Senate Bill S10717

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                   10717
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              October 7, 2026
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 Introduced  by  Sen.  CLEARE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in  relation  to  exempting
   116th  Street  in the borough of Manhattan between Riverside Drive and
   FDR Drive from  certain  bus  lane  and  bus  operation-related  photo
   enforcement provisions

   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-c  of  the
 vehicle  and traffic law, as amended by section 6 of part NNN of chapter
 59 of the laws of 2018, is amended to read as follows:
   1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the city of New York is
 hereby authorized and empowered to establish a bus rapid transit program
 imposing monetary liability on the owner of a vehicle for failure of  an
 operator  thereof  to  comply with bus lane restrictions in such city in
 accordance with the provisions  of  this  section.  The  New  York  city
 department  of  transportation  or  applicable  mass transit agency, for
 purposes of the implementation of such program, shall operate  bus  lane
 photo devices only within designated bus lanes in such bus rapid transit
 program.  Such  bus  lane  photo devices may be stationary or mobile and
 shall be activated at locations determined by such department of  trans-
 portation  and/or on buses selected by such department of transportation
 in consultation with the applicable mass transit  agency,  however,  the
 applicable  mass  transit  agency  may  also  install no less than fifty
 mobile bus lane photo devices on buses operating on designated bus lanes
 in such bus rapid transit program below 96th street in  the  borough  of
 Manhattan,  in  consultation with the New York city department of trans-
 portation for the purposes of this section; PROVIDED, HOWEVER,  THAT  NO
 SUCH  BUS  LANE  PHOTO  DEVICES  SHALL BE INSTALLED OR OPERATED ON 116TH
 STREET IN THE BOROUGH OF  MANHATTAN  BETWEEN  RIVERSIDE  DRIVE  AND  FDR
 DRIVE.
   § 2. Paragraph 1 of subdivision (a) of section 1111-c-1 of the vehicle
 and  traffic  law, as added by section 1 of part MM of chapter 56 of the
 laws of 2023, is amended to read as follows:
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 S. 10717                            2
 
   1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the city of New York is
 hereby authorized and empowered to  establish  a  demonstration  program
 imposing  monetary liability on the owner of a vehicle for failure of an
 operator thereof to comply  with  bus  operation-related  traffic  regu-
 lations, in accordance with the provisions of this section. The New York
 city department of transportation and/or applicable mass transit agency,
 for  purposes  of  the implementation of such program, shall operate bus
 operation-related photo devices that may be  stationary  or  mobile  and
 shall  be activated at locations determined by such department of trans-
 portation and/or on buses selected by such department of  transportation
 in  consultation  with  the  applicable  mass  transit agency; PROVIDED,
 HOWEVER, THAT NO SUCH  BUS  OPERATION-RELATED  PHOTO  DEVICES  SHALL  BE
 INSTALLED  OR  OPERATED  ON  116TH  STREET  IN  THE BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN
 BETWEEN RIVERSIDE DRIVE AND FDR DRIVE.
   § 3. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
 have  become  a  law;  provided  however that the amendments to sections
 1111-c and 1111-c-1 of the vehicle and traffic law made by sections  one
 and  two  of  this  act shall not affect the repeal of such sections and
 shall be deemed repealed therewith.