Amends provisions regarding certain off street parking for the handicapped (in a shopping center or facility with at least 5 separate retail stores and at least 20 off street parking spaces for use by the public) to require certain ramp cuts: where the designated handicapped parking spaces are separated from the shopping center or facility by a curb or a barrier, at least one ramp cut must be provided with an additional ramp cut for every 100 feet of curb; provides that ramp cuts should be located as close as reasonably practicable to the designated handicapped parking spaces.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3936
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 7, 2009
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Introduced by Sen. OPPENHEIMER -- read twice and ordered printed, and
when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to parking for
the handicapped
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 1203-c of the vehicle and traffic
2 law, as added by chapter 203 of the laws of 1981, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 1. Any person, firm or corporation owning a shopping center or facil-
5 ity with at least five separate retail stores and at least twenty off
6 street parking spaces which are provided for use by the shopping public
7 must designate as only for the handicapped and clearly mark for use by
8 the handicapped a minimum of five percent of such parking spaces or ten
9 such spaces whichever is less. These spaces must be located as close as
10 reasonably practicable to the shopping center facility and reasonably
11 distributed so as to provide convenient access for use by handicapped
12 drivers. Such parking spaces are to be used either by handicapped driv-
13 ers displaying a special municipal parking permit (as defined in section
14 twelve hundred three-a of this [chapter] article and distributed by the
15 commissioner [of motor vehicles] to local governing bodies to be issued
16 to handicapped persons who reside in such locality) or by motor vehicles
17 registered in accordance with section four hundred four-a of this chap-
18 ter and being used for the transportation of a handicapped person.
19 Where the parking spaces designated pursuant to the provisions of this
20 section are separated from the shopping center or facility by a curb or
21 a barrier at least one ramp cut must be provided with an additional ramp
22 cut required for every hundred feet of curb. Ramp cuts should be located
23 as close as reasonably practicable to the parking spaces designated
24 pursuant to this section.
25 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of September in the year
26 next succeeding the year in which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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