Bill Text: NY A08569 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires signs providing notice of the use of a photo speed violation monitoring system to be primarily yellow and be placed within fifty feet of a photo speed violation monitoring system.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-02-07 - print number 8569a [A08569 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A08569-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         8569--A

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                   September 13, 2019
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        Introduced by M. of A. REILLY -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Transportation -- recommitted to the Committee on Transportation in
          accordance  with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill
          amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  commit-
          tee

        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to requirements
          for signs providing notice of the use of a photo speed violation moni-
          toring system

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Paragraph 2 of subdivision (a) of  section  1180-b  of  the
     2  vehicle  and  traffic law, as amended by chapter 30 of the laws of 2019,
     3  is amended to read as follows:
     4    2. No photo speed violation monitoring  system  shall  be  used  in  a
     5  school speed zone unless (i) on the day it is to be used it has success-
     6  fully  passed a self-test of its functions; and (ii) it has undergone an
     7  annual calibration check performed pursuant to paragraph  four  of  this
     8  subdivision.  The  city shall install signs giving notice to approaching
     9  motor vehicle operators that a photo speed violation  monitoring  system
    10  is  in  use,  in  conformance  with  standards established in the MUTCD.
    11  Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, such  signs  shall
    12  be primarily yellow, indicate that there is a school speed zone and that
    13  a  photo  speed  violation  monitoring  system  is  being used for photo
    14  enforcement, and shall be placed within fifty feet in  either  direction
    15  of a photo speed violation monitoring system.
    16    §  2.  Paragraph 2 of subdivision (a) of section 1180-d of the vehicle
    17  and traffic law, as added by chapter 148 of the laws of 2019, is amended
    18  to read as follows:
    19    2. No photo speed violation monitoring  system  shall  be  used  in  a
    20  school speed zone unless (i) on the day it is to be used it has success-
    21  fully  passed a self-test of its functions; and (ii) it has undergone an

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  annual calibration check performed pursuant to paragraph  four  of  this
     2  subdivision.  The  city  shall  install signs giving notice that a photo
     3  speed violation monitoring system is in use to  be  mounted  on  advance
     4  warning  signs notifying motor vehicle operators of such upcoming school
     5  speed zone and/or on speed limit signs  applicable  within  such  school
     6  speed  zone,  in  conformance  with  standards established in the MUTCD.
     7  Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, such signs  giving
     8  notice that a photo speed violation monitoring system is in use shall be
     9  primarily  yellow, indicate that there is a school speed zone and that a
    10  photo speed violation monitoring system is being used for photo enforce-
    11  ment, and shall be placed within fifty feet in  either  direction  of  a
    12  photo speed violation monitoring system.
    13    §  3.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
    14  have become a law; provided, however, that the  amendments  to  sections
    15  1180-b  and  1180-d  of the vehicle and traffic law made by sections one
    16  and two of this act shall not affect the repeal  of  such  sections  and
    17  shall be deemed repealed therewith.