Bill Text: NY A06453 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

---

Bill Title: Authorizes the city of New York to install photo speed violation monitoring systems in every school zone in such city; eliminates the expiration and repeal of the provisions of law authorizing such city to install and operate such systems.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to transportation [A06453 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A06453-Introduced.html

---

                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          6453
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      March 7, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  DenDEKKER  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Transportation
        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to  authorizing
          the  city  of  New  York  to  install photo speed violation monitoring
          systems in every school speed zone in such city; and to amend  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  popu-
          lation  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 eliminating the expiration and repeal of
          the provisions 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  1180-b  of  the
     2  vehicle  and  traffic law, as amended by chapter 43 of the laws of 2014,
     3  is amended to read as follows:
     4    1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the city of New York is
     5  hereby authorized to establish a demonstration program imposing monetary
     6  liability on the owner of a vehicle for failure of an  operator  thereof
     7  to comply with posted maximum speed limits in a school speed zone within
     8  the city (i) when a school speed limit is in effect as provided in para-
     9  graphs  one  and two of subdivision (c) of section eleven hundred eighty
    10  of this article or (ii)  when  other  speed  limits  are  in  effect  as
    11  provided  in  subdivision (b), (d), (f) or (g) of section eleven hundred
    12  eighty of this article during the following times: (A)  on  school  days
    13  during  school  hours  and one hour before and one hour after the school
    14  day, and (B) a period during student activities at the school and up  to
    15  thirty  minutes  immediately before and up to thirty minutes immediately
    16  after such student activities. Such demonstration program shall  empower
    17  the  city to install photo speed violation monitoring systems within [no
    18  more than one hundred forty] all school speed zones within the city  [at

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00137-01-7
        A. 6453                             2

     1  any one time] and to operate such systems within such zones (iii) when a
     2  school speed limit is in effect as provided in paragraphs one and two of
     3  subdivision (c) of section eleven hundred eighty of this article or (iv)
     4  when  other  speed  limits are in effect as provided in subdivision (b),
     5  (d), (f) or (g) of section eleven hundred eighty of this article  during
     6  the following times: (A) on school days during school hours and one hour
     7  before  and  one  hour  after  the  school  day, and (B) a period during
     8  student activities at the school and up to  thirty  minutes  immediately
     9  before  and  up  to thirty minutes immediately after such student activ-
    10  ities. [In selecting a school speed zone in which to install and operate
    11  a photo speed violation  monitoring  system,  the  city  shall  consider
    12  criteria  including,  but  not limited to the speed data, crash history,
    13  and the roadway geometry applicable to such school speed zone.]
    14    § 2. Paragraph 1 of subdivision (a) of section 1180-b of  the  vehicle
    15  and traffic law, as added by chapter 189 of the laws of 2013, is amended
    16  to read as follows:
    17    1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the city of New York is
    18  hereby authorized to establish a demonstration program imposing monetary
    19  liability  on  the owner of a vehicle for failure of an operator thereof
    20  to comply with posted maximum speed limits in a school speed zone within
    21  the city (i) when a school speed limit is in effect as provided in para-
    22  graphs one and two of subdivision (c) of section eleven  hundred  eighty
    23  of  this  article  or  (ii)  when  other  speed  limits are in effect as
    24  provided in subdivision (b), (d), (f) or (g) of section  eleven  hundred
    25  eighty  of  this  article during the following times: (A) on school days
    26  during school hours and one hour before and one hour  after  the  school
    27  day,  and (B) a period during student activities at the school and up to
    28  thirty minutes immediately before and up to thirty  minutes  immediately
    29  after  such student activities. Such demonstration program shall empower
    30  the city to install photo speed violation monitoring systems within  [no
    31  more  than  twenty]  all  school speed zones within the city [at any one
    32  time] and to operate such systems within such zones (iii) when a  school
    33  speed limit is in effect as provided in paragraphs one and two of subdi-
    34  vision (c) of section eleven hundred eighty of this article or (iv) when
    35  other  speed  limits  are in effect as provided in subdivision (b), (d),
    36  (f) or (g) of section eleven hundred eighty of this article  during  the
    37  following  times:  (A)  on  school days during school hours and one hour
    38  before and one hour after the  school  day,  and  (B)  a  period  during
    39  student  activities  at  the school and up to thirty minutes immediately
    40  before and up to thirty minutes immediately after  such  student  activ-
    41  ities. [In selecting a school speed zone in which to install and operate
    42  a  photo  speed  violation  monitoring  system,  the city shall consider
    43  criteria including, but not limited to the speed  data,  crash  history,
    44  and the roadway geometry applicable to such school speed zone.]
    45    § 3. The opening paragraph of section 15 of chapter 189 of the laws of
    46  2013  amending  the  vehicle and traffic law and the public officers law
    47  relating to establishing in a city with a population of one  million  or
    48  more  a  demonstration  program  implementing speed violation monitoring
    49  systems in school speed zones by means of photo devices  is  amended  to
    50  read as follows:
    51    This  act  shall  take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall have
    52  become a law [and shall expire 5 years after such  effective  date  when
    53  upon  such  date  the  provisions of this act shall be deemed repealed];
    54  [and] provided [further] that any rules necessary for the implementation
    55  of this act on its effective date shall be promulgated on or before such
    56  effective date, provided further that:
        A. 6453                             3
     1    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately, except that  section  one
     2  of  this  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall have
     3  become a law; provided that the amendments to paragraph 1 of subdivision
     4  (a) of section 1180-b of the vehicle and traffic law,  made  by  section
     5  one  of  this act, shall not affect the expiration and reversion of such
     6  paragraph pursuant to section 12 of chapter 43 of the laws of  2014,  as
     7  amended, when upon such date section two of this act shall take effect.