Amd §§1111-a & 1180-b, V & T L; amd §19-210, NYC Ad Cd
Removes the limitation of the number of traffic-control signal photo violation-monitoring devices and photo speed violation monitoring systems authorized to be installed and operated within the city of New York.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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IN ASSEMBLY
May 4, 2018
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Introduced by M. of A. QUART -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law and the administrative code
of the city of New York, in relation to the number of traffic-control
signal photo violation-monitoring devices and photo speed violation
monitoring systems authorized to be installed and operating within the
city of New York
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-a of the
2 vehicle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 18 of the laws of 2009,
3 is amended to read as follows:
4 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, each city with a popu-
5 lation of one million or more is hereby authorized and empowered to
6 adopt and amend a local law or ordinance establishing a demonstration
7 program imposing monetary liability on the owner of a vehicle for fail-
8 ure of an operator thereof to comply with traffic-control indications in
9 such city in accordance with the provisions of this section. Such demon-
10 stration program shall empower a city to install and operate traffic-
11 control signal photo violation-monitoring devices [at no more than one
12 hundred fifty intersections] within such city [at any one time].
13 § 2. Paragraph 1 of subdivision (a) of section 1180-b of the vehicle
14 and traffic law, as amended by chapter 43 of the laws of 2014, is
15 amended to read as follows:
16 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the city of New York is
17 hereby authorized to establish a demonstration program imposing monetary
18 liability on the owner of a vehicle for failure of an operator thereof
19 to comply with posted maximum speed limits in a school speed zone within
20 the city (i) when a school speed limit is in effect as provided in para-
21 graphs one and two of subdivision (c) of section eleven hundred eighty
22 of this article or (ii) when other speed limits are in effect as
23 provided in subdivision (b), (d), (f) or (g) of section eleven hundred
24 eighty of this article during the following times: (A) on school days
25 during school hours and one hour before and one hour after the school
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 day, and (B) a period during student activities at the school and up to
2 thirty minutes immediately before and up to thirty minutes immediately
3 after such student activities. Such demonstration program shall empower
4 the city to install photo speed violation monitoring systems within [no
5 more than one hundred forty] school speed zones within the city [at any
6 one time] and to operate such systems within such zones (iii) when a
7 school speed limit is in effect as provided in paragraphs one and two of
8 subdivision (c) of section eleven hundred eighty of this article or (iv)
9 when other speed limits are in effect as provided in subdivision (b),
10 (d), (f) or (g) of section eleven hundred eighty of this article during
11 the following times: (A) on school days during school hours and one hour
12 before and one hour after the school day, and (B) a period during
13 student activities at the school and up to thirty minutes immediately
14 before and up to thirty minutes immediately after such student activ-
15 ities. In selecting a school speed zone in which to install and operate
16 a photo speed violation monitoring system, the city shall consider
17 criteria including, but not limited to the speed data, crash history,
18 and the roadway geometry applicable to such school speed zone.
19 § 3. Paragraph 1 of subdivision (a) of section 1180-b of the vehicle
20 and traffic law, as added by chapter 189 of the laws of 2013, is amended
21 to read as follows:
22 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the city of New York is
23 hereby authorized to establish a demonstration program imposing monetary
24 liability on the owner of a vehicle for failure of an operator thereof
25 to comply with posted maximum speed limits in a school speed zone within
26 the city (i) when a school speed limit is in effect as provided in para-
27 graphs one and two of subdivision (c) of section eleven hundred eighty
28 of this article or (ii) when other speed limits are in effect as
29 provided in subdivision (b), (d), (f) or (g) of section eleven hundred
30 eighty of this article during the following times: (A) on school days
31 during school hours and one hour before and one hour after the school
32 day, and (B) a period during student activities at the school and up to
33 thirty minutes immediately before and up to thirty minutes immediately
34 after such student activities. Such demonstration program shall empower
35 the city to install photo speed violation monitoring systems within [no
36 more than twenty school speed zones within] the city [at any one time]
37 and to operate such systems within such zones (iii) when a school speed
38 limit is in effect as provided in paragraphs one and two of subdivision
39 (c) of section eleven hundred eighty of this article or (iv) when other
40 speed limits are in effect as provided in subdivision (b), (d), (f) or
41 (g) of section eleven hundred eighty of this article during the follow-
42 ing times: (A) on school days during school hours and one hour before
43 and one hour after the school day, and (B) a period during student
44 activities at the school and up to thirty minutes immediately before and
45 up to thirty minutes immediately after such student activities. In
46 selecting a school speed zone in which to install and operate a photo
47 speed violation monitoring system, the city shall consider criteria
48 including, but not limited to the speed data, crash history, and the
49 roadway geometry applicable to such school speed zone.
50 § 4. Paragraph 1 of subdivision (a) of section 19-210 of the adminis-
51 trative code of the city of New York, as amended by chapter 18 of the
52 laws of 2009, is amended to read as follows:
53 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the parking violations
54 bureau is hereby authorized and empowered to establish a demonstration
55 program imposing monetary liability on the owner of a vehicle for fail-
56 ure of an operator thereof to comply with traffic-control indications in
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1 accordance with the provisions of this section. The department of trans-
2 portation, for purposes of implementation of such program, shall be
3 authorized to install and operate traffic-control signal photo viola-
4 tion-monitoring devices [at no more than one hundred fifty intersections
5 at any one time] within the city.
6 § 5. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
7 the amendments to section 1111-a of the vehicle and traffic law made by
8 section one of this act shall not affect the repeal of such section and
9 shall be deemed repealed therewith; provided further, however that the
10 amendments to paragraph 1 of subdivision (a) of section 1180-b of the
11 vehicle and traffic law made by section two of this act shall not affect
12 the expiration and reversion of such paragraph pursuant to section 12 of
13 chapter 43 of the laws of 2014, as amended, when upon such date section
14 three of this act shall take effect; provided further, however, that the
15 amendments to section 1180-b of the vehicle and traffic law made by
16 sections two and three of this act shall not affect the repeal of such
17 section and shall be deemed repealed therewith; and provided further,
18 however, that the amendments to section 19-210 of the administrative
19 code of the city of New York made by section four of this act shall not
20 affect the expiration of such section and shall be deemed to expire
21 therewith.
