Relates to photo speed violation monitoring systems in school speed zones in the city of New York; reduces the radial distance from school buildings for such school speed zones; reduces the time frame for use of such photo speed monitoring systems; extends the effectiveness of certain provisions relating thereto.
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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9055
I N A S S E M B L Y
January 31, 2022
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Introduced by M. of A. FALL -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to photo speed
violation monitoring systems in school speed zones in the city of New
York; and to amend chapter 189 of the laws of 2013, amending the vehi-
cle and traffic law and the public officers law relating to establish-
ing in a city with a population of one million or more a demonstration
program implementing speed violation monitoring systems in school
speed zones by means of photo devices, in relation to the effective-
ness thereof
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) and paragraph 4 of subdivi-
sion (c) of section 1180-b of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by
chapter 30 of the laws of 2019, are 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
such city (i) 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 (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 weekdays between the hours of six o'clock A.M.
and [ten] SIX o'clock P.M. Such demonstration program shall empower the
city of New York to install photo speed violation monitoring systems
within no more than seven hundred fifty school speed zones within such
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
weekdays between the hours of six o'clock A.M. and [ten] SIX o'clock
P.M. In selecting a school speed zone in which to install and operate a
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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