Bill Text: NY A09696 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the fine schedule for owner liability for failure of a vehicle operator to stop for a school bus displaying a red visual signal and stop-arm.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 9-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-03 - referred to transportation [A09696 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A09696-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          9696

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      April 3, 2024
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        Introduced by M. of A. E. BROWN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Transportation

        AN  ACT  to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to the amount
          of owner liability for failure of a vehicle operator  to  stop  for  a
          school bus displaying a red visual signal and stop-arm

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision (e) of section 1174-a of the vehicle and  traf-
     2  fic law, as added by chapter 145 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read
     3  as follows:
     4    (e)  An  owner  liable  for  a violation of subdivision (a) of section
     5  eleven hundred seventy-four of this article pursuant to a local  law  or
     6  ordinance  adopted pursuant to this section shall be liable for monetary
     7  penalties in accordance with a schedule of fines and penalties to be set
     8  forth in such local law or ordinance, except that if a city by local law
     9  has authorized the adjudication of such owner  liability  by  a  parking
    10  violations  bureau,  such  schedule shall be promulgated by such bureau.
    11  The liability of the owner pursuant to this section shall be two hundred
    12  fifty dollars for [a first] each violation[,  two  hundred  seventy-five
    13  dollars  for  a  second  violation both of which were committed within a
    14  period of eighteen months, and three hundred  dollars  for  a  third  or
    15  subsequent  violation  all  of  which  were committed within a period of
    16  eighteen months]; provided, however, that such local  law  or  ordinance
    17  may  provide  for  an  additional  penalty  not in excess of twenty-five
    18  dollars for each violation for the failure to respond  to  a  notice  of
    19  liability within the prescribed time period.
    20    §  2.  This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
    21  the amendments to subdivision (e) of section 1174-a of the  vehicle  and
    22  traffic  law made by section one of this act shall not affect the repeal
    23  of such section and shall be deemed repealed therewith.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15066-01-4