Relates to the fine schedule for owner liability for failure of a vehicle operator to stop for a school bus displaying a red visual signal and stop-arm.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4756
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 6, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. E. BROWN, ANGELINO, BEEPHAN, McDONOUGH, MIKULIN,
LEMONDES, DeSTEFANO, HAWLEY -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to the amount
of owner liability for failure of a vehicle operator to stop for a
school bus displaying a red visual signal and stop-arm
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision (e) of section 1174-a of the vehicle and traf-
2 fic law, as added by chapter 145 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read
3 as follows:
4 (e) An owner liable for a violation of subdivision (a) of section
5 eleven hundred seventy-four of this article pursuant to a local law or
6 ordinance adopted pursuant to this section shall be liable for monetary
7 penalties in accordance with a schedule of fines and penalties to be set
8 forth in such local law or ordinance, except that if a city by local law
9 has authorized the adjudication of such owner liability by a parking
10 violations bureau, such schedule shall be promulgated by such bureau.
11 The liability of the owner pursuant to this section shall be two hundred
12 fifty dollars for [a first] each violation[, two hundred seventy-five
13 dollars for a second violation both of which were committed within a
14 period of eighteen months, and three hundred dollars for a third or
15 subsequent violation all of which were committed within a period of
16 eighteen months]; provided, however, that such local law or ordinance
17 may provide for an additional penalty not in excess of twenty-five
18 dollars for each violation for the failure to respond to a notice of
19 liability within the prescribed time period.
20 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
21 the amendments to subdivision (e) of section 1174-a of the vehicle and
22 traffic law made by section one of this act shall not affect the repeal
23 of such section and shall be deemed repealed therewith.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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