Senate Bill S4197

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Authorizes the county of Suffolk to operate traffic-control signal photo violation-monitoring devices at up to 100 intersections

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2011-S4197 (ACTIVE) - Details

Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1111-b, V & T L

2011-S4197 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Increases from 50 to 100, the number of intersections at which the county of Suffolk is authorized to install and operate traffic-control signal photo violation-monitoring devices.

2011-S4197 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2011-S4197 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  4197

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                             March 23, 2011
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen. JOHNSON -- 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  authorizing
  the  county  of  Suffolk to install and operate traffic-control signal
  photo violation-monitoring devices at up to one hundred intersections

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Paragraph  1  of subdivision (a) of section 1111-b of the
vehicle and traffic law, as added by chapter 23 of the laws of 2009,  is
amended to red as follows:
  1.  Notwithstanding  any other provision of law, the county of Suffolk
is hereby authorized and empowered to adopt and amend  a  local  law  or
ordinance establishing a demonstration program imposing monetary liabil-
ity  on  the  owner  of  a vehicle for failure of an operator thereof to
comply with traffic-control indications in  such  county  in  accordance
with  the  provisions  of this section. Such demonstration program shall
empower such county to install and operate traffic-control signal  photo
violation-monitoring  devices at no more than [fifty] ONE HUNDRED inter-
sections within and under the jurisdiction of such  county  at  any  one
time.
  S  2. This act shall take effect immediately, provided that the amend-
ments to paragraph 1 of subdivision (a) of section 1111-b of the vehicle
and traffic law, made by section one of this act, shall not  affect  the
expiration  and  repeal of such section pursuant to section 9 of chapter
23 of the laws of 2009 as  amended,  and  shall  expire  and  be  deemed
repealed therewith.


 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD10433-01-1

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