STATE OF NEW YORK
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7609
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 23, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. COONEY -- 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 making tech-
nical corrections to the adjudication of certain traffic violations;
and to repeal certain provisions of such law relating thereto
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivisions 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16 of section 237
2 of the vehicle and traffic law are REPEALED and a new subdivision 10 is
3 added to read as follows:
4 10. (a) To adjudicate the liability of owners for violations of subdi-
5 vision (d) of section eleven hundred eleven of this chapter imposed
6 pursuant to a local law or ordinance imposing monetary liability on the
7 owner of a vehicle for failure of an operator thereof to comply with
8 traffic-control indications through the installation and operation of
9 traffic-control signal photo violation-monitoring systems, in accordance
10 with article twenty-four of this chapter; (b) to adjudicate the liabil-
11 ity of owners for violations of subdivision (b), (c), (d), (f) or (g) of
12 section eleven hundred eighty of this chapter imposed pursuant to a
13 demonstration program imposing monetary liability on the owner of a
14 vehicle for failure of an operator thereof to comply with such posted
15 maximum speed limits through the installation and operation of photo
16 speed violation monitoring systems, in accordance with article thirty of
17 this chapter; (c) to adjudicate the liability of owners for violations
18 of bus lane restrictions as defined by article twenty-four of this chap-
19 ter imposed pursuant to a bus rapid transit program imposing monetary
20 liability on the owner of a vehicle for failure of an operator thereof
21 to comply with such bus lane restrictions through the installation and
22 operation of bus lane photo devices, in accordance with article twenty-
23 four of this chapter; (d) to adjudicate the liability of owners for
24 violations of toll collection regulations imposed by certain public
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 authorities pursuant to the law authorizing such public authorities to
2 impose monetary liability on the owner of a vehicle for failure of an
3 operator thereof to comply with toll collection regulations of such
4 public authorities through the installation and operation of photo-moni-
5 toring systems, in accordance with the provisions of section twenty-nine
6 hundred eighty-five of the public authorities law and sections
7 sixteen-a, sixteen-b and sixteen-c of chapter seven hundred seventy-four
8 of the laws of nineteen hundred fifty; (e) to adjudicate the liability
9 of owners for violations of section eleven hundred seventy-four of this
10 chapter when meeting a school bus marked and equipped as provided in
11 subdivisions twenty and twenty-one-c of section three hundred seventy-
12 five of this chapter imposed pursuant to a local law or ordinance impos-
13 ing monetary liability on the owner of a vehicle for failure of an oper-
14 ator thereof to comply with school bus red visual signals through the
15 installation and operation of school bus photo violation monitoring
16 systems, in accordance with article twenty-nine of this chapter; (f) to
17 adjudicate the liability of owners for violations of section three
18 hundred eighty-five of this chapter and the rules of the department of
19 transportation of the city of New York in relation to gross vehicle
20 weight and/or axle weight violations imposed pursuant to a weigh in
21 motion demonstration program imposing monetary liability on the owner of
22 a vehicle for failure of an operator thereof to comply with such gross
23 vehicle weight and/or axle weight restrictions through the installation
24 and operation of weigh in motion violation monitoring systems, in
25 accordance with article ten of this chapter; (g) to adjudicate the
26 liability of owners for violations of subdivision (b), (d), (f) or (g)
27 of section eleven hundred eighty of this chapter imposed pursuant to a
28 demonstration program imposing monetary liability on the owner of a
29 vehicle for failure of an operator thereof to comply with such posted
30 maximum speed limits within a highway construction or maintenance work
31 area through the installation and operation of photo speed violation
32 monitoring systems, in accordance with article thirty of this chapter;
33 and (h) to adjudicate the liability of owners for violations of bus
34 operation-related traffic regulations as defined by article twenty-four
35 of this chapter imposed pursuant to a demonstration program imposing
36 monetary liability on the owner of a vehicle for failure of an operator
37 thereof to comply with such bus operation-related traffic regulations
38 through the installation and operation of bus operation-related photo
39 devices, in accordance with article twenty-four of this chapter.
40 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
