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I N A S S E M B L Y
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:
Section 1. Paragraph 1 of subdivision (a) of section 1111-a of the
vehicle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 18 of the laws of 2009,
is amended to read as follows:
1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, each city with a popu-
lation of one million or more is hereby authorized and empowered to
adopt and amend a local law or ordinance establishing a demonstration
program imposing monetary liability on the owner of a vehicle for fail-
ure of an operator thereof to comply with traffic-control indications in
such city in accordance with the provisions of this section. Such demon-
stration program shall empower a city to install and operate traffic-
control signal photo violation-monitoring devices [at no more than one
hundred fifty intersections] within such city [at any one time].
§ 2. Paragraph 1 of subdivision (a) of section 1180-b of the vehicle
and traffic law, as amended by chapter 43 of the laws of 2014, is
amended to read as follows:
1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the city of New York is
hereby authorized to establish a demonstration program imposing monetary
liability on the owner of a vehicle for failure of an operator thereof
to comply with posted maximum speed limits in a school speed zone within
the city (i) when a school speed limit is in effect as provided in para-
graphs one and two of subdivision (c) of section eleven hundred eighty
of this article or (ii) when other speed limits are in effect as
provided in subdivision (b), (d), (f) or (g) of section eleven hundred
eighty of this article during the following times: (A) on school days
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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day, and (B) a period during student activities at the school and up to
thirty minutes immediately before and up to thirty minutes immediately
after such student activities. Such demonstration program shall empower
the city to install photo speed violation monitoring systems within [no
more than one hundred forty] school speed zones within the city [at any
one time] and to operate such systems within such zones (iii) when a
school speed limit is in effect as provided in paragraphs one and two of
subdivision (c) of section eleven hundred eighty of this article or (iv)
when other speed limits are in effect as provided in subdivision (b),
(d), (f) or (g) of section eleven hundred eighty of this article during
the following times: (A) on school days during school hours and one hour
before and one hour after the school day, and (B) a period during
student activities at the school and up to thirty minutes immediately
before and up to thirty minutes immediately after such student activ-
ities. In selecting a school speed zone in which to install and operate
a photo speed violation monitoring system, the city shall consider
criteria including, but not limited to the speed data, crash history,
and the roadway geometry applicable to such school speed zone.
§ 3. Paragraph 1 of subdivision (a) of section 1180-b of the vehicle
and traffic law, as added by chapter 189 of the laws of 2013, is amended
to read as follows:
1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the city of New York is
hereby authorized to establish a demonstration program imposing monetary
liability on the owner of a vehicle for failure of an operator thereof
to comply with posted maximum speed limits in a school speed zone within
the city (i) when a school speed limit is in effect as provided in para-
graphs one and two of subdivision (c) of section eleven hundred eighty
of this article or (ii) when other speed limits are in effect as
provided in subdivision (b), (d), (f) or (g) of section eleven hundred
eighty of this article during the following times: (A) on school days
during school hours and one hour before and one hour after the school
day, and (B) a period during student activities at the school and up to
thirty minutes immediately before and up to thirty minutes immediately
after such student activities. Such demonstration program shall empower
the city to install photo speed violation monitoring systems within [no
more than twenty school speed zones within] the city [at any one time]
and to operate such systems within such zones (iii) when a school speed
limit is in effect as provided in paragraphs one and two of subdivision
(c) of section eleven hundred eighty of this article or (iv) when other
speed limits are in effect as provided in subdivision (b), (d), (f) or
(g) of section eleven hundred eighty of this article during the follow-
ing times: (A) on school days during school hours and one hour before
and one hour after the school day, and (B) a period during student
activities at the school and up to thirty minutes immediately before and
up to thirty minutes immediately after such student activities. In
selecting a school speed zone in which to install and operate a photo
speed violation monitoring system, the city shall consider criteria
including, but not limited to the speed data, crash history, and the
roadway geometry applicable to such school speed zone.
§ 4. Paragraph 1 of subdivision (a) of section 19-210 of the adminis-
trative code of the city of New York, as amended by chapter 18 of the
laws of 2009, is amended to read as follows:
1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the parking violations
bureau is hereby authorized and empowered to establish a demonstration
program imposing monetary liability on the owner of a vehicle for fail-
ure of an operator thereof to comply with traffic-control indications in
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accordance with the provisions of this section. The department of trans-
portation, for purposes of implementation of such program, shall be
authorized to install and operate traffic-control signal photo viola-
tion-monitoring devices [at no more than one hundred fifty intersections
at any one time] WITHIN THE CITY.
§ 5. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
the amendments to section 1111-a of the vehicle and traffic law made by
section one of this act shall not affect the repeal of such section and
shall be deemed repealed therewith; provided further, however that the
amendments to paragraph 1 of subdivision (a) of section 1180-b of the
vehicle and traffic law made by section two of this act shall not affect
the expiration and reversion of such paragraph pursuant to section 12 of
chapter 43 of the laws of 2014, as amended, when upon such date section
three of this act shall take effect; provided further, however, that the
amendments to section 1180-b of the vehicle and traffic law made by
sections two and three of this act shall not affect the repeal of such
section and shall be deemed repealed therewith; and provided further,
however, that the amendments to section 19-210 of the administrative
code of the city of New York made by section four of this act shall not
affect the expiration of such section and shall be deemed to expire
therewith.