Authorizes MOU between Westchester County and state DOT for traffic-control signal photo violation-monitoring devices at certain intersections in the county of Westchester.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7422
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 15, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. STEWART-COUSINS -- read twice and ordered printed,
and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to the opera-
tion of traffic-control signal photo violation-monitoring devices in
certain intersections in the county of Westchester
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-g of the
2 vehicle and traffic law, as added by chapter 501 of the laws of 2023, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the county of Westches-
5 ter is hereby authorized and empowered to adopt and amend a local law or
6 ordinance establishing a demonstration program imposing monetary liabil-
7 ity on the owner of a vehicle for failure of an operator thereof to
8 comply with traffic-control indications in such county in accordance
9 with the provisions of this section. Such demonstration program shall
10 empower such county to install and operate traffic-control signal photo
11 violation-monitoring devices at no more than fifty intersections within
12 and under the jurisdiction of such county at any one time. Provided
13 that, in addition to the fifty intersections within and under its juris-
14 diction, such county may install and operate traffic-control signal
15 photo violation-monitoring devices on intersections located on the
16 portion of the Saw Mill River parkway within such county that is in the
17 village of Pleasantville, upon agreement with the commissioner of the
18 state department of transportation or such commissioner's designee.
19 § 2. Subdivision 13 of section 1803 of the vehicle and traffic law,
20 as added by chapter 501 of the laws of 2023, is amended to read as
21 follows:
22 13. Where the county of Westchester has established a demonstration
23 program imposing monetary liability on the owner of a vehicle for fail-
24 ure of an operator thereof to comply with subdivision (d) of section
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 eleven hundred eleven of this chapter in accordance with section eleven
2 hundred eleven-g of this chapter, any fine or penalty collected by a
3 court, judge, magistrate or other officer for an imposition of liability
4 which occurs within a city, town or village within such county pursuant
5 to such program shall be paid to the state comptroller within the first
6 ten days of the month following collection, except as otherwise provided
7 in subdivision three of section ninety-nine-a of the state finance law.
8 Every such payment shall be accompanied by a statement in such form and
9 detail as the comptroller shall provide. The comptroller shall pay
10 eighty percent of any such fine or penalty imposed for such liability to
11 the county of Westchester, and twenty percent of any such fine or penal-
12 ty to the city, town or village in which the violation giving rise to
13 the liability occurred, provided, however that the comptroller shall pay
14 one hundred percent of any such fine or penalty imposed for such liabil-
15 ity to the county of Westchester for violations which occur on the Saw
16 Mill River parkway within the village of Pleasantville. All fines,
17 penalties and forfeitures paid to a city, town or village pursuant to
18 the provisions of this subdivision shall be credited to the general fund
19 of such city, town or village, unless a different disposition is
20 prescribed by charter, special law, local law or ordinance.
21 § 3. The county of Westchester and commissioner of the state depart-
22 ment of transportation are hereby authorized and empowered to install
23 signage that notifies drivers of the presence of traffic-control signal
24 photo violation-monitoring devices in conformance with standards estab-
25 lished in the manual on uniform traffic control devices. The county and
26 such commissioner are additionally authorized and empowered to engage in
27 a public information campaign before traffic-control signal photo viola-
28 tion-monitoring devices go into effect on state roads to ensure drivers
29 have appropriate notice and understanding of the demonstration program.
30 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that the amend-
31 ments to sections 1111-g and 1803 of the vehicle and traffic law made by
32 sections one and two of this act shall not affect the repeal of such
33 provisions and shall be deemed repealed therewith.
