Requires the DOT to determine which entrances to parkways in Westchester county are most frequently accessed by oversized commercial vehicles and to install certain barriers to prevent such vehicles from accessing such entrances.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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654--A
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY(Prefiled)
January 7, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. ABINANTI -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Transportation -- recommitted to the Committee on Transporta-
tion in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee
discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
to said committee
AN ACT to require the department of transportation to determine which
entrances to parkways in the county of Westchester are most frequently
accessed by oversized commercial vehicles and to install certain
barriers to prevent such vehicles from accessing such entrances
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The New York state department of transportation is hereby
2 authorized and directed, within one hundred twenty days of the enactment
3 of this act, to study and determine which entrances to special parkways
4 in the county of Westchester are most frequently accessed by commercial
5 motor vehicles and, within one year of making such determination, to
6 install physical barriers to prevent or otherwise hinder such commercial
7 motor vehicles from accessing such special parkway entrances.
8 2. The commissioner of transportation may request, and is authorized
9 to receive, from any department, division, board, bureau, commission or
10 other agency of the state or any state public authority such information
11 and data as will enable the department of transportation to properly
12 conduct its study and make its determination. Such information and data
13 received by the department of transportation shall be subject to the
14 same requirements for confidentiality and limitations on use, if any, as
15 are applicable to the use of such information and data by the depart-
16 ment, division, board, bureau, commission or other agency of the state
17 or state public authority which provided such information and data.
18 3. For the purposes of this act, the following terms shall have the
19 following meanings:
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 (a) "commercial motor vehicle" shall have the same meaning as such
2 term is defined in subdivision 4 of section 501-a of the vehicle and
3 traffic law, provided that such vehicle is also of a height that exceeds
4 the clearance of bridges located on such special parkways; and
5 (b) "special parkways" shall mean the roadways within the county of
6 Westchester designated and set forth in section 70 of the transportation
7 law.
8 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
