Bill Text: NY A06892 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Increases the number of traffic light cameras permitted in New York city to 250.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - referred to transportation [A06892 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A06892-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         6892
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     April 5, 2011
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       Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Transportation
       AN  ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law and the administrative code
         of the city of New York, in relation to certain traffic-control  indi-
         cations
         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-a  of  the
    2  vehicle  and  traffic law, as amended by chapter 18 of the laws of 2009,
    3  is amended to read as follows:
    4    1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, each city with a  popu-
    5  lation  of  one  million  or  more is hereby authorized and empowered to
    6  adopt and amend a local law or ordinance  establishing  a  demonstration
    7  program  imposing monetary liability on the owner of a vehicle for fail-
    8  ure of an operator thereof to comply with traffic-control indications in
    9  such city in accordance with the provisions of this section. Such demon-
   10  stration program shall empower a city to install  and  operate  traffic-
   11  control  signal photo violation-monitoring devices at no more than [one]
   12  TWO hundred fifty intersections within such city at any one time.
   13    S 2. Paragraph 1 of subdivision (a) of section 19-210 of the  adminis-
   14  trative  code  of  the city of New York, as amended by chapter 18 of the
   15  laws of 2009, is amended to read as follows:
   16    1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the parking  violations
   17  bureau  is  hereby authorized and empowered to establish a demonstration
   18  program imposing monetary liability on the owner of a vehicle for  fail-
   19  ure of an operator thereof to comply with traffic-control indications in
   20  accordance with the provisions of this section. The department of trans-
   21  portation,  for  purposes  of  implementation  of such program, shall be
   22  authorized to install and operate traffic-control  signal  photo  viola-
   23  tion-monitoring  devices  at no more than [one] TWO hundred fifty inter-
   24  sections at any one time.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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    1    S 3. This act shall take effect immediately, provided,  however,  that
    2  the  amendments  to  paragraph 1 of subdivision (a) of section 1111-a of
    3  the vehicle and traffic law made by section one of this  act  shall  not
    4  affect  the  repeal  of such section and shall be deemed repealed there-
    5  with;  and  provided,  further,  that  the  amendments to paragraph 1 of
    6  subdivision (a) of section 19-210 of the administrative code of the city
    7  of New York made by section two of this act shall not affect the expira-
    8  tion of such section and shall be deemed to expire therewith.