STATE OF NEW YORK
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5719
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 13, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. JACKSON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to certain factors
considered in the determination of hazardous child safety zones
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 3635-b of the education law, as
2 amended by chapter 403 of the laws of 1992, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 3. The commissioner of transportation shall establish regulations for
5 determination of a hazardous zone including, but not limited to, such
6 factors as the existence or nonexistence of sidewalks or walkways, the
7 type of road surface, width of road, footpath or sidewalk, the volume
8 and average speed of traffic, density of population, violent crime
9 statistics, density of vacant buildings or structures, the commercial,
10 industrial or residential character of the area and the existence or
11 nonexistence of traffic safety features such as traffic lights, street
12 lights and traffic patrols. In preparing such regulations, the commis-
13 sioner of transportation shall consult with the commissioners of educa-
14 tion and motor vehicles and representatives from the state police who
15 have traffic safety responsibilities. Such regulations shall be used by
16 boards of education in determining whether a hazardous zone exists.
17 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD10894-01-9
