Bill Text: NY S02578 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to van accessible handicapped parking.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-06-04 - referred to transportation [S02578 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S02578-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2578
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 13, 2017
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        Introduced  by  Sen. HELMING -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to van accessi-
          ble handicapped parking
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. Subdivision 1 of section 1203-c of the vehicle and traffic
     2  law, as added by chapter 203 of the laws of 1981, is amended to read  as
     3  follows:
     4    1.  (a)  Any  person,  firm or corporation owning a shopping center or
     5  facility with at least five separate retail stores and at  least  twenty
     6  off  street  parking  spaces  which are provided for use by the shopping
     7  public must designate as only for the handicapped and clearly  mark  for
     8  use  by the handicapped a minimum of five percent of such parking spaces
     9  or ten such spaces whichever is less. These spaces must  be  located  as
    10  close  as  reasonably  practicable  to  the shopping center facility and
    11  reasonably distributed so as to provide convenient  access  for  use  by
    12  handicapped  drivers. Such parking spaces are to be used either by hand-
    13  icapped drivers  displaying  a  special  municipal  parking  permit  (as
    14  defined  in section twelve hundred three-a of this [chapter] article and
    15  distributed by the commissioner [of motor vehicles] to  local  governing
    16  bodies  to be issued to handicapped persons who reside in such locality)
    17  or by motor vehicles registered in accordance with section four  hundred
    18  four-a  of this chapter and being used for the transportation of a hand-
    19  icapped person.
    20    (b) One in every eight handicap accessible spaces shall be van  acces-
    21  sible.  Where five or more parking spaces are designated handicap acces-
    22  sible, any space that is designated as van accessible shall be  reserved
    23  for  wheelchair  users only. A van accessible parking space reserved for
    24  wheelchair users shall be at least nine feet  wide  and  shall  have  an
    25  adjacent access aisle that is at least eight feet wide.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08224-01-7
        S. 2578                             2
     1    (c) Van accessible parking spaces shall be at least nine feet wide and
     2  shall have an adjacent access aisle that is at least six feet wide.
     3    (d)  An  access  aisle, as described in paragraphs (b) and (c) of this
     4  subdivision, shall be located on the passenger side of the parking space
     5  except that two adjacent accessible parking spaces may  share  a  common
     6  access aisle.
     7    (e)  A  van  accessible  parking  space  shall have an additional sign
     8  marked "Van Accessible" mounted below the sign. A van accessible parking
     9  space reserved for wheelchair users shall have a sign that includes  the
    10  words "Wheelchair User Only."
    11    (f)  Accessible  parking spaces, decals and signs shall be designed in
    12  compliance with the standards set forth by the municipality.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.