Authorizes the posting by each municipality of turtle crossing signs on local roads located within such municipality; empowers the state commissioner of transportation to develop and implement rules and regulations authorizing municipalities to post turtle crossing signs on local roads located within the municipality.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6401
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 27, 2021
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Introduced by Sen. GAUGHRAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government
AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to authorizing
the posting by each municipality of turtle crossing signs on local
roads located within such municipality; and to amend the transporta-
tion law, in relation to empowering the state commissioner of trans-
portation to develop and implement rules and regulations authorizing
each municipality to post turtle crossing signs on local roads located
within such municipality
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The general municipal law is amended by adding a new
2 section 72-s to read as follows:
3 § 72-s. Wildlife caution signs. Each municipal corporation, acting
4 through its governing board, may, by resolution or local law, authorize
5 the posting by such municipality of turtle crossing signs on local roads
6 situated within such municipality in conformity with regulations promul-
7 gated by the state commissioner of transportation pursuant to subdivi-
8 sion thirty-six of section fourteen of the transportation law.
9 § 2. Section 14 of the transportation law is amended by adding a new
10 subdivision 36 to read as follows:
11 36. To develop and implement rules and regulations authorizing each
12 municipal corporation, as defined in section two of the general munici-
13 pal law, to post turtle crossing signs on local roads situated within
14 such municipality in accordance with the provisions of section seventy-
15 two-s of the general municipal law. Such regulations shall assure that
16 the signs shall be in conformity with rules and regulations promulgated
17 by the Federal Highway Administration regarding warning or caution
18 signs.
19 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD06538-01-1
