Bill Text: NY S06461 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to the use of locomotive horns at private highway-rail grade crossings.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S06461 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S06461-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          6461

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      June 12, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. AMEDORE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

        AN ACT to amend the railroad law, in relation to the use  of  locomotive
          horns  at  private highway-rail grade crossings; and to repeal section
          53-b of such law relating to ringing bells  and  blowing  whistles  at
          crossings

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 53-b of the railroad law  is  REPEALED  and  a  new
     2  section 53-b is added to read as follows:
     3    §  53-b.  Use  of  locomotive  horns  at  crossings.  Unless otherwise
     4  required by federal law or regulation, at a private  highway-rail  grade
     5  crossing, a locomotive engineer may sound the locomotive horn to provide
     6  a  warning  to  animals,  vehicle operators, pedestrians, trespassers or
     7  crews on other trains in an emergency situation if,  in  the  locomotive
     8  engineer's sole judgment, such action is appropriate in order to prevent
     9  imminent injury, death, or property damage.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13247-01-9
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