Bill Text: NY S04197 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Increases from 50 to 100, the number of intersections at which the county of Suffolk is authorized to install and operate traffic-control signal photo violation-monitoring devices.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-04-26 - RECOMMIT, ENACTING CLAUSE STRICKEN [S04197 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-S04197-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         4197
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                    March 23, 2011
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       Introduced  by  Sen. JOHNSON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
       AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to  authorizing
         the  county  of  Suffolk to install and operate traffic-control signal
         photo violation-monitoring devices at up to one hundred intersections
         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-b of the
    2  vehicle and traffic law, as added by chapter 23 of the laws of 2009,  is
    3  amended to red as follows:
    4    1.  Notwithstanding  any other provision of law, the county of Suffolk
    5  is hereby authorized and empowered to adopt and amend  a  local  law  or
    6  ordinance establishing a demonstration program imposing monetary liabil-
    7  ity  on  the  owner  of  a vehicle for failure of an operator thereof to
    8  comply with traffic-control indications in  such  county  in  accordance
    9  with  the  provisions  of this section. Such demonstration program shall
   10  empower such county to install and operate traffic-control signal  photo
   11  violation-monitoring  devices at no more than [fifty] ONE HUNDRED inter-
   12  sections within and under the jurisdiction of such  county  at  any  one
   13  time.
   14    S  2. This act shall take effect immediately, provided that the amend-
   15  ments to paragraph 1 of subdivision (a) of section 1111-b of the vehicle
   16  and traffic law, made by section one of this act, shall not  affect  the
   17  expiration  and  repeal of such section pursuant to section 9 of chapter
   18  23 of the laws of 2009 as  amended,  and  shall  expire  and  be  deemed
   19  repealed therewith.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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