Relates to liability for violations imposed through the use of traffic-control signal photo-monitoring systems and photo speed violation monitoring systems; provides for license suspension for six months after six or more findings of liability within a eighteen month period; provides that violations may be used for insurance purposes in the provision of motor vehicle insurance coverage upon a fifth or subsequent finding of liability in a two year period.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8825
IN SENATE
May 23, 2018
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Introduced by Sen. FELDER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Cities
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to liability
for violations imposed through the use of traffic-control signal
photo-monitoring systems and photo speed violation monitoring systems
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 510 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by
2 adding a new subdivision 2-b to read as follows:
3 2-b. Mandatory suspension of registration of a vehicle with six or
4 more findings of liability under sections eleven hundred eleven-a and
5 eleven hundred eighty-b of this chapter. Within seven days of the
6 receipt of notification from a parking violations bureau of a vehicle,
7 other than a rental vehicle as defined in one hundred thirty-seven-a of
8 this chapter, with six or more findings of liability within an eighteen
9 month period under local laws adopted pursuant to sections eleven
10 hundred eleven-a and/or eleven hundred eighty-b of this chapter, the
11 registration of such vehicle shall be suspended for six months.
12 § 2. Subdivision (f) of section 1111-a of the vehicle and traffic law,
13 as added by chapter 746 of the laws of 1988, is amended to read as
14 follows:
15 (f) An imposition of liability under a local law or ordinance adopted
16 pursuant to this section shall not be deemed a conviction as an operator
17 and shall not be made part of the operating record of the person upon
18 whom such liability is imposed [nor shall it] but may be used for insur-
19 ance purposes in the provision of motor vehicle insurance coverage in
20 accordance with this subdivision. Upon a fifth or subsequent finding of
21 liability within a two-year period, the parking violations bureau shall
22 notify the department of such findings of liability and the department
23 shall notify the vehicle owner's insurance carrier.
24 § 3. Subdivision (f) of section 1180-b of the vehicle and traffic law,
25 as added by chapter 189 of the laws of 2013, is amended to read as
26 follows:
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 (f) An imposition of liability under the demonstration program estab-
2 lished pursuant to this section shall not be deemed a conviction as an
3 operator and shall not be made part of the operating record of the
4 person upon whom such liability is imposed [nor shall it] but may be
5 used for insurance purposes in the provision of motor vehicle insurance
6 coverage in accordance with this subdivision. Upon a fifth or subsequent
7 finding of liability within a two-year period, the parking violations
8 bureau shall notify the department of such findings of liability and the
9 department shall notify the vehicle owner's insurance carrier.
10 § 4. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
11 have become a law; provided, however, that:
12 (a) the amendments to subdivision (f) of section 1111-a of the vehicle
13 and traffic law made by section two of this act shall not affect the
14 repeal of such section and shall be deemed repealed therewith; and
15 (b) the amendments to subdivision (f) of section 1180-b of the vehicle
16 and traffic law made by section three of this act shall not affect the
17 repeal of such section and shall be deemed repealed therewith.
