STATE OF NEW YORK
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7409
IN SENATE
April 29, 2016
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Introduced by Sen. MURPHY -- (at request of the Department of Transpor-
tation) -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be
committed to the Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the railroad law, in relation to requiring joint
inspection of traffic signals
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The railroad law is amended by adding a new section 53-f to
2 read as follows:
3 § 53-f. Joint inspection of traffic signals. 1. Notwithstanding the
4 provisions of any other law to the contrary, the commissioner is author-
5 ized to establish, implement, and exercise oversight over a program of
6 inspection of traffic control devices interconnected with highway-rail
7 at grade crossing warning systems.
8 2. Pursuant to the program established under subdivision one of this
9 section, the department of transportation shall establish a procedure
10 applicable to every railroad corporation and each municipality having
11 jurisdiction of a highway on which there is an at grade rail crossing.
12 Such procedure shall provide for the coordinated operation and biennial
13 inspection of any traffic control devices interconnected with a high-
14 way-rail at grade crossing warning system.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
16 it shall have become a law; provided that, effective immediately, the
17 commissioner of transportation is authorized to promulgate any rules or
18 regulations necessary for the implementation of this act on its effec-
19 tive date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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