Int 0261-1998

Be it enacted by the Council as follows: Section 1. Title 19 of the administrative code of the City of New York is amended by adding thereto a new chapter 7 to follow chapter 6 and to read as follows: Chapter 7 Speed control devices �19-701 a. For purposes of this chapter, (i) "speed hump" shall mean a raised area in the roadway pavement surface extending traversely across the travel way designed to slow vehicular traffic; and (ii) "School building" shall mean any building or structure or portion thereof, owned, occupied by, or under the custody or control of any public, private or parochial institution and lawfully used for the primary purpose of providing educational instruction to students at or below the ninth grade level. b. Within one hundred eighty days after the effective date of this subdivision the commissioner shall place and maintain a speed hump or other speed control device on every roadway adjacent to every school building in the city. Such speed humps or speed control devices shall be constructed, placed and maintained in a manner which effectively reduces the velocity of vehicular traffic on such roadways to a maximum of fifteen miles per hour. This subdivision shall not apply to any roadway having a lawful speed limit in excess of thirty miles per hour that is immediately adjacent to a school building where it would be impractical to reduce vehicular speed to fifteen miles per hour on such roadway. �2. This local law shall take effect immediately after its enactment into law. JJ/JH:ts LS #168 3/23/98 12:30 pm - 2 -