Suspends the registration of a vehicle which has been documented five times within an eighteen month period by a photo violation monitoring device for failure of an operator thereof to comply with traffic-control indications for a period of ninety days.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5775--A
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 28, 2025
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Introduced by Sens. GIANARIS, GONZALEZ, GOUNARDES, HOYLMAN-SIGAL, JACK-
SON, KAVANAGH, KRUEGER, MYRIE, SALAZAR, SERRANO -- read twice and
ordered printed, and when printed to be committed 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, in relation to suspending
the registration of a vehicle which has been documented five times by
a photo violation monitoring device for failure of an operator thereof
to comply with traffic-control indications
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 4-i to read as follows:
3 4-i. Suspension of registration for imposition of liability through
4 the use of traffic-control signal photo violation-monitoring systems.
5 (a) Upon the receipt of a notification from a court or an administrative
6 tribunal that an owner of a motor vehicle has been found monetarily
7 liable by a court or an administrative tribunal for failure of an opera-
8 tor thereof to comply with traffic-control indications in violation of
9 subdivision (d) of section eleven hundred eleven of this chapter through
10 the installation and operation of traffic-control signal photo viola-
11 tion-monitoring systems in accordance with article twenty-four of this
12 chapter, following entry of a final decision or decisions in response to
13 five or more notices of liability, issued within an eighteen month peri-
14 od, imposing monetary liability on the owner of such vehicle for failure
15 of an operator thereof to comply with traffic-control indications in
16 violation of subdivision (d) of section eleven hundred eleven of this
17 chapter through the installation and operation of traffic-control signal
18 photo violation-monitoring systems in accordance with article twenty-
19 four of this chapter not arising out of the same incident, the commis-
20 sioner or the commissioner's agent shall suspend the registration of the
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 motor vehicle involved in such imposition of liability for a period of
2 ninety days.
3 (b) In addition to complying with the requirements of article twenty-
4 four of this chapter, a notice of liability issued to owners of motor
5 vehicles for violations of subdivision (d) of section eleven hundred
6 eleven of this chapter imposed for failure of an operator thereof to
7 comply with traffic-control indications through the installation and
8 operation of traffic-control signal photo violation-monitoring systems,
9 in accordance with article twenty-four of this chapter, shall contain a
10 warning to advise the persons charged that following entry of a final
11 decision or decisions in response to five or more notices of liability
12 issued within a period of eighteen months imposing liability upon such
13 person as an owner for such violation, the registration of the motor
14 vehicle involved in such violations shall be suspended for a period of
15 ninety days.
16 § 2. The section heading and paragraphs (a) and (c) of subdivision 1
17 of section 514 of the vehicle and traffic law, the section heading and
18 paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 as amended by chapter 406 of the laws of
19 2001 and paragraph (c) of subdivision 1 as amended by chapter 892 of the
20 laws of 1983, are amended to read as follows:
21 Certifying convictions, findings of liability, forfeitures and nonap-
22 pearances to the commissioner and recording convictions and findings of
23 liability.
24 (a) (i) Upon a judgment of conviction of any person of [(a)] (1) homi-
25 cide or assault arising out of the operation of a motor vehicle, [(b)]
26 (2) criminally negligent homicide arising out of the operation of a
27 motor vehicle, [(c)] (3) a felony involving the use of a commercial
28 motor vehicle, [(d)] (4) a violation of any of the provisions of this
29 chapter (except one relating to parking, stopping or standing) or [(e)]
30 (5) a violation of any law, ordinance, rule or regulation made by local
31 authorities in relation to traffic (except one relating to parking,
32 stopping or standing) or upon the forfeiture of bail given upon a charge
33 of violating any such provision, law, ordinance, rule or regulation[,];
34 or (ii) upon entry of a final decision imposing monetary liability upon
35 a person as a motor vehicle owner for a violation of subdivision (d) of
36 section eleven hundred eleven of this chapter pursuant to a demon-
37 stration program established pursuant to article twenty-four of this
38 chapter, the court or the clerk thereof shall within fifteen days certi-
39 fy the facts of the case or the finding of liability to the commissioner
40 in such form and in such manner as may be prescribed by the commission-
41 er, who shall record the same in [his] their office. Such certificate
42 shall be presumptive evidence of the facts recited therein. If any such
43 conviction or finding of liability shall be reversed upon appeal there-
44 from, or shall be vacated or set aside, the person whose conviction or
45 finding of liability has been so reversed, vacated or set aside may
46 serve on the commissioner a certified copy of the appropriate order and
47 the commissioner shall thereupon record the same in connection with the
48 record of such conviction or finding of liability.
49 (c) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraphs (a) and (b) of this
50 subdivision, the commissioner may prescribe time limitations for the
51 reporting of judgments of conviction or findings of liability and trans-
52 mission of such license that are longer than those prescribed by this
53 section for any courts to which this section is applicable.
54 § 3. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a
55 law and shall apply to violations committed on and after such date.
56 Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule
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1 or regulation necessary for the implementation of this act on its effec-
2 tive date are authorized to be made and completed on or before such
3 effective date.
