S1205A-2011 Actions

• Jan 4, 2012: REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION
• Mar 23, 2011: PRINT NUMBER 1205A
• Mar 23, 2011: AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO TRANSPORTATION
• Jan 5, 2011: REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

S1205A-2011 Memo

BILL NUMBER:S1205A

TITLE OF BILL:
An act
to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to designation of
highways and public lands for travel by ATVs

PURPOSE:
To allow ATVs to travel on certain highways and roads in order to gain
access to nearby trails.

SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section one of the bill amends subdivision one of section 2405 of the
vehicle and traffic law to allow a governmental agency or
municipality to designate a state highway or a highway controlled by
a governmental agency as open for travel by ATVs in order to gain
access to areas or trails near such highways if so determined.

JUSTIFICATION:
This legislation would allow municipalities, by local option, to
designate their public highways and/or portions thereof, as open for
travel by ATVs in order to gain access to areas or trails adjacent
to such highways. In some areas of the state, using these roads is
really the only way to gain access to nearby trails.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
S.1625 Third Reading Cal./A.1082 Transportation Committee

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
None to the state.

EFFECTIVE DATE:
Immediate.

S1205A-2011 Text

 S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 
 1205--A
 2011-2012 Regular Sessions
 I N  SENATE
 January 5, 2011
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  GRIFFO, LITTLE -- read twice and ordered printed,
 and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation -
 committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended  and
 recommitted to said committee
 AN  ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to designation
 of highways and public lands for travel by ATVs
 THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

 

Section  1.  Subdivision  1 of section 2405 of the vehicle and traffic
 law, as added by chapter 402 of the laws of 1986, is amended to read  as
 follows:

 1.  Highways. Except with respect to interstate highways or controlled
 access highways, [the department of transportation with  respect  to]  A
 GOVERNMENTAL  AGENCY  OR  MUNICIPALITY  MAY DESIGNATE A state [highways]
 HIGHWAY, maintained by the state [and any other governmental agency with
 respect to highways], OR A HIGHWAY MAINTAINED BY A GOVERNMENTAL  AGENCY,
 including  bridge  and  culvert  crossings,  under its jurisdiction [may
 designate and] AS OPEN FOR TRAVEL BY ATVS IN ORDER  TO  GAIN  ACCESS  TO
 AREAS  OR  TRAILS ADJACENT TO SUCH HIGHWAYS AND THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANS
 PORTATION SHALL post any such public highway or portion thereof as  open
 for travel by ATVs [when in the determination of the governmental agency
 concerned,  it is otherwise impossible for ATVs] to gain access to areas
 or trails adjacent to the highway.  Such designations by a state  agency
 shall  be  by  rule  or regulation, and such designations by any munici
 pality other than a state agency shall be by local law or ordinance.
 

S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD01686-02-1

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