Bill Text: NY A01425 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Enacts the open driveway act; prohibits the blocking of an alleyway or driveway by one party without the consent of the other, or by another person where the title of real property provides for a common access way; defines the term "blocking".

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to transportation [A01425 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A01425-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1425
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 15, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M.  of A. PERRY -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. AUBRY,
          COOK -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation
        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to enacting the
          Open Driveway Act
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  This  act  shall  be  known and may be cited as the "Open
     2  Driveway Act".
     3    § 2. Section 237 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a
     4  new subdivision 16 to read as follows:
     5    16. (a) To promulgate any rules and regulations where  title  of  real
     6  property  provides for a common access way including but not limited to,
     7  a driveway or alley, blocking of the alleyway or driveway by  one  party
     8  without  the  consent  of  the  other,  or by another person without the
     9  consent of both parties, and in the case of  an  alleyway,  the  act  of
    10  blocking  shall  be subject to local parking regulations as applies to a
    11  public street or roadway on the filing of a complaint by one or  any  of
    12  the parties who holds a title of ownership.
    13    (b)  For the purposes of this section, "blocking" shall mean the park-
    14  ing, leaving or standing of a motor vehicle or other object or  obstacle
    15  in  the driveway or alleyway in such a manner that a clear passageway is
    16  not available for access and egress of any other  automobile  authorized
    17  to  use such driveway or alleyway, or garages or parking spaces accessed
    18  through such driveway or alleyway.
    19    § 3. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
    20  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06657-01-9