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Int 0514-1999

Removal of Snow From Vehicles

IntroductionFiledCommittee on Transportationintroduced 1999-02-10

Filed — closed without being enacted.

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Agenda: 1999-02-10Passed: 2001-12-31
Committee on TransportationMass Transportation Agencies and facilities, Department of Transportation and New York City Transit Authority.

How it compares

6% of similar bills passed

3 passed · 47 died

This bill: 1055 days in committee

Similar bills: median 924 days · 216 days when passed

Sponsors (3)

Lloyd Henry(prime)
Alphonse Stabile
Mary Pinkett

Lifecycle

IntroducedIntroduced by Council
1999-02-10 · City Council
ActionReferred to Comm by Council
1999-02-10 · City Council
ActionPrinted Item Laid on Desk
1999-02-25 · Legislative Documents Unit
ClosedFiled (End of Session)
2001-12-31 · City Council
Full text
Be it enacted by the Council as follows: Section 1. Chapter one of title 19 is amended by adding a new section 19-171 to read as follows: �19-171 Prohibition on operating motor vehicles with snow and ice. No person shall operate a motor vehicle on any street, road or highway unless all surfaces of the vehicle have been cleared of snow and ice within twelve hours after cessation of a snowfall. Failure to comply with this section shall be a traffic infraction punishable in accordance with section eighteen hundred of the vehicle and traffic law. This section shall not require the driver of a motor vehicle to cease operation while snow or ice is accumulating. �2. This local law shall take effect immediately. LS#1146 01/25/99 JJ:ts