Int 0860-2022

Be it enacted by the Council as follows: Section 1. Section 19-185 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law number 14 for the year 2011, is amended to read as follows: � 19-185 Traffic study determinations. a. Definition. As used in this section, the term "traffic study" means any study conducted by the department on traffic control devices that are regulated by the manual on uniform traffic control devices or on the proposed installation of such devices. b. No later than 14 days after receiving a request from a council member or community board for a traffic study, the department shall conduct a traffic study if no such study has been conducted in connection with the same traffic control devices within 18 months preceding such request. c. If the department has conducted a traffic study within the 18 months preceding such request, the department shall compare the traffic conditions at the time of the request to the traffic conditions during the last traffic study, and if there have been material changes, the department shall conduct a new traffic study. If there have been no material changes, the department shall in every such case provide a written statement to the requestor stating that the conditions for the requested traffic study have not materially changed from the previously conducted traffic study. d. The department shall include with any determination denying a request by a community board or council member for a traffic study or traffic control device regulated by the manual on uniform traffic control devices, a summary of the traffic control device warrants, along with the data and time that the department performed its traffic analysis and the time period of any crash data considered by the department for such warrants. Such denial shall also include the following language: "A summary of the studies and reports that led to this determination will be provided upon request." Upon such request by the community board or council member after receiving the denial the department shall provide a summary of the previous or recent traffic studies [and/or] and reports performed by the department. The department shall provide the summary of the traffic studies and reports within 2 weeks of such a request. � 2. This local law takes effect immediately. PS LS #10643 12/13/22 5:30pm 2 2