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Assembly Bill A4045

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Requires that certain New York state police vehicles be equipped with a dashboard camera

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2021-A4045 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3252
Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Operations
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Add §212-a, Exec L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A8497, S8511
2023-2024: A5172, S3558
2025-2026: A1682

2021-A4045 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires that certain New York state police vehicles be equipped with a dashboard camera.

2021-A4045 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4045
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 1, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of A. ABINANTI, SAYEGH, WOERNER, EPSTEIN, McDONOUGH,
   BUTTENSCHON, GOTTFRIED -- read once and referred to the  Committee  on
   Governmental Operations
 
 AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to requiring that certain
   New York state police vehicles be equipped with a dashboard camera

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section  212-a
 to read as follows:
   § 212-A. MANDATORY EQUIPMENT. EACH MOTOR VEHICLE OPERATED BY THE STATE
 POLICE  IN  CONNECTION  WITH  THE  PATROL  OF  THE STATE'S ROADWAYS, THE
 PREVENTION AND INVESTIGATION OF  CRIMES,  OR  THE  PREPARATION  FOR  AND
 RESPONSE TO EMERGENCIES AND DISASTERS SHALL BE EQUIPPED WITH A DASHBOARD
 CAMERA.
   §  2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
 ing the date upon which it shall have become a law. Effective immediate-
 ly the addition, amendment and/or  repeal  of  any  rule  or  regulation
 necessary  for  the implementation of this act on its effective date are
 authorized to be made and completed on or before such date.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01790-01-1

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