Requires signs providing notice of the use of a photo speed violation monitoring system to be primarily yellow and be placed within fifty feet of a photo speed violation monitoring system.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3035
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 2, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. REILLY -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to requirements
for signs providing notice of the use of a photo speed violation moni-
toring system
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph 2 of subdivision (a) of section 1180-b of the
2 vehicle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 229 of the laws of 2022,
3 is amended to read as follows:
4 2. No photo speed violation monitoring system shall be used in a
5 school speed zone unless (i) on the day it is to be used it has success-
6 fully passed a self-test of its functions; and (ii) it has undergone an
7 annual calibration check performed pursuant to paragraph four of this
8 subdivision. The city shall install signs bearing the words "photo
9 enforced" below speed limit signs giving written notice to approaching
10 motor vehicle operators that a photo speed violation monitoring system
11 is in use, in conformance with standards established in the MUTCD, and
12 shall modify existing signage to reflect such written notice in the
13 regular course of maintenance. Notwithstanding any provision of law to
14 the contrary, such signs shall be primarily yellow, indicate that there
15 is a school speed zone and that a photo speed violation monitoring
16 system is being used for photo enforcement, and shall be placed within
17 fifty feet in either direction of a photo speed violation monitoring
18 system.
19 § 2. Paragraph 2 of subdivision (a) of section 1180-d of the vehicle
20 and traffic law, as added by chapter 148 of the laws of 2019, is amended
21 to read as follows:
22 2. No photo speed violation monitoring system shall be used in a
23 school speed zone unless (i) on the day it is to be used it has success-
24 fully passed a self-test of its functions; and (ii) it has undergone an
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD02031-01-3
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1 annual calibration check performed pursuant to paragraph four of this
2 subdivision. The city shall install signs giving notice that a photo
3 speed violation monitoring system is in use to be mounted on advance
4 warning signs notifying motor vehicle operators of such upcoming school
5 speed zone and/or on speed limit signs applicable within such school
6 speed zone, in conformance with standards established in the MUTCD.
7 Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, such signs giving
8 notice that a photo speed violation monitoring system is in use shall be
9 primarily yellow, indicate that there is a school speed zone and that a
10 photo speed violation monitoring system is being used for photo enforce-
11 ment, and shall be placed within fifty feet in either direction of a
12 photo speed violation monitoring system.
13 § 3. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
14 have become a law; provided, however, that the amendments to sections
15 1180-b and 1180-d of the vehicle and traffic law made by sections one
16 and two of this act shall not affect the repeal of such sections and
17 shall be deemed repealed therewith.
