Bill Text: NY A05259 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Increases the number of traffic-control signal photo violation-monitoring devices that may be installed in New York city to six hundred intersections; extends certain provisions authorizing photo-monitoring devices until December 1, 2027.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 33-1)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-06-07 - rules report cal.597 [A05259 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A05259-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         5259--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      March 7, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. DINOWITZ, GONZALEZ-ROJAS, SEAWRIGHT, BURDICK,
          EPSTEIN, COLTON, GLICK, SIMONE,  CUNNINGHAM,  SIMON,  CARROLL,  AUBRY,
          BICHOTTE HERMELYN,  JACKSON,  GIBBS,  ALVAREZ,  BURGOS, ARDILA, CHANG,
          LEE, TAYLOR, DAVILA, TAPIA, L. ROSENTHAL, BORES, RAJKUMAR, DAIS, CRUZ,
          DE LOS SANTOS, RAGA, DICKENS, BENEDETTO, ANDERSON  --  Multi-Sponsored
          by  --  M.  of  A. REYES -- read once and referred to the Committee on
          Transportation -- recommitted to the Committee  on  Transportation  in
          accordance  with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill
          amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  commit-
          tee

        AN  ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law and the administrative code
          of the city of New York, in  relation  to  increasing  the  number  of
          intersections  where traffic-control signal photo violation-monitoring
          systems may be installed and operated; to amend  chapter  746  of  the
          laws of 1988, amending the vehicle and traffic law, the general munic-
          ipal  law  and the public officers law relating to the civil liability
          of vehicle owners for traffic control signal violations,  in  relation
          to  extending the effectiveness thereof; and to amend local law number
          46 of the city of New York for the year 1989, amending the administra-
          tive code of the city of New York relating to civil liability of vehi-
          cle owners for traffic  control  signal  violations,  in  relation  to
          extending the effectiveness thereof

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Paragraph 1 of subdivision (a) of  section  1111-a  of  the
     2  vehicle  and  traffic law, as amended by chapter 18 of the laws of 2009,
     3  is amended to read as follows:
     4    1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, each city with a  popu-
     5  lation  of  one  million  or  more is hereby authorized and empowered to
     6  adopt and amend a local law or ordinance  establishing  a  demonstration
     7  program  imposing monetary liability on the owner of a vehicle for fail-

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06936-10-4

        A. 5259--A                          2

     1  ure of an operator thereof to comply with traffic-control indications in
     2  such city in accordance with the provisions of this section. Such demon-
     3  stration program shall empower a city to install  and  operate  traffic-
     4  control  signal photo violation-monitoring devices at no more than [one]
     5  six hundred [fifty] intersections within such city at any one time.
     6    § 2. Paragraph 1 of subdivision (a) of section 19-210 of the  adminis-
     7  trative  code  of  the city of New York, as amended by chapter 18 of the
     8  laws of 2009, is amended to read as follows:
     9    1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the parking  violations
    10  bureau  is  hereby authorized and empowered to establish a demonstration
    11  program imposing monetary liability on the owner of a vehicle for  fail-
    12  ure of an operator thereof to comply with traffic-control indications in
    13  accordance with the provisions of this section. The department of trans-
    14  portation,  for  purposes  of  implementation  of such program, shall be
    15  authorized to install and operate traffic-control  signal  photo  viola-
    16  tion-monitoring devices at no more than [one] six hundred [fifty] inter-
    17  sections at any one time.
    18    § 3. Section 17 of chapter 746 of the laws of 1988, amending the vehi-
    19  cle  and traffic law, the general municipal law, and the public officers
    20  law relating to the  civil  liability  of  vehicle  owners  for  traffic
    21  control signal violations, as amended by section 5 of part TT of chapter
    22  58 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
    23    §  17.  This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
    24  have become a  law;  provided,  however,  that  sections  four,  twelve,
    25  fifteen and sixteen shall [remain in full force and effect until] expire
    26  and  be deemed repealed December 1, [2024 when upon such date the amend-
    27  ments and provisions made by this act shall be  deemed  repealed]  2027;
    28  provided,  however,  any  such  local laws as may be enacted pursuant to
    29  this act shall remain in full force and effect only until the expiration
    30  on December 1, [2024] 2027.
    31    § 4. Section 2 of local law number 46 of the city of New York for  the
    32  year  1989  amending  the  administrative  code  of the city of New York
    33  relating to civil liability of vehicle owners for traffic control signal
    34  violations, as amended by section 6 of part TT of chapter 58 of the laws
    35  of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
    36    § 2. This local law shall take effect immediately and shall expire  on
    37  December 1, [2024] 2027.
    38    §  5.  This  act shall take effect immediately; provided that sections
    39  one and two of this act shall take effect on the sixtieth day  after  it
    40  shall  have  become a law; provided further however, that the amendments
    41  to section 1111-a of the vehicle and traffic law made by section one  of
    42  this act shall not affect the repeal of such section and shall be deemed
    43  to  be repealed therewith; and provided, further, that the amendments to
    44  section 19-210 of the administrative code of the city of New  York  made
    45  by  section  two  of  this  act  shall not affect the expiration of such
    46  section and shall be deemed to expire therewith. Effective  immediately,
    47  any rules or regulations necessary for the implementation of this act on
    48  its  effective  date  shall  be  promulgated on or before such effective
    49  date.
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