Bill Text: NY A01661 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires signage alerting motorists of red light cameras in the areas where red light camera demonstration programs have been authorized.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to transportation [A01661 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A01661-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1661
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 16, 2019
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        Introduced by M. of A. ABINANTI -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Transportation
        AN  ACT  to  amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to requiring
          signage alerting motorists of red light cameras; and providing for the
          repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.    The  vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a new
     2  section 1111-f to read as follows:
     3    § 1111-f. Red light camera signage required. Any city or county  oper-
     4  ating  a  demonstration  program  that imposes monetary liability on the
     5  owner of a vehicle for the failure of an operator thereof to comply with
     6  traffic-control indications in such city  or  county  pursuant  to  this
     7  article  shall  install  and maintain signage in each direction of every
     8  intersection where a traffic-control signal  photo  violation-monitoring
     9  device is in operation. Such signage shall advise that a traffic-control
    10  signal  photo  violation-monitoring  device  is operating at such inter-
    11  section, and shall be in accordance with the state manual and specifica-
    12  tions for a uniform system of traffic control  devices  as  provided  in
    13  section sixteen hundred eighty of this chapter. For the purposes of this
    14  section,  the  term  "traffic-control  signal photo violation-monitoring
    15  device" shall mean a vehicle sensor installed  to  work  in  conjunction
    16  with  a  traffic-control signal which automatically produces two or more
    17  photographs, two or more microphotographs, a videotape or other recorded
    18  images of each vehicle at the time it is used or operated  in  violation
    19  of subdivision (d) of section eleven hundred eleven of this article.
    20    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    21  it  shall  have become a law and shall expire December 1, 2021 when upon
    22  such date the provisions of this act shall be deemed repealed. Effective
    23  immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or  regu-
    24  lation  necessary  for  the  implementation of this act on its effective
    25  date are authorized to be made and completed on or before such date.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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