Bill Text: NY A06155 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Permits signs, placards or other displays to provide notice that school bus photo violation monitoring systems are in use.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2021-08-02 - signed chap.325 [A06155 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-A06155-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6155--A 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY March 10, 2021 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. MAGNARELLI -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to permitting signs, placards or other displays to provide notice that school bus photo violation monitoring systems are in use; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 375 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by 2 adding a new subdivision 21-j to read as follows: 3 21-j. (a) Every school bus which is owned and operated by a school 4 district or which is privately owned and operated for compensation under 5 contract with such district may be equipped with signs, placards or 6 other displays giving notice to approaching motor vehicle operators that 7 school bus photo violation monitoring systems are in use, provided that 8 such school district has entered an agreement pursuant to section twen- 9 ty-two of chapter one hundred forty-five of the laws of two thousand 10 nineteen with a county, city, town or village which has established a 11 demonstration program pursuant to section eleven hundred seventy-four-a 12 of this chapter imposing monetary liability on the owner of a vehicle 13 for failure of an operator thereof to comply with section eleven hundred 14 seventy-four of this chapter. Such signs, placards or other displays 15 shall comply with the rules and regulations promulgated by the commis- 16 sioner pursuant to paragraph (b) of this subdivision. 17 (b) The commissioner shall promulgate rules and regulations for the 18 content, size and placement on school buses of a sign, placard or other 19 display, as authorized pursuant to paragraph (a) of this subdivision, 20 giving notice to approaching motor vehicle operators that school bus 21 photo violation monitoring systems are in use. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD09788-02-1A. 6155--A 2 1 § 2. Severability. If any clause, sentence, subdivision, paragraph, 2 section or part of this act be adjudged by any court of competent juris- 3 diction to be invalid, or if any federal agency determines in writing 4 that this act would render New York state ineligible for the receipt of 5 federal funds, such judgment or written determination shall not affect, 6 impair or invalidate the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its 7 operation to the clause, sentence, subdivision, paragraph, section or 8 part thereof directly involved in the controversy in which such judgment 9 or written determination shall have been rendered. 10 § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 11 have become a law and shall expire and be deemed repealed on the same 12 date and in the same manner as chapter 145 of the laws of 2019; 13 provided, further, that this act shall expire and be deemed repealed if 14 any federal agency determines in writing that this act would render New 15 York state ineligible for the receipt of federal funds or any court of 16 competent jurisdiction finally determines that this act would render New 17 York state out of compliance with federal law or regulation; provided 18 further, that the commissioner of transportation or commissioner of 19 motor vehicles shall notify the legislative bill drafting commission 20 upon the occurrence of the provisions of this act in order that the 21 commission may maintain an accurate and timely effective data base of 22 the official text of the laws of the state of New York in furtherance of 23 effectuating the provisions of section 44 of the legislative law and 24 section 70-b of the public officers law. Effective immediately, the 25 addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary 26 for the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized 27 to be made and completed on or before such effective date.
