File #: Int 0524-2024    Version: * Name: Requiring the placement of temporary priority regulatory signs at intersections within one hour of a report of an inoperable traffic control signal.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Health
On agenda: 3/7/2024
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the placement of temporary priority regulatory signs at intersections within one hour of a report of an inoperable traffic control signal
Sponsors: Justin L. Brannan, Kalman Yeger , Shahana K. Hanif
Council Member Sponsors: 3
Summary: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the placement of temporary priority regulatory signs at intersections within one hour of a report of an inoperable traffic control signal
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 524, 2. Int. No. 524, 3. March 7, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 3-7-24

Int. No. 524

 

By Council Members Brannan, Yeger and Hanif

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the placement of temporary priority regulatory signs at intersections within one hour of a report of an inoperable traffic control signal

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Subdivision e of section 19-128 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law number 22 for the year 2014, is amended to read as follows:

e. Within [twenty-four hours] one hour of receiving notice that a traffic control signal is missing or damaged to the extent that such signal is not operational or visible to a motorist who must obey or rely upon such signal the department shall place a temporary priority regulatory sign at the location of the missing or damaged traffic control signal. Within 24 hours, the department shall:

(i) repair or replace such signal, at which point the department may remove the temporary sign if applicable,

(ii) implement additional alternative measures to control traffic if such repair or replacement will take [greater] more than [twenty-four] 24 hours, or

(iii) make a determination that repair or replacement is not warranted, at which point the department may remove the temporary sign.

§ 2. This local law takes effect 180 days after it becomes law.

 

 

 

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