Florida Senate - 2024                                     SB 980
       
       
        
       By Senator Perry
       
       
       
       
       
       9-00878A-24                                            2024980__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to traffic and pedestrian safety;
    3         creating s. 316.0756, F.S.; requiring that all plans
    4         submitted on or after a specified date for
    5         construction of a pedestrian crosswalk on a public
    6         highway, street, or road which is located at any point
    7         other than at an intersection with another public
    8         highway, street, or road must include traffic control
    9         signal devices and pedestrian control signals that
   10         conform to specified requirements; providing
   11         coordination requirements for such devices and signals
   12         requiring that such devices and signals be coordinated
   13         to meet specified requirements; requiring, by a
   14         specified date, that the entity with jurisdiction over
   15         a public highway, street, or road with a certain
   16         pedestrian crosswalk either ensure that the crosswalk
   17         is controlled by coordinated traffic control signal
   18         devices and pedestrian control signals or remove any
   19         such crosswalk; providing a declaration of important
   20         state interest; providing an effective date.
   21          
   22  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   24         Section 1. Section 316.0756, Florida Statutes, is created
   25  to read:
   26         316.0756 Traffic control signal devices and pedestrian
   27  control signals at crosswalks other than at intersections.—
   28         (1) Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, all plans
   29  submitted on or after July 1, 2024, for the construction of a
   30  pedestrian crosswalk on a public highway, street, or road which
   31  is located at any point other than at an intersection with
   32  another public highway, street, or road must include coordinated
   33  traffic control signal devices and pedestrian control signals
   34  that conform with the requirements of chapters 4D and 4E of the
   35  most recent Federal Highway Administration’s Manual on Uniform
   36  Traffic Control Devices and other applicable Department of
   37  Transportation specifications. Traffic control signal devices
   38  and pedestrian control signals at crosswalk locations as
   39  described in this section must be coordinated to meet all of the
   40  following requirements:
   41         (a) Vehicular traffic approaching the crosswalk must come
   42  to a complete stop before pedestrians are allowed to enter the
   43  crosswalk.
   44         (b) Traffic control signal devices at intersections
   45  adjacent to the crosswalk must be taken into consideration as
   46  provided in the most recent Manual on Uniform Traffic Control
   47  Devices and other applicable Department of Transportation
   48  specifications.
   49         (2) By October 1, 2028, the entity with jurisdiction over a
   50  public highway, street, or road with a crosswalk as described in
   51  subsection (1) shall either ensure that such crosswalk is
   52  controlled by coordinated traffic control signal devices and
   53  pedestrian control signals as required under subsection (1) or
   54  remove the crosswalk.
   55         Section 2. The Legislature finds and declares that this act
   56  fulfills an important state interest.
   57         Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2024.