Senate Bill sb0324c1

    Florida Senate - 2007                            CS for SB 324

    By the Committee on Transportation; and Senator Bullard





    596-2461-07

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to a motor vehicle safety pilot

  3         program; requiring certain limited access

  4         facilities that are adjacent to a canal or

  5         other water body to have a system of

  6         guardrails, retention cables, or other barriers

  7         between the highway and the canal or water

  8         body; providing for the Department of

  9         Transportation to establish certain standards

10         governing the installation and maintenance of

11         the barriers; requiring that barriers be

12         installed for existing highways by a specified

13         date; providing for future review and repeal;

14         providing an effective date.

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16  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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18         Section 1.  Barrier required between a highway and a

19  canal or a water body.--

20         (1)  Each limited access facility in Miami-Dade County

21  that is adjacent to a canal or other water body must have a

22  system of guardrails, retention cables, or other barriers

23  between the highway and the canal or water body which are

24  installed and maintained in conformance with standards

25  established by the Department of Transportation. The standards

26  should consider loss of life by safely preventing

27  out-of-control motor vehicles from entering the canal or water

28  body, as well as the width or depth of the canal or water body

29  or its proximity to the traveled way of the highway.

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    Florida Senate - 2007                            CS for SB 324
    596-2461-07




 1         (2)  For a limited access facility in existence on July

 2  1, 2007, the barriers required under this section must be

 3  installed on or before December 31, 2010.

 4         (3)  This pilot program shall stand repealed December

 5  31, 2011, unless reviewed and saved from repeal through

 6  enactment by the Legislature.

 7         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2007.

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 9          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
10                         Senate Bill 324

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12  This Committee Substitute (CS) provides for each limited
    access facility in Miami-Dade County adjacent to a canal or
13  body of water to have a system of guardrails, retention
    cables, or other barriers between a highway and canal or other
14  body of water. In addition, the CS provides for installation
    of barriers by December 31, 2010 for any affected limited
15  access facility in existence as of July 1, 2007. The CS
    further provides for the repeal of the pilot program on
16  December 31, 2011 unless reviewed and saved from repeal by the
    Legislature.
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