Prohibits a traffic-control signal from displaying a green light for traffic while a pedestrian-control device is displaying a signal indicating walk or a symbol of a walking person.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5242--A
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 7, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. DenDEKKER, M. G. MILLER, SAYEGH, COLTON, COOK,
DARLING -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. MORINELLO -- read once and
referred to the Committee on Cities -- recommitted to the Committee on
Cities in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee
discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
to said committee
AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in
relation to requiring that no traffic-control signal shall indicate a
green light for traffic while a pedestrian-control signal at such
intersection displays a signal indicating walk for the pedestrian
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The administrative code of the city of New York is amended
2 by adding a new section 19-196.1 to read as follows:
3 § 19-196.1 Pedestrian-control signals. No traffic-control signal
4 shall indicate a green light for traffic while a pedestrian-control
5 signal at such intersection displays a signal indicating walk or a
6 steady walking person.
7 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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