Requires access aisles of handicapped accessible parking spaces to be at least eight feet wide.

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S3170-2011 Actions

• May 21, 2012: SUBSTITUTED BY A3363
• Apr 25, 2012: ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
• Apr 19, 2012: 2ND REPORT CAL.
• Apr 18, 2012: 1ST REPORT CAL.547
• Jan 4, 2012: REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION
• Feb 10, 2011: REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

S3170-2011 Meetings

Transportation: Apr 18, 2012

S3170-2011 Calendars

Active List: May 21, 2012 , Floor Calendar: Apr 19, 2012 , Floor Calendar: Apr 25, 2012 , Floor Calendar: Apr 26, 2012 , Floor Calendar: Apr 30, 2012 , Floor Calendar: May 1, 2012 , Floor Calendar: May 2, 2012 , Floor Calendar: May 7, 2012 , Floor Calendar: May 8, 2012 , Floor Calendar: May 9, 2012 , Floor Calendar: May 14, 2012 , Floor Calendar: May 15, 2012 , Floor Calendar: May 16, 2012 , Floor Calendar: May 21, 2012

S3170-2011 Votes

S3170-2011 Memo

BILL NUMBER:S3170

TITLE OF BILL:
An act
to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to providing that
access aisles of handicapped accessible parking spaces have to be at
least eight feet wide

PURPOSE:
To ensure that access aisles of handicapped parking spaces
are wide enough for people with disabilities to enter and exit their
vehicles.

SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:
This bill amends paragraph (b) of
subdivision 2 of section 1203-c of the vehicle and traffic law, as
amended by chapter 350 of the laws of 1993 by adding that parking
spaces that are designated for handicapped parking shall be eight
feet wide and that this law also extends to, not only off street
parking, but parking garages as well.

JUSTIFICATION:
Access aisles that lie adjacent to handicapped
accessible parking spaces are there for the purpose of allowing
disabled persons, many times wheelchair users, to get into and out of
their vehicles. Often times, these vehicles have ramps or lifts that
extend quite a ways out the side door of the vehicle.

Eight feet is just enough space to allow wheelchair users to open the
side door of their vehicles, extend the lift or ramp, and still have
enough room to get off of the lift platform or ramp and turn. Any
less amount of space than eight feet in width might not allow
wheelchair users to maneuver between their vehicle and the vehicle
parked next to theirs.

This bill is intended to reaffirm and place in state statute the
current size requirements of access aisles listed under the New York
State Uniform Fire Prevention and Building Code. It is important to
protect the eight-foot width obligation in state law because building
code requirements change periodically, and current Americans with
Disabilities Act requirements call for a majority of access aisles to
be only five feet wide.

PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
A.9693 (2000)    - Referred to Transportation
A.4625 (2001-02) - Passed Assembly
A.5476 (2003-04) - Passed Assembly
A.7337 (2005-06) - Passed Assembly
A.7111 (2007-08) - Passed Assembly
A.7849 (2009-10) - Passed Assembly

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
None

EFFECTIVE DATE:


This act shall take effect on the
ninetieth day after it shall have become law.

S3170-2011 Text

                      S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
  ________________________________________________________________________

                                    3170

                         2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                              I N  SENATE

                              February 10, 2011
                                 ___________

  Introduced  by Sen. McDONALD -- 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  providing
    that access aisles of handicapped accessible parking spaces have to be
    at least eight feet wide

    THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
  BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


    Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 2 of  section  1203-c  of  the
  vehicle  and traffic law, as amended by chapter 207 of the laws of 2010,
  is amended to read as follows:

    (b) Whenever a person, firm or corporation creates an off-street park-
  ing lot or parking garage, or repaves or repaints more than one-half  of
  the total number of parking spaces in an off-street parking lot or park-
  ing  garage,  which  contains  designated handicapped parking spaces, or
  creates designated handicapped parking spaces in an  off-street  parking
  lot  or parking garage, or repaves or repaints more than one-half of the
  total number of designated handicapped parking spaces in  an  off-street
  parking lot or parking garage, [specifications as to] the size of desig-
  nated  handicapped  parking  spaces  and  designated handicapped parking
  space access aisles EACH shall be [in accordance with  the  requirements
  of  the  New  York  state  uniform fire prevention and building code] AT
  LEAST EIGHT FEET WIDE. Such access aisles  also  shall  be  (i)  clearly
  designated  with conspicuous and permanently installed above grade signs
  which shall read "No Parking Anytime" and which shall be positioned from
  the access aisle surface at a height of not less than five feet nor more
  than seven feet, and (ii) marked with diagonal stripes.
    S 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
  have become a law.


   EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                        [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                             LBD06978-01-1