Assembly Bill A10421

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to owner liability for failure of operator to comply with traffic-control devices in the village of Pelham Manor

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Archive: Last Bill Status Via S9340 - Passed Assembly

  • 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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2021-A10421 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S9340
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1111-f, V & T L

2021-A10421 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Permits the village of Pelham Manor to impose fines or penalties relating to owner liability for failure of operator to comply with traffic-control devices in such village.

2021-A10421 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10421
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 16, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Paulin) --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle  and  traffic  law,  in  relation  to  owner
   liability  for  failure  of an operator to comply with traffic-control
   devices in the village of Pelham Manor
 
   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-f of the
 vehicle and traffic law, as added by chapter 460 of the laws of 2021, is
 amended to read as follows:
   1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the village  of  Pelham
 Manor  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-control indications in such village in accordance
 with the provisions of this section. Such  demonstration  program  shall
 empower such village to install and operate traffic-control signal photo
 violation-monitoring devices at no more than one intersection within and
 under  the  jurisdiction  of  such village at any one time[.]; PROVIDED,
 HOWEVER, THAT WHERE ONE OF THE TWO HIGHWAYS JOINING ONE ANOTHER AT  SUCH
 INTERSECTION  IS  A  STATE HIGHWAY MAINTAINED BY THE STATE, SUCH VILLAGE
 MAY INSTALL AND OPERATE SUCH TRAFFIC-CONTROL SIGNAL PHOTO VIOLATION-MON-
 ITORING DEVICE IN A MANNER AFFECTING TRAFFIC PROCEEDING ALONG SUCH STATE
 HIGHWAY AT SUCH INTERSECTION IF IT HAS OBTAINED APPROVAL IN WRITING FROM
 THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, AND THE DEPARTMENT  OF  TRANSPORTATION
 MAY AT ANY TIME RESCIND OR MODIFY SUCH APPROVAL.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law; provided, however, that the amendments to subdivision
 (a) of section 1111-f of the vehicle and traffic law made by section one
 of this act shall not affect the repeal of such subdivision and shall be
 deemed repealed therewith.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD15886-03-2

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