Bill Text: NY A07901 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Permits the installation of cameras on traffic lights in the town of Wallkill; relates to owner liability for failure to comply with traffic control indications.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-03-14 - print number 7901a [A07901 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A07901-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         7901--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      May 29, 2015
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        Introduced  by M. of A. GUNTHER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Transportation -- recommitted to the Committee  on  Transporta-
          tion  in  accordance  with  Assembly  Rule  3,  sec.  2  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law and  the  general  municipal
          law,  in relation to owner liability for failure of operator to comply
          with traffic-control indications; 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. Owner liability for  failure  of  operator  to  comply  with
     4  traffic-control  indications. (a) 1. Notwithstanding any other provision
     5  of law, the town of Wallkill, in the county of Orange is hereby  author-
     6  ized  and  empowered  to adopt and amend a local law or ordinance estab-
     7  lishing a demonstration program imposing monetary liability on the owner
     8  of a vehicle for failure of an operator thereof to comply with  traffic-
     9  control  indications  in  such town in accordance with the provisions of
    10  this section. Such demonstration program  shall  empower  such  town  to
    11  install  and  operate  traffic-control signal photo violation-monitoring
    12  devices at no more than four intersections within such town at  any  one
    13  time.
    14    2.  Such demonstration program shall utilize necessary technologies to
    15  ensure, to the extent practicable, that  photographs  produced  by  such
    16  traffic-control  signal  photo  violation-monitoring  systems  shall not
    17  include images that identify the driver, the passengers, or the contents
    18  of the vehicle. Provided, however, that no notice  of  liability  issued
    19  pursuant  to this section shall be dismissed solely because a photograph
    20  or photographs allow for the identification of the contents of  a  vehi-
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10903-05-6