Directs the commissioner of transportation to prohibit the use and installation of certain types of guardrails and rail caps on all state and local highways.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7143--A
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
April 10, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. RYAN -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Transportation -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the highway law, in relation to directing the commis-
sioner of transportation to prohibit use on any state or local highway
of certain types of guardrails
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 10 of the highway law is amended by adding a new
2 subdivision 47 to read as follows:
3 47. Promulgate rules and regulations prohibiting the use and installa-
4 tion, on any state or local highway, of any "X-Lite" guardrail or rail
5 cap manufactured by the Lindsay Corporation, or any other guardrail or
6 rail cap of similar design and/or materials as determined by the commis-
7 sioner. Additionally, the department shall immediately act to remove
8 any existing "X-Lite" guardrail or rail cap manufactured by the Lindsay
9 Corporation, or any other guardrail or rail cap of similar design and/or
10 materials as determined by the commissioner.
11 § 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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