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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