Establishes a pilot program to authorize the use of high-occupancy vehicle compliance monitoring technology to detect the number of occupants in a vehicle and to report on the efficiency rates of such technology and to make recommendations on how such technology can be implemented statewide.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6785
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 20, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. CUSICK -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the transportation law, in relation to establishing a
pilot program for high-occupancy vehicle compliance monitoring tech-
nology
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The transportation law is amended by adding a new section
2 23 to read as follows:
3 § 23. Pilot program for high-occupancy vehicle compliance monitoring
4 technology. 1. For purposes of this section "high-occupancy vehicle
5 compliance monitoring technology" means technology that detects the
6 number of occupants in a vehicle.
7 2. The department shall, in cooperation with the superintendent of
8 state police, the commissioner of motor vehicles, the chairman of the
9 New York state thruway authority and local law enforcement agencies,
10 develop and implement rules and regulations for the creation of a pilot
11 program for high-occupancy vehicle compliance monitoring technology.
12 3. Within twelve months of the commencement of the pilot program, the
13 department shall submit a report to the temporary president of the
14 senate, the speaker of the assembly and the governor. Such report shall
15 include information regarding the efficiency of high-occupancy vehicle
16 compliance monitoring technology and the impact of the uses of such
17 technology on the number of high-occupancy vehicle lane violations.
18 Such report shall include the efficiency rates of such technology and,
19 when such efficiency rates are above the ninetieth percentile, recommen-
20 dations on how such technology can be implemented statewide.
21 4. The department is authorized to enroll, or to apply for enrollment,
22 in any federal pilot program or project for the collection and study of
23 data related to the use of high-occupancy vehicle compliance monitoring
24 technology.
25 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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