Legislation Details

File #: Int 0261-1998    Version: * Name: Speed Bumps, School Buildings
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Transportation
On agenda: 3/26/1998
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring speed humps or other speed control devices on streets adjacent to certain school buildings in order to reduce the speed of vehicular traffic to a maximum of fifteen miles per hour.
Sponsors: Adolfo Carrion, Lucy Cruz, Thomas K. Duane, John Fusco, Guillermo Linares, Martin Malave-Dilan, Bill Perkins, Philip Reed, John D. Sabini, Lawrence A. Warden, Wendell Foster, Julia Harrison, Karen Koslowitz, Sheldon S. Leffler, Walter L. McCaffrey, Stanley E. Michels, Jerome X. O'Donovan, Madeline T. Provenzano, Annette M. Robinson, Priscilla A. Wooten, Morton Povman
Council Member Sponsors: 21
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
12/31/2001*Adolfo Carrion City Council Filed (End of Session)  Action details Meeting details Not available
4/7/1998*Adolfo Carrion Committee on Transportation Laid Over by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
4/7/1998*Adolfo Carrion Committee on Transportation Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
4/6/1998*Adolfo Carrion Legislative Documents Unit Printed Item Laid on Desk  Action details Meeting details Not available
3/26/1998*Adolfo Carrion City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
3/26/1998*Adolfo Carrion City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 261

 

By Council Members Carrion, Cruz, Duane, Fusco, Linares, Malave-Dilan, Perkins, Reed, Sabini and Warden; also Council Members Foster, Harrison, Koslowitz, Leffler, McCaffrey, Michels, O'Donovan, Provenzano, Robinson, Wooten and Povman.

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring speed humps or other speed control devices on streets adjacent to certain school buildings in order to reduce the speed of vehicular traffic to a maximum of fifteen miles per hour.

 

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

Section 1. Title 19 of the administrative code of the City of New York is amended by adding thereto a new chapter 7 to follow chapter 6 and to read as follows:

Chapter 7

Speed control devices

§19-701 a. For purposes of this chapter, (i) "speed hump" shall mean a raised area in the roadway pavement surface extending traversely across the travel way designed to slow vehicular traffic; and

(ii) "School building" shall mean any building or structure or portion thereof, owned, occupied by, or under the custody or control of any public, private or parochial institution and lawfully used for the primary purpose of providing educational instruction to students at or below the ninth grade level.

b. Within one hundred eighty days after the effective date of this subdivision the commissioner shall place and maintain a speed hump or other speed control device on every roadway adjacent to every school building in the city. Such speed humps or speed control devices shall be constructed, placed and maintained in a manner which effectively reduces the velocity of vehicular traffic on such roadways to a maximum of fifteen miles per hour. This subdivision shall not apply to any roadway having a lawful speed limit in excess of thirty miles per hour that is immediately adjacent to a school building where it would be impractical to reduce vehicular speed to fifteen miles per hour on such roadway.

§2. This local law shall take effect immediately after its enactment into law.

 

 

 

 

 

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