Bill Text: NY S06913 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Eliminates the time of day limitations on the use of photo speed violation monitoring systems in school zones in the city of New York; eliminates the expiration and repeal of provisions of law authorizing the use of photo speed violation monitoring systems in school zones in such city.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-04-06 - PRINT NUMBER 6913A [S06913 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S06913-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6913--A
                    IN SENATE
                                      March 4, 2016
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        Introduced  by  Sen. PERALTA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation --  commit-
          tee  discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recom-
          mitted to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to  eliminating
          the time of day restrictions on the use of photo speed violation moni-
          toring  systems  in school zones in the city of New York; and to amend
          chapter 189 of the laws of 2013 amending the vehicle and  traffic  law
          and  the public officers law relating to establishing in a city with a
          population of one million or more a demonstration program implementing
          speed violation monitoring systems in school speed zones by  means  of
          photo devices, in relation to eliminating the expiration and repeal of
          the provisions thereof
          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  1180-b  of  the
     2  vehicle  and  traffic law, as amended by chapter 43 of the laws of 2014,
     3  is amended to read as follows:
     4    1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the city of New York is
     5  hereby authorized to establish a demonstration program imposing monetary
     6  liability on the owner of a vehicle for failure of an  operator  thereof
     7  to comply with posted maximum speed limits in a school speed zone within
     8  the city (i) when a school speed limit is in effect as provided in para-
     9  graphs  one  and two of subdivision (c) of section eleven hundred eighty
    10  of this article or (ii)  when  other  speed  limits  are  in  effect  as
    11  provided  in  subdivision (b), (d), (f) or (g) of section eleven hundred
    12  eighty of this article [during the following times: (A) on  school  days
    13  during  school  hours  and one hour before and one hour after the school
    14  day, and (B) a period during student activities at the school and up  to
    15  thirty  minutes  immediately before and up to thirty minutes immediately
    16  after such student activities]. Such demonstration program shall empower
    17  the city to install photo speed violation monitoring systems  within  no
    18  more  than  one  hundred forty school speed zones within the city at any
    19  one time and to operate such systems within  such  zones  (iii)  when  a
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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