Enacts "Erin's Law"; requires crosswalks near athletic fields and playgrounds abutting roads; does not apply to restricted highways or where installation of a crosswalk would lead to an area that is unsafe for pedestrian traffic.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2685
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 20, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. STECK -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to crosswalks
near athletic fields and playgrounds
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as "Erin's law".
2 § 2. The general municipal law is amended by adding a new section 137
3 to read as follows:
4 § 137. Crosswalks near athletic fields and playgrounds. 1. Notwith-
5 standing any other provision of law to the contrary, there shall be at
6 least one crosswalk, as defined in section one hundred ten of the vehi-
7 cle and traffic law, located across each road that abuts an athletic
8 field or playground.
9 2. There shall be located at each crosswalk required by this section
10 one or more pedestrian signs (R9-8) or yield to pedestrian signs
11 (R1-5a), compliant with the manual on uniform traffic control devices,
12 visible to each direction of traffic alerting drivers to yield to pedes-
13 trians in the crosswalk.
14 3. This section shall not apply to restricted highways.
15 4. This section shall not apply where the installation of a crosswalk
16 would lead to an area that is unsafe for pedestrian traffic.
17 § 3. This act shall take effect eighteen months after it shall have
18 become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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