Directs the commissioner of transportation to prohibit the use and installation of certain types of guardrails and rail caps on highways with a speed limit of 45 miles per hour or more.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5423
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 27, 2017
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Introduced by Sen. YOUNG -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
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
with a speed limit of forty-five miles per hour or more, 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 having a speed limit of forty-five
5 mils per hour or more, of any "X-Lite" guardrail or rail cap manufac-
6 tured by the Lindsay Corporation, or any other guardrail or rail cap of
7 similar design and/or materials as determined by the commissioner.
8 § 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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