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                                   5154
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 6, 2017
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 Introduced  by M. of A. McDONOUGH, KOLB, FINCH -- read once and referred
   to the Committee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to van accessi-
   ble handicapped parking
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1. Subdivision 1 of section 1203-c of the vehicle and traffic
 law, as added by chapter 203 of the laws of 1981, is amended to read  as
 follows:
   1.  (A)  Any  person,  firm or corporation owning a shopping center or
 facility with at least five separate retail stores and at  least  twenty
 off  street  parking  spaces  which are provided for use by the shopping
 public must designate as only for the handicapped and clearly  mark  for
 use  by the handicapped a minimum of five percent of such parking spaces
 or ten such spaces whichever is less. These spaces must  be  located  as
 close  as  reasonably  practicable  to  the shopping center facility and
 reasonably distributed so as to provide convenient  access  for  use  by
 handicapped  drivers. Such parking spaces are to be used either by hand-
 icapped drivers  displaying  a  special  municipal  parking  permit  (as
 defined  in section twelve hundred three-a of this [chapter] ARTICLE and
 distributed by the commissioner [of motor vehicles] to  local  governing
 bodies  to be issued to handicapped persons who reside in such locality)
 or by motor vehicles registered in accordance with section four  hundred
 four-a  of this chapter and being used for the transportation of a hand-
 icapped person.
   (B) ONE IN EVERY EIGHT HANDICAP ACCESSIBLE SPACES SHALL BE VAN  ACCES-
 SIBLE.  WHERE FIVE OR MORE PARKING SPACES ARE DESIGNATED HANDICAP ACCES-
 SIBLE, ANY SPACE THAT IS DESIGNATED AS VAN ACCESSIBLE SHALL BE  RESERVED
 FOR  WHEELCHAIR  USERS ONLY. A VAN ACCESSIBLE PARKING SPACE RESERVED FOR
 WHEELCHAIR USERS SHALL BE AT LEAST NINE FEET  WIDE  AND  SHALL  HAVE  AN
 ADJACENT ACCESS AISLE THAT IS AT LEAST EIGHT FEET WIDE.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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   (C) VAN ACCESSIBLE PARKING SPACES SHALL BE AT LEAST NINE FEET WIDE AND
 SHALL HAVE AN ADJACENT ACCESS AISLE THAT IS AT LEAST SIX FEET WIDE.
   (D)  AN  ACCESS  AISLE, AS DESCRIBED IN PARAGRAPHS (B) AND (C) OF THIS
 SUBDIVISION, SHALL BE LOCATED ON THE PASSENGER SIDE OF THE PARKING SPACE
 EXCEPT THAT TWO ADJACENT ACCESSIBLE PARKING SPACES MAY  SHARE  A  COMMON
 ACCESS AISLE.
   (E)  A  VAN  ACCESSIBLE  PARKING  SPACE  SHALL HAVE AN ADDITIONAL SIGN
 MARKED "VAN ACCESSIBLE" MOUNTED BELOW THE SIGN. A VAN ACCESSIBLE PARKING
 SPACE RESERVED FOR WHEELCHAIR USERS SHALL HAVE A SIGN THAT INCLUDES  THE
 WORDS "WHEELCHAIR USER ONLY."
   (F)  ACCESSIBLE  PARKING SPACES, DECALS AND SIGNS SHALL BE DESIGNED IN
 COMPLIANCE WITH THE STANDARDS SET FORTH BY THE MUNICIPALITY.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.