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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7742
IN SENATE
February 12, 2020
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Introduced by Sen. SAVINO -- 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 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 30 of the laws of 2019,
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 giving notice to approaching
9 motor vehicle operators that a photo speed violation monitoring system
10 is in use, in conformance with standards established in the MUTCD.
11 Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, such signs shall
12 be primarily yellow, indicate that there is a school speed zone and that
13 a photo speed violation monitoring system is being used for photo
14 enforcement, and shall be placed within fifty feet in either direction
15 of a photo speed violation monitoring system.
16 § 2. Paragraph 2 of subdivision (a) of section 1180-d of the vehicle
17 and traffic law, as added by chapter 148 of the laws of 2019, is amended
18 to read as follows:
19 2. No photo speed violation monitoring system shall be used in a
20 school speed zone unless (i) on the day it is to be used it has success-
21 fully passed a self-test of its functions; and (ii) it has undergone an
22 annual calibration check performed pursuant to paragraph four of this
23 subdivision. The city shall install signs giving notice that a photo
24 speed violation monitoring system is in use to be mounted on advance
25 warning signs notifying motor vehicle operators of such upcoming school
26 speed zone and/or on speed limit signs applicable within such school
27 speed zone, in conformance with standards established in the MUTCD.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD13643-05-0
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1 Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, such signs giving
2 notice that a photo speed violation monitoring system is in use shall be
3 primarily yellow, indicate that there is a school speed zone and that a
4 photo speed violation monitoring system is being used for photo enforce-
5 ment, and shall be placed within fifty feet in either direction of a
6 photo speed violation monitoring system.
7 § 3. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
8 have become a law; provided, however, that the amendments to sections
9 1180-b and 1180-d of the vehicle and traffic law made by sections one
10 and two of this act shall not affect the repeal of such sections and
11 shall be deemed repealed therewith.
