Suspends the registration of a vehicle which has been documented multiple times within a period by a photo violation monitoring device for failure to comply with traffic-control indications.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7919
IN SENATE
March 9, 2018
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Introduced by Sen. HAMILTON -- 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 suspending
the registration of a vehicle which has been documented multiple times
by a photo violation monitoring device for failure of an operator
thereof to comply with traffic-control indications
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a new
2 section 1118 to read as follows:
3 § 1118. Failure to comply with traffic control signal. (a) The regis-
4 tration of a vehicle which has been documented six times within a twelve
5 month period by a photo violation monitoring device for failure of an
6 operator thereof to comply with traffic-control indications shall be
7 suspended for a period of fifteen days commencing ten days after the
8 notice of liability for the sixth violation has been mailed.
9 (b) The registration of a vehicle which has been documented nine times
10 within a twenty-four month period by a photo violation monitoring device
11 for failure of an operator thereof to comply with traffic-control indi-
12 cations shall be suspended for a period of thirty days commencing ten
13 days after the notice of liability for the ninth violation has been
14 mailed.
15 (c) The registration of a vehicle which has been documented twelve
16 times within a thirty-six month period by a photo violation monitoring
17 device for failure of an operator thereof to comply with traffic-control
18 indications shall be suspended for a period of ninety days commencing
19 ten days after the notice of liability for the twelfth violation has
20 been mailed.
21 (d) This section shall not apply to a rental vehicle, as defined in
22 section one hundred thirty-seven-a of this chapter.
23 (e) The department shall, by certified mail, alert the owner of a
24 registered vehicle after the vehicles fourth documentation in twelve
25 months, seventh documentation in twenty-four months, and tenth documen-
26 tation in thirty-six months by a photo violation monitoring device for
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD15076-02-8
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1 failure of an operator thereof to comply with traffic-control indi-
2 cations that such vehicle shall be suspended after two more documenta-
3 tions.
4 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
