The New York State Senate

 
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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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 photo  speed  violation  monitoring  system,  the city of New York shall
 consider criteria including, but not limited to, the speed  data,  crash
 history,  and the roadway geometry applicable to such school speed zone.
 Such  city shall prioritize the placement of photo speed violation moni-
 toring systems in school speed zones based upon speed data or the  crash
 history  of  a  school  speed  zone.  A photo speed violation monitoring
 system shall not be installed or operated on a controlled-access highway
 exit ramp or within three hundred feet along a  highway  that  continues
 from the end of a controlled-access highway exit ramp.
   4.  "school speed zone" shall mean a radial distance not to exceed one
 [thousand three] hundred twenty feet from a school  building,  entrance,
 or exit.
   § 2. The opening paragraph of section 15 of chapter 189 of the laws of
 2013,  amending  the vehicle and traffic law and the public officers law
 relating to establishing 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, as  amended  by
 chapter 30 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
   This  act  shall  take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall have
 become a law and shall expire and be  deemed  repealed  July  1,  [2022]
 2024;  and provided further that any rules necessary for the implementa-
 tion of this act on its effective date shall be promulgated on or before
 such effective date, provided that:
   § 3. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law; provided that the amendments to section 1180-b 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.