*Ydanis A. Rodriguez Committee on Transportation Laid Over by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/24/2019*Ydanis A. Rodriguez Committee on Transportation Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/17/2019*Ydanis A. Rodriguez City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/17/2019*Ydanis A. Rodriguez City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Proposed Int. No. 1763-A

 

By Council Members Rodriguez, Kallos, Reynoso, Levin and Cabán

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to motor vehicles overtaking bicycles

 

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 19-190.1 to read as follows:

§ 19-190.1 Vehicles overtaking bicycles. a. The driver of a motor vehicle overtaking a bicycle proceeding on the same side of a street shall leave a distance of not less than three feet between the motor vehicle and the bicycle and shall maintain such distance until such vehicle has passed the bicycle.

b. A driver of a motor vehicle who makes contact with a bicycle or bicyclist while failing to exercise due care and violating subdivision a of this section shall be guilty of a traffic infraction.

§ 2. This local law takes effect 120 days after it becomes law, except that the department shall take such measures as are necessary for the implementation of this local law, including the promulgation of rules, before such date.

 

 

 

 

 

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LS # 4622

12/1/2021 5:00PM