NYC Administrative Code

§ 19-181 — Safety inspections at locations exhibiting a pattern of crashes involving pedestrians and/or bicyclists.

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What is NYC AC § 19-181?

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This section mandates safety inspections at locations with a history of serious injuries or fatalities involving pedestrians or bicyclists. The Department is required to conduct inspections within specified timeframes and to make inspection results available to the public. Applies to locations with a pattern of traffic incidents affecting pedestrians and bicyclists.

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§ 19-181 Safety inspections at locations exhibiting a pattern of crashes involving pedestrians and/or bicyclists.

AC § 19-181

a. Within ninety days of receiving access to New York state department of motor vehicles traffic crash data involving pedestrians and/or bicyclists, the department shall inspect every location with four or more serious injuries or fatalities involving pedestrians and/or bicyclists during the prior five-year period. b. Within ninety days of notice of a traffic crash involving a fatality, the department shall conduct an inspection of the traffic crash location. c. The department shall act upon any inspection recommendations, if warranted. d. The department shall make the results of the inspections required under subdivisions a and b or any actions required by subdivision c of this section available upon request to the public. e. For purposes of this section, "serious injury" shall mean those injuries categorized as "A" injuries by the New York state department of motor vehicles.

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