Bill Text: NY A01947 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prevents owners or operators of automatic license plate reader systems from requiring that police agencies meet a minimum threshold of violations or arrests as part of a lease agreement or as part of an agreement to allow the police agency to utilize the automatic license plate reader system.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to consumer affairs and protection [A01947 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A01947-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1947
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 18, 2019
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        Introduced  by M. of A. GUNTHER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Consumer Affairs and Protection
        AN ACT to amend the general business  law,  in  relation  to  agreements
          regarding automatic license plate reader systems
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
     2  397-b to read as follows:
     3    § 397-b. Agreements regarding automatic license plate reader  systems.
     4  No  owner  or operator of an automatic license plate reader system shall
     5  require a police agency, as defined  in  subdivision  eight  of  section
     6  eight hundred thirty-five of the executive law, to meet a minimum thres-
     7  hold of violations or arrests as part of a lease agreement or as part of
     8  an  agreement  to  allow  the  police  agency  to utilize such automatic
     9  license plate reader system. For purposes of  this  section,  "automatic
    10  license  plate  reader system" shall mean a system of one or more mobile
    11  or fixed high speed cameras used in combination with computer algorithms
    12  to convert images of license plates into computer-readable data.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01631-01-9