Assembly Bill A2977

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Allows counties to establish demonstration programs imposing monetary liability on the owner of a vehicle for failure of an operator thereof to comply with traffic-control indications

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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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2019-A2977 (ACTIVE) - Details

Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1111-a, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A2556
2011-2012: A1188
2013-2014: A1432
2015-2016: A185
2017-2018: A1284

2019-A2977 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Allows counties to establish demonstration programs imposing monetary liability on the owner of a vehicle for failure of an operator thereof to comply with traffic-control indications.

2019-A2977 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2977
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 28, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. GANTT -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law,  in  relation  to  allowing
   counties to establish demonstration programs imposing monetary liabil-
   ity  on  the  owner of a vehicle 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:
 
   Section  1. Section 1111-a of the vehicle and traffic law, as added by
 chapter 746 of the laws of 1988, subdivisions (a), (b),  (c),  (d),  (k)
 and  (m)  as  amended and subdivision (n) as added by chapter 658 of the
 laws of 2006, paragraph 1 of subdivision (a) as amended by chapter 18 of
 the laws of 2009 and subdivision (e) as amended by chapter  479  of  the
 laws of 1994, is amended to read as follows:
   §  1111-a. Owner  liability  for  failure  of  operator to comply with
 traffic-control indications.  (a) 1. Notwithstanding any other provision
 of law, each city with a population of one million or more AND COUNTY AS
 PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (O) OF THIS SECTION  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  failure of an operator thereof to comply with traffic-con-
 trol  indications  in  such  city  OR  COUNTY  in  accordance  with  the
 provisions  of  this section. Such demonstration program shall empower a
 city OR COUNTY to  install  and  operate  traffic-control  signal  photo
 violation-monitoring  devices  at  no more than one hundred fifty inter-
 sections within such city at any one time AND AT NO  MORE  THAN  TWENTY-
 FIVE PERCENT OF INTERSECTIONS WITHIN SUCH COUNTY AT ANY ONE TIME.
   2.  Such demonstration program shall utilize necessary technologies to
 ensure, to the extent practicable, that  photographs  produced  by  such
 traffic-control  signal  photo  violation-monitoring  systems  shall not
 include images that identify the driver, the passengers, or the contents
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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