STATE OF NEW YORK
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7425--A
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 4, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. HEASTIE, BING, WEPRIN, BRAUNSTEIN, HOYT, BENEDET-
TO, P. RIVERA, MILLMAN, GOTTFRIED, REILLY, STEVENSON, CASTRO --
Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. CRESPO, GABRYSZAK -- read once and
referred to the Committee on Transportation -- committee discharged,
bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said
committee
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law and the administrative code
of the city of New York, in relation to increasing the number of traf-
fic control signal photo violation monitoring devices
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph 1 of subdivision (a) of section 1111-a of the
2 vehicle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 18 of the laws of 2009,
3 is amended to read as follows:
4 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, each city with a popu-
5 lation of one million or more is hereby authorized and empowered to
6 adopt and amend a local law or ordinance establishing a demonstration
7 program imposing monetary liability on the owner of a vehicle for fail-
8 ure of an operator thereof to comply with traffic-control indications in
9 such city in accordance with the provisions of this section. Such demon-
10 stration program shall empower a city to install and operate traffic-
11 control signal photo violation-monitoring devices at no more than [one]
12 two hundred [fifty] twenty-five intersections within such city at any
13 one time.
14 § 2. Paragraph 1 of subdivision (a) of section 19-210 of the adminis-
15 trative code of the city of New York, as amended by chapter 18 of the
16 laws of 2009, is amended to read as follows:
17 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the parking violations
18 bureau is hereby authorized and empowered to establish a demonstration
19 program imposing monetary liability on the owner of a vehicle for fail-
20 ure of an operator thereof to comply with traffic-control indications in
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 accordance with the provisions of this section. The department of trans-
2 portation, for purposes of implementation of such program, shall be
3 authorized to install and operate traffic-control signal photo viola-
4 tion-monitoring devices at no more than [one] two hundred [fifty] twen-
5 ty-five intersections at any one time.
6 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately, provided, however, that
7 the amendments to paragraph 1 of subdivision (a) of section 1111-a of
8 the vehicle and traffic law made by section one of this act shall not
9 affect the repeal of such section and shall be deemed repealed there-
10 with; and provided, further, that the amendments to paragraph 1 of
11 subdivision (a) of section 19-210 of the administrative code of the city
12 of New York made by section two of this act shall not affect the expira-
13 tion of such section and shall be deemed to expire therewith.
